Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65396 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 31.01 MALVACEAE Althaea officinalis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Flowers | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | FlowersUse: MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Respiratory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: These three articles (flowers, roots, seeds) are imported into Bombay from Persia; the flowers have by some been attributed to A. rosea, but the carpels which may be found mixed with them have not the membranaceous margin of those belongin, g to that plant, and the exterior calyx has from eight to nine divisions instead of six. The greater part of the drug consists of the calyx which is double, with the half mature petals attached, but some fully developed flowers are to be found and occasio, nally a nearly mature fruit. The calyx is thick and covered with simple hairs very closely set, and arranged in star-like tufts ; the flower has five petals, which in the dry article are of a bluish-green colour at the base, the blades being purple; both, calyx and flowers are mucilaginous. Gul khairo is used in cough mixtures. The root known as khatmi appears to me to be the same as the guimauve of the French, but it is not decorticated, nor is it so plump and free from fibre ; it is used for the same pur, poses as that drug. Tukm i khatmi consists of the carpels, which are dark brown, ear-shaped, about three-tenths of an inch in the longest diameter; their external surface is hairy and furrowed ; the flat sides are also studded with white simple hairs, and, the margin is plaited. The interior of the carpel is polished and of a grey colour; it contains one dark grey seed, similar in shape to the carpel, with a dull yellow kernel. Tukm i khatmi is mucilaginous. Dymock Pharm Journ | ||||