Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 47763 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 126.01 LABIATAE Leonotis leonurus | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | South Africa | TDWG Region | South Africa | ||
| Parts Held | Flowers | Geography Description | Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope, Southern Africa, Africa | ||
| Uses | FlowersUse: MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Skin/Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 16 D 7 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Beyers VJx0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Exhibitor V J Beyers Farm 'Onrust river' P.O. Hermanus Peters Fontein Division Caledon. South Africa. Exhib no. 13. Colonial name Wild Dagga or leonotus leonurus R. Br. Locality Exhibitors Farm. Properties Used for cleansing the blood - chr, onic cutaneous eruptions - leprosy - purgative - and emmenagogue in amenorrhoea. Vide Dr Papps Flora Capensis Medica page. 32. Tube of flowers from Dr Dobbin. Label source: This plant, the Wild Dagga, is, on account of its beautiful flowers a fine garden, ornament. It grows wild in the sandy Cape Flats, and often at the road side. It has a peculiar scent and a nauseous taste, and seems to produce narcotic effects if incautiously used. It is employed in the form of decoctions in cronic cutaneous eruptions, , and may be tried even in cases of Leprosy. The usual dose is a wine glass full 3 or 4 times a day. The Hottentots are particularly fond of this plant, and smoke it instead of tobacco, and take a decoction of its leaves as a strong purgative; they likewi, se give it as an emmenagogue in amenorrhoea. It the eastern districts the Leonotis ovata is used for the same purpose. Leonotis leonurus is used as an antidote to snake bite. It is the plant which European practitioners have made their celebrated preparat, ions. It is a tall plant grown to the height of 4 to 6 feet. Its leaves are oblong, rather lance shaped, and it may easily be recognised by the numerous whorls on its stem of light red or orange flowers. The Kaffir name Umfinca-fincane is taken from the s, ugar birds sipping the sweets from the bottom of its long trumpet shaped corolla. Before the mouth of the corolla opens, which it does when the stamens are mature, the nectar is intensly bitter, but at the moment of opening, the sweetness is developed. It, is the Fuigo tribal remedy and has been known to the Fuigo best doctors for ages. The Kaffir national remedy is not this plant but the Teucriun africanum. (Andrew Smith MA a contribution to South African Materic Medica, Lovedale, 1885.) | ||||