Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 50142 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 106.00 APOCYNACEAE Alstonia scholaris | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | BarkUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 1 A 9 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 01/06/1869x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Presented by curator India Museum I think this bark must be mixed. I have found 3 pieces with rosette ..?.. only whereas A.scholaris should have abundant prisms. Most of the pieces have abundant prisims. Alstonia - The bark of A.scholaris,, R.Brown and of A.constricta, F. von Mueller. Bitter, tonic, astringent and antiperiodic. The first contains ditain from which the alkaloid ditin (end of word missing) may be obtained ; the second contains the alkaloids alston... and ....rogenine, porph, yrine, porphyrosine and alstonidine. | ||||