Leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 63971 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 39.01 RUTACEAE Murraya koenigii | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | LeavesUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 9 E 5 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/01/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The bark and leaves are mentioned in the Indian Pharmacopoeia. The leaves are in common use, but more as a condiment of curries than in medicine ; they enter into the composition of curries and green chutnies. The leaves are pinnate, the le, aflets 19 to 21, 1 1/4 inch to 2 inches long, alternate, unequally oblique at the base, irregularly ovate, serrated, pubescent, upper suface dark green dotted, under surface a lighter colour, vienation reticulate prominent, petioles red, odour powerful pe, netrating, and peculiar taste, moderately pungent bitter and acidulous. The bark has the same taste and odour as the leaves; the thin walled cells of the paraenchyma contains minute oil globules. The leaves of M.exotica, a small evergreen shrub, with lar, ge white sweet smelling flowers, smell like box leaves and have a very pungent taste. they have from 5 to 8 elliptic ovate tapering leaflets, acute at the base shining coriaceous and dotted with prominent venations. The bark of this shrub is insipid but i, ts paraenchyma abounds in oil globules. | ||||