Roots - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48989 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 109.01 GENTIANACEAE Gentiana scabra | Entry Book Number | 74.1878 | |
| Artefact Name | Roots | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Roots | Geography Description | Japan | ||
| Uses | RootsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Christy T | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Rew-tang soh (20): Gentiana buergeri Miq. Syn. Rindo, So mokou Zouss. vol. IV. fig. 47; Sasa Rindo, Fr. et Sav. Vol I.p.323; Phonzou Zoufou, vol VIII.p.5. This drug consists of a short rhizome, giving off a number of brown roots about the t, hickness of a crow quill, and three or four inches long; these are strongly furrowed longitudinally. The transverse section of the rhizome is pale and spongy, the taste bitter and resembles that of gentian in character. It corresponds well with the specim, ens of 'Gentian' (Lung-tan-ts'au) in the collection of Chinese drugs presented to the Society by Dr Porter-Smith, but does not answer to his description og the drug. He refers it to Gentiana asclepiadea, and other species. G buergeri was, however, identif, ied from the Japanese description in the So moukou Zoussetz by Mr Takemura as being identical with Rew-tang soh. Gentiana buergeri is found in damp grassy places in Japan, and flowers in September and November. The name both in Chinese and Japanese hasthe, same meaning, viz, Dragon's-gall-herb, and is given by the Chinese, according to Dr Porter-Smith, to any intensely bitter plant. | ||||
| Determinations: | 109.01 GENTIANACEAE Gentiana scabra Bunge 109.01 GENTIANACEAE Gentiana buergeri Miq. | ||||