Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 52732 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 84.01 RUBIACEAE Cinchona condaminea | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | BarkUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 07:00:00 | ||
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| Notes: | Note source: No photograph Label source: The larger and stouter quills (c) are richer in alkaloids, especially in cinchonine I conclude, therefore, that the old original 'crown bark', the fine Loxa of Uritusinga, was one which well merited its character, , on account of the quantity of alkaloids contained, which (taking the whole together, for the bark is rich in cinchonine, and calisaya is not) equals the sum total of alkaloids in some specimens of good calisaya bark. When the trunks or boughs are covere, d with multiplied layers of bark, according to the number of years they ahve attained, the external layers are without succulence, too dry, crusty, hardened and woody-fungus or shrivelled, and the internal parts have sap only in those parts by which the s, ap or nutritious juice, by means of which the plant grows, ascends or descends, and this smallest part of an old bark (cortezon) is the only useful part, since all the rest is not only useless but hurtful on account of styticity, or other contrary qualiti, es, which the bark (cortezas) have in their state of perfection, and when they are free from the multitude of extraneous bodies which have adhered to the thick barks (cortezones) for so many years. For this reason they have burnt, by order of the king, on, the heights of San Bernard of Madrid, considerable quantities of thick barks (cortezones). The barks of the young branches have not their juices in a state of so great activity as those of medium size which have arrived at the state of maturity, yet it i, s undeniable that they are more efficacious than the cortezones with so many outer coats, since they are free from so many thick and shrivelled coverings, formed by time and embrowned by the heat of the sun, increased by the lichens and other extraneous b, odies, and rotted by the unnumbered rains which have fallen upon them, as happens with boughs of other trees. Suplemento p.41 | ||||