Seeds - Specimen details

Seeds - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 54601

Plant Name 75.00 CUCURBITACEAE Fevillea cordifolia Entry Book Number 94.1860
Artefact Name Seeds Vernacular Name
Iso Country Not defined TDWG Region Not defined
Parts Held Seeds Geography Description
Uses SeedsUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Spruce, Richard Donor No
Donor Date 20/06/1860 Donor Notes
Collector Spruce, Richard Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: ? 4031 F.jacilla HBKx0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p44.: Large lentiform seeds contain much bitter oil, which is extracted for lamps. At Garimagus, I saw, a torch made by cutting up a single seed into cm cubical pieces and stringing on a beard of patina, in contact with each other. On being lighted they burnt with a clear light which lasted perhaps half an hour. These torches are useful for carrying abou, t from place to place for which ordinary lamps- merely of portion of oil with a cotton wick in a shallow earthen vessel - do not suit.

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