Leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 58934 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Albizia amara | Entry Book Number | 55.1899 | |
| Artefact Name | Leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | LeavesUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Patterson GS | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Jyree tea, this consists chiefly of what appears to be leaflets of Albizzia amara Boiv. mixed with ordinary tea. Report of Examination by Dr Stapf 'The pale green leaflets belong very probably to some species of Acacia, whilst the few pinki, sh petals which occur among them are very likely those of a Cassia. Jyree is made in the same manner as ordinary tea. It should draw at least ten minutes before being drunk, but it is not injurious if allowed to draw for any length of time. Directions -, For ordinary tea drinking, one part Jyree to three or four of tea. For neuralgia and indigestion one of Jyree to two or three of ordinary tea, and for insomnia one of Jyree to one or two of tea, to be taken after food when ready for sleep. Proprietors AC, Irwin & Co Billiter Buildings. Opuscular source: Jyree tea, Extract of letter from Mr GS Paterson dated The Club, Weston-super-Mare 24 May 1899 - ' I am sending you a sample obtained from a local chemist it appears identical with what I sent out to India, except it has a small quantity of tea mixed up with it. I know very little about it. I was calling on Mr Irwin of Billiter House on other business, and he raved of nothing else but this wonderful plant he had found out the virtures of during long residen, ce in India, he considers it a great and valuable secret. It is named after his native servant, I gathered it was a common weed and grew in the Madras Residency where he resided. Besides the so called tea he has Jyree oil to cure of aches and pains. Jyree, soap for softening the skin. He also shows samples of leather soaked in Jyree and rendered beautiful soft. He naturally refused to disclose the botanical or native name of the plant and went even as far as to state that this plant was wrongly classified, amongst the Indian plants and the botanical name it had got was not the correct one. Should you call on Mr Irwin at any time you will hear enough about the virtures of this Jyree in half an hour to last you a life-time. I would suggest buying a lot of it, on the off-chance of securing seeds that might germinate amongst the rough/tough leaf; it is evidently only sun dried or air dried in dark rooms and it would be quite possible to find seed germs. I don't consider it necessary to associate my name further, with the subject' | ||||