Plant - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 67222 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 11.00 CRUCIFERAE Anastatica hierochuntica | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Plant | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Plant | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | PlantUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | There can be little doubt that the dried plant was first introduced into India by the Mahometans. It is kept in all druggist shops and is prescribed in difficult labour, being placed in water until it expands; the water is administered to the patient., The whole plant is used. It has a short woody stem, branched in a corymbose manner at the top; leaves obovate, the lower ones entire, the upper remotely toothed (seldom present in the dried specimens). The fruit forms spikes along the branches; it consi, sts of a short pouch with a strong curved beak, and two ear like projections on each side, which is divided into 4 cells, each cell containing a yellow concaveo-convex seed. The whole whole plant is tomatose and has hardly any taste. As seen in the shop, s it presents the appearance of a little ball of wicker work. It is imported from Syria by way of the Persian Gulf. Dr Dymock Pharm Journ. | ||||