Galls - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 61967 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 53.01 ANACARDIACEAE Pistacia khinjuk | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Galls | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Galls | Geography Description | Bombay | ||
| Uses | GallsUse: MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The galls when old are of a reddish brown colour as stated in the Pharmacopoeia of India, but when fresh are bright pink on one side and yellowish white on the other; they vary much in shape and size, some being perfectly fig-shaped, some a, lmost spherical, the majority are ovoid; the apices are pointed or often mucronate; the largest have a diameter of from 5/8 to 6/8 of an inch; many are no larger than a pea. At the base a portion of leaf often remains attached; here also may be seen an op, en stoma which communicates with the interior of the sac; the walls are thin, brittle and translucent; the taste acidulous, very astringent and midly terebinthinous; the odour terebinthinous. When broken open most of the sacs are seen to contain only a li, ttle fecal debris, but in some skeletons of a aphis may be found, consisting of a head, thorax, and abdomen divided into segments, clothed all around with bristles. Gul-i-pistia is an astringent medicine; it is also used for tanning leather. The resin of, P. khinjuk is used in Bombay instead of mastic to which it is much inferior in perfume. Dymock | ||||