Resin - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 54177 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 80.00 UMBELLIFERAE Ferula narthex | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Resin | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Resin | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | ResinUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Gums and resins Prov no 2894. Local name of gum resin Hingra. This is the asafoetida of European commerce; it arrives in Bombay from Persia and from Afghanistan. The former is produced in the province of Laristan, and is known to Persian m, erchants as Anghuzeh i Lari; it generally arrives in a moist condition, but soon hardens. The latter comes by the Indus route, and is generally hard and dry. Very fine samples are not uncommon. The stony asafoetida described by Pereira is commonly met w, ith in this market; it is simply a mixture of very fluid common asafoetida with white sandy soil of the country in which the plant grows; it fetches a very low price, and as far as I can make out, the mixture is made more for convenience of carriage than, for the purpose of deception. Besides, when the juice is unusually fluid it runs out upon the surrounding ground and becomes mixed with the sand. Common asafoetida is only used in India by the poorest classes. The porduct of F alliacea is a much more, powerful drug, and is always issued instead of it from the Govt stores in Bombay. | ||||