Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 53323 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 84.01 RUBIACEAE Hymenodictyon obovatum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 4 C 1 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Col & Ind Exhib 1886 Date: 00/00/1886x0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Both of these trees grow in this neighbourhood, and both yield a bitter bark in common use among the natives as a tonic. The bark of the H. excelsum is much the most bitter and may be distinguished from that of H. obovatum by its red colour, ; it is probably the most valuable but I am not aware of either of the barks having been properly tested in European practice. The minute structure of these barks resembles that of the Cinchona but the bundles of liver cells are larger, especially in H. o, bovatum; the spiral and laticiferous vessels also are more numerous, the latter being very large in H. obovatum and exuding when cut a waxy latex. In H. excelsum many of the cells are filled with a red colouring matter as in Cinchona bark, and there is a, continuous ring of liver cells near the junction of the bark with the wood; the liber cells in both varieties exhibit a large central cavity. The bark examined was from a branch above one inch in diam. | ||||