Biris or Native Cigarettes - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 50614 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 102.00 EBENACEAE Diospyros tomentosum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Biris or Native Cigarettes | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Pakistan | TDWG Region | Pakistan | ||
| Parts Held | Biris or Native Cigarettes | Geography Description | Pakistan | ||
| Uses | Biris or Native CigarettesUse: SOCIAL USES - Smoking Materials/Drugs User: Man | TDWG use | SOCIAL USES - Smoking Materials/Drugs | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Muzaffar Dr SW | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1952 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Either D.tomentosum or D.melanoxylon Opuscular source: Dr Houes.and Mr Harrison, (1) The leaf from Scotland Yard is from the same or a closely allied species as the leaf from Pakistan (Dr SD (SW on jar) Muzzaffar) (2) The leaf from Pakist, an is not that of Butea frondosa. The leaf of Butea frondosa has an entirely different type of mesophyll, and the ..?.. are of quite a different type. (3) Both (1) and (2) about agro microscopically units ? the leaf of Diospyros tomentosum from the Museum, . The leaf exhibits a distinctive type of unicellular 2-armed hair of which the arms may be equal or unequal in length. This type of hair is characteristic of numerous species of Diospyros. See 'Anatomy of the Dicotyledons.' CR Metcalfe 25.2.53. | ||||
| Determinations: | 102.00 EBENACEAE Diospyros melanoxylon 102.00 EBENACEAE Diospyros tomentosum | ||||