Fruit and seeds - Specimen details

Fruit and seeds - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 54606

Plant Name 75.00 CUCURBITACEAE Fevillea sp Entry Book Number 94.1860
Artefact Name Fruit and seeds Vernacular Name
Iso Country Not defined TDWG Region Not defined
Parts Held Fruit and seeds Geography Description
Uses Fruit and 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: Source: 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 see, d 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 about 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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