Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 52214 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 85.00 VALERIANACEAE Valeriana hardwickii | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | RootUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: This valerian has crooked roots about two inches long, and from a 1/4 inch in diam. of a dull brown colour, marked with transverse ridges, and thickly studded with circular prominent tubercles, to a few of which thick rootlets still remain, attached. The crown of the root is marked by a number of bracts; the lower end is blulnt; the root is very hard and tough, and the fractured surface greenish brown. Odour like valerian but much more powerful. Examined under the microscope the outer bar, k is seen to be composed of ten or twelve layers of compressed cells; within this is a starchy parenchyma, and next to it a cambium layer; within the cambium layer is a broken ring of vascular bundles, and lastlly, a starchy parenchyma thickly studded wit, h conglomerate masses of large cells, having greenish yellow contents of a resinous appearance. The drug is mostly used in Bombay as a perfume, but there can be little doubt that it would prove an efficient substitute for valerian. | ||||