Pods and seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 61351 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Swartzia grandiflora | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Pods and seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Pods and seeds | Geography Description | San Fernando | ||
| Uses | Pods and seedsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Finlay Dr | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1874 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: The seeds are expelled from the pod which afterwards contracts, leaving the seeds still attached by the funiculus Opuscular source: Prof Dyer then read the following note from Dr Kirkman Finlay of San Fernando to Dr Hooker on the Dehiscenc, e of the Pod in a Species of Swartzia. 'I send you the pod of S.grandiflora, the dehiscence of which presents a singular phenomenon, which I have observed in no other Leguminosa and that only recently. In a later botanical excursion I met with a fine bun, ch of the pods in maturity. I secured them. On my return, on opening this vasculum, I found several of the pods lined with a row of seeds. This surprised me, for the pods had not changed at all in outward appearance. On pressing them however I felt they w, ere empty. I took the remaining pods that had remained full, and hung them up to dry. The next morning I found the pods exactly the same in outward shape as when I hung them up, only every one bore on one side a certain number of seeds hanging from the re, spective funiclus. These seeds were very glossy, covered with a coat of unctuous muscilage to facilate no doubt their exit from the pod. The latter as I said was quite closed and the coaptation of the sides through which the seeds had slipped was quite pe, rfect while the moniliform appearance was wholly preserved. | ||||