Resin - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 54209 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 80.00 UMBELLIFERAE Narthex asafoetida | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Resin | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Resin | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | ResinUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Chantre C | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: A very peculiar sort of A. highly valued in India. Neither Prof Fluckiger nor the late Mr Hanbury had ever seen it until I sent them samples. I have not as yet been able to obtain authentic sps of the plant from Kandahar, but for the fol, lowing reasons I consider it likely that it will prove to be the same as that which produces the official drug. 1. Bellew mentions a very high priced asafoetida obtained by wounding the leaf bud of the plant. 2. When examining a no of bales of common A, . from Kandahar I found some of them to contain particles of the more expensive drug, and a large quantity of what appeared to be gum resin in a transition stage between the transparency of Kandahar Hing and the opacity of the commercial article. 3. Roo, t found in bale of Kandahar Hing agreed exactly with a piece obtained from a bale of common asafoetida. Kandaharee Hing comes to Bombay in small quantities, sewn up in goat skins, forming small oblong bales with the hair outside. When it first arrives i, t is moist flaky pieces and tears, and reddish yellow oil separates on pressure, the gum resin also is a dull reddish yellow colour, soft and somewhat elastic, smelling of garlic or carraway oil. Hing is used by the wealthy people of Central India as a c, ondiment and medicine, it is not generally known in Bombay and is only to be found in the warehouses of a few wholesale dealers. Dr Dymock. | ||||