Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 55876 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | NONE Careya arborea | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Flowers | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | FlowersUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 16 E 10 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Description and uses - The tree has a rough bark the interior of which is red and very fibrous; it gives out much mucilage when moistened, and is used on this account for preparing emollient embrocations. The calices of the flowers are sold, in the shops under the name Wakoombha; they are clove-shaped, 4-partite, fleshy, of a greenish brown colour, and about an inch long. When placed in water they become coated with mucilage and emit a sickly odour. The natives use them as a demulcent in co, ughs and colds. The tree yields a gum resembling mango gum, and almost black. It forms with water a tolerably thick mucilage of a dark brown colour. | ||||