Gum/Resin - Specimen details

Gum/Resin - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 61769

Plant Name 53.01 ANACARDIACEAE Lannea coromandelica Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Gum/Resin Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Gum/Resin Geography Description India
Uses Gum/ResinUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined TDWG use MEDICINES
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 33 C 2
Donor Date 00/00/1983 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: The gum, Shimptee, or Mooi cha goud. This gum is partly in tears of yellowish tinge, and partly in colourless angular fragments, which are full of fissures like gum arabic; it has a disagreeable taste, and is not astringent; about one half, of it is completely soluble in water the remaining portion forms a slimy mucilage, but is not gelatinous. The soluble portion, which is feebly acid, is precipitated by alcohol, and in a less degree by oxalate of ammonium, not at all by perchloride ofiro, n or borax. Odina gum is mentioned in the Pharm of India, but is probably of no medicinal value, it might be of use in calico printing.

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