Rachis - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 57837 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Erythrophleum guineense | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Rachis | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Malawi | TDWG Region | Malawi | ||
| Parts Held | Rachis | Geography Description | Nyassaland, Near Zemba | ||
| Uses | RachisUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 10 B 3 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Durrant HR Exeter (Presented By) Date: 11/05/1949x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Leaf: bipinnate. Main rachis 35 to 46 cm long with 4 to 5 pairs of pinnae. Rachis of each pinnae, 6 to 20 cm long with 5 to 9 pairs of leaflets arranged alternately. Leaflets - unequal at the base 70 to 80 degrees one side and 45 to 60, degrees the other; ovate, apex accumulate, margin entire, midrib projecting on under surface and with a distinct on the upper surface and lateral veins spaced at about 0.5 cm intervals, rather fine leaving the midrib at a wide angle of about 75 degrees an, d anastomising by arches of 2 to 3 mms from the margin, pinnules 6 x 3.5 to 11 x 5.5 cm. Petiole 3 to 5 mms. See drawing of leaf built up from Nyasaland specimens in Museum HRB Durrant 1949. Recherches sur les 'Erythrophloeum' by R Paris et M Rigal Bull S, c Pharmacol.1941. 48 p. 362-372. Complete theses by Marcel Rigal in Traueaux des Laboratories de Nat Med E. guineense . It is a grand tree in the tropical forest. Following is a description in French see specimen. Baillon Nat. Hist. of Plants 2 p.142 Flow, er; receptacle lined with glandular tissue; on its rim are inserted ? a 5 toothed gamosepelous calyx, 5 equal petals, at first slightly imbricate but later valvate? and 10 free stamens, 5 superimposed to the teeth of the calyx and 5 shorter to the petals;, the filament of the stamen bears an introse? 2 celled anther of longitudinal dehiscence, whose connective is often surrmounted by a mossy glandular point. The gynoecium is inserted by a long slender foot in the bottom of the receptale. Its ovary contains, an indefinite number of ovules and is surrmounted by a short style, with an undilated stigmataperus apex. Afzel ex R.Br in Tuck. Congo 438, Misc. Works et Benn No.1 153 290. Endl Gen 6818 - B.H. Gen 580 & 371. Fillaea Guill. & Perr Fl. Senegal Tent - 12, 42, T. 55 See enclosed. | ||||