Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 54601 | |||||
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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. | ||||