Herb - Specimen details
Catalogue Number: 48967 | |||||
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No Image | Plant Name | 109.01 GENTIANACEAE Centaurium roxburghii | Entry Book Number | ||
Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | Jammu-Kashmir, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, Kashmir | ||
Uses | HerbUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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Notes: | Label source: Local name Chota Chirayta - A very delicate little plant, from 4 to 10 inches high, appearing in cultivated ground after the rains. This year, owing to want of rain, it is very scarce. The root is small and fibrous, sparingly branched ; t, he stem quadrangular and winged ; lower leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, those on the stem linear-acuminate ; cymes dichotomous ; flowers bright pink, starlike ; capsules oblong, mucronate, 1/4 of an inch long, dehiscing, 2 celled, covered by the long sepa, ls, and the inflated silver-paper-like tube ofthe corolla. The plant is a good bitter, and may be found useful occasionally when Chiretta is scarce or dear, but from its small size, it is not likely to compete with that drug as a commercial article. Dym, ock Pharm Journ. | ||||
Determinations: | 109.01 GENTIANACEAE Centaurium roxburghii (G.Don) Druce  109.01 GENTIANACEAE Erythraea roxburghii G.Don |