Seed - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 59495 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Cassia sophera | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Seed | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Seed | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | SeedUse: MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The Sanskrit name of this plant is Kasamarda, and signifies destroyer of cough. It is supposed by the Hindus to have expectorant properties. It is also noticed in Mahometan works as a remedy for snake bites. The root is directed to be gi, ven with black pepper. A plaster or poultice of the root with sandal wood is said to cure ringworm. Plant is annual erect branched glabrous; leaflets six to twelve pair, lanceolate, or oblong lanceolate, acute, with a single gland near the base of the p, etiole; racemes terminal or axillary, few flowered; upper petal retuse legumes long, linear, turgid glabrous, many seeded; suture keeled; seeds horizontal with cellular partitions; flowers middle sized yellow. The plant has a heavy disagreeable smell, an, d a purplish tinge; the root is fobrous and woody. It springs up on waste ground during the rains, and flowers in November. Dymock Pharm Journal. | ||||