Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 66699 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 27.01 GUTTIFERAE Mesua ferrea | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | BarkUse: MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 2 A 5 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museum Date: 00/00/1880x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: This handsome tree with its large cistus-like flowers, is found in the Southern Concan and Goa Territory, but is much more abundant further south. The dry blossom are known as Nagkesur in the bazaars. The bark contains much resinous juice, , which exudes freely when it is wounded. The root bark has a reddish brown epidermis, consisting of ten or more rows of brick-shaped cells, full of condensed resin. Within the epidermis is a variable number of rows of cells of the same shape, yellow, re, fractive, and containing resinous juice. The medullary rays are also yellow and refractive. There are numerous laticiferous vessels. This bark is maidly astringent and feebly aromatic ; it is not bitter as stated in the Pharmacopoeia of India. | ||||