Leaves and stems - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 46368 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 122.00 ACANTHACEAE Justicia gendarussa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Leaves and stems | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves and stems | Geography Description | Bombay | ||
| Uses | Leaves and stemsUse: 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 young shoots have a smooth, green, or purple bark; from the joints, which are somwehat tumid, spring secondary shoots. The leaves are opposite, short petioled, lanceolar, obtuse, frequently a little scalloped, smooth; nerve and veins pu, rple, or green according to the variety, from 3 to 6 inches long, and from 1/2 to 1 inch broard. Spikes terminal, erect; flowers dirty white, spotted with purple. The odour of the plant when crushed is ferny, it tastes peculiar, and not disagreeable. I, ts medicinal properties are noticed in the Pharmacopia of India. In Bombay it is a well known edging plant for flower beds. When cultivated for this purpose it is stunted and the leaves are seldom more than 3 inches long. I have never known it to be used, medicinally. Dymock. | ||||