Stems ? - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62449 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 51.01 SAPINDACEAE Serjania sp | Entry Book Number | 33.1983.29 | |
| Artefact Name | Stems ? | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Stems ? | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Stems ?Use: VERTEBRATE POISONS - Fish User: Man | TDWG use | VERTEBRATE POISONS - Fish | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat Hist) | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: No 26 root used to poison fish in water. The root is moistened and beaten then washed in the water in still water. This quanity is sufficient to kill a pound of fish. Timbo is the Indian name of wood from which is procured the celebrated in, toxicating posion used by the Indian fishermen. It is one of the innumerable rope plants with which the tropical forest abounds. Specimens of wood and root from both of which the poison is procured. E Hallow | ||||