Fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 61761 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 56.00 CONNARACEAE Jaundea pinnata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Niger | TDWG Region | Niger | ||
| Parts Held | Fruits | Geography Description | West Tropical Africa, South Nigeria | ||
| Uses | FruitsUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Miller Alex Bros & Co | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Welwitsch Drx0Dx0A | |||
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| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Opuscular source: The fruits of 'Sabongo' supply an aromatic drug which the natives of Hungo a country on the confines of the district of Golungo Alto, bring to the markets of Loanda; they are in much request by the negro population, who prepare from the, m various stomachic remedies, the fruits seem to be always threaded in the form of a rosary, and each rosary is sold at the price of from 50 to 150 milreis according to their greater or less abundance in the market. The fruits appeared to Welwitsch to bel, ong to a tree of the family of Connaraceae, but he had no opportunity of ascertaining their origin; the people of Hungo, however assured him that they were furnished by a large and very leafy tree. (See Welwitsch Synopse Explic p.29, to 65.) They probably, belong to Xylopicrum aethiopicum in Anonaceae & are represented in the collection by Coll Carp. 186 Fruits closely resembling 'Sabongo' (specimen in museum from Golungo Alto Welwitsch No. 32) were sent to Kew by Messrs Alex Miller Bros & Co; (coming orig, inally from S. Nigeria) July 8th & were determined by Mr C H Wright to be Byrsocarpus (Rourea) sp. probably B. venulosa Hiern. Label source: Foreign writing. | ||||