Bugloss flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48874 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Echium plantagineum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Bugloss flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iran | TDWG Region | Iran | ||
| Parts Held | Bugloss flowers | Geography Description | Iran, Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, (Persia) | ||
| Uses | Bugloss flowersUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cowan Dr JM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: The corollas Gul-i-gao-zaban (teheran); the Persian name means 'Flowers of Cow's Tongue'; Flowers of Bugloss. Boiss. iv. 208 (K.B. 1931 p.316) According to Dr Aitchison: the drug, under this Persian name, has been supplied by Caccinia glauc, a Savi. and Onosma macrocephala DC. Schlimmer refers the origin of the drug to Anchusa italica but remarks that Druggists mixed it with the flowers of A.hybrida. Dymock says the leaves and flowers of Trichodesma molle DC. come to Bombay under this name (P, h. Ind. 2 521 & appendix) In Baluchistan the drug is referred to T.indicum R.Br. (IHB) in Scinde it has been obtained from T.zeylanica Br. It thus seems that Gul-i-gao-zaban is a generic name from the blue flowers of the borage family. The above species o, f Echium occurs in Asia Minor, Transcausasia and North Africa. The blue corollas from Teheran belong to this species ; there are 3 cm long and 12 mm wide at the throat, funnel shaped, almost bilabiate, and slightly hairy. The flowers are considered a very, good cardiac tonic, demulcent and laxative (C) | ||||