Resin - Specimen details

Resin - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 64282

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Plant Name 42.00 BURSERACEAE Bursera excelsa Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Resin Vernacular Name
Iso Country Philippines TDWG Region Philippines
Parts Held Resin Geography Description Manilla ?
Uses ResinUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined TDWG use MEDICINES
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Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 33 D 8
Donor Date Donor Notes Hanbury Collectionx0Dx0A
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Notes: Label source: Identified by Prof Guibourt as his Tacamaque jaune huileuse B., described in his Hist. des Drog. Tome 3. p. 484 Ed. 1850. Resin offered as 'Gum Elemi' at the sale of the stock of Hancock & Co. wholesale Druggists, Earl Street Finsbury, 7 ms, 16.1850. Some of this resin was offered at public sale 12th Feb 1852 by Ellis and Hale. It was among several lots of Copal and included under that name in the catalogue but the man in the sale room called it Elemi. Cadiz was given as the place whence imp, orted. I have a sample of it. From Manilla? D.H. Label source: Glass tube; Tacamaque jaune huilense A. Guibourt Hist. des Drogues III (1850) M 483.484 - authentic specimen rec from M Gustave Blanchon 15/i 1874. (=Resin of Boswellia frereana Birdw.
Determinations:42.00 BURSERACEAE Bursera excelsa
    42.00 BURSERACEAE Boswellia frereana Birdw.

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