Leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 46266 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 125.01 VERBENACEAE Clerodendron infortunatum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves | Geography Description | Bombay | ||
| Uses | LeavesUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The leaves of this plant are noted in the 'Pharmacopoeia of India' as a cheap and efficient tonic and antiperiodic. They are also said to be used as a vermifuge. I have not seen them used medicinally in this part of the country, but there i, s no doubt that they are strongly bitter. The plant may be seen in many of the Bombay Gardens, and it grows wild in the Southern Concan. It is an under storey shrub 3 to 4 feet high. The leaves when fully grown are from 8 to 10 inches long, and from 7 to, 8 inches broad at the base, dark green, long petioled, rounded or ovate cordate, edges dentate, hairy on both sides; hairs white, jointed; venation very prominent on the under surface; odour disagreeble, taste bitter. The inflorescence forms large termina, l cross-armed panicles, which appear in March; flowers white streaked with pink, sweet-scented; after they have fallen the calyces enlarge and turn red. The plant grows freely and produces a large quanity of leaves. Dymock Pharm Journ. | ||||