Pods - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 59367 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Caesalpinia digyna | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Pods | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Burma | TDWG Region | Burma | ||
| Parts Held | Pods | Geography Description | Burma | ||
| Uses | PodsUse: MATERIALS - Tannins/Dyestuffs User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Tannins/Dyestuffs | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | British Tanners Ltd | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1927 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Opuscular source: Letter M687/27, 1st Oct 1927, from Secretary, Brit Tanners Ltd, 67 Dale St, Liverpool. Dear Sir, We are very much obliged by your letter of yesterday relative to the C digyna and thank you for the information that the Imp Inst has acon, signment of pods from the Forest Dept of Burma which have shown as hgih a percentage of tannin as 60%. Part of the sample which was sent to you was analysed in one of our labs and the whole beans with the seeds only gave 20. 7% of tan. but with the seeds, extracted and the beans crushed the percentage was 43.6%. Opuscular source: From JHH 3.x.27. The sample they believed came from Rangoon 27.09.27. They stated 'We have regular deliveries of Divi divi from Curacao and Maracaibo and occasional deliverie, s from Madras, but we have never had any similar to the sample which we sent to you.' | ||||