Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 57891 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Caesalpinia bonducella | Entry Book Number | ||
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| Iso Country | Mauritius | TDWG Region | Mauritius | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds | Geography Description | Mauritius | ||
| Uses | SeedsUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 19 G 7 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Also two tubes - C.bonducella, grey nicker nuts, ground in iron motor 31/10/46 and Nichol coffee roasted seeds of C.bonducella from Jamaica May 1932 Eppes Thatcher & Co 60 Jermyn St The grey seeds are used by the natives as parturient and e, mectic. In the Mauritius the leaves and seeds of this plant are used for gonorrhoea and allied diseases and the seeds are powdered and mixed with pepper and used as a febrifuge. The Mauritius name is Sogar gota (see Baker 'Fl. Mauritius & Seyshelles p.88), and the French Cadoque (Bouton, 'Fl Med de Maurice' p43). This author appears to have followed Bojer in confounding this species C.bonduc, which has yellow seeds. The dose used in Madagascar for promoting the explusion of the placenta is the kernel of on, e seed, scraped and drunk in water. | ||||