Samples of gums - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 77600 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 75.00 CUCURBITACEAE Elaterium sp. | Entry Book Number | 21.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Samples of gums | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Samples of gums | Geography Description | West Indies (Carribean), Baghdad (Iraq), Syra (Grecian Archipelago) | ||
| Uses | Samples of gumsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 22/08/1983 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Display case containing eight samples of gum. Each sample is in its own box with notes attached as follows: 1. Elaterium Matha [?]. The juice deposited from the wild cucumber. Used as a purgative. 3/- per oz. 2. Poison. Elaterium Matha [?]. Fine. 3/6 per, oz. 3. Possibly Dorema or Sagapenum. Umbelliferous taste. 4. Gum Guayac. West Indies. 5. Gum Mastic. Baghdad, Persia. Yellow, opaque. 6 per lb [?]. 6. Gum Guaiacum. West Indies. 7. Pistacia lentiscus. (Syra. Grecian Archipelago.) 8. Gum Guaiacum. West Ind, ies. Card catalogue entry filed under 'Native Name Only - Gums & Resins.' | ||||
| Determinations: | 53.01 ANACARDIACEAE 53.01 ANACARDIACEAE Pistacia lentiscus L. 75.00 CUCURBITACEAE Elaterium sp. 80.00 UMBELLIFERAE Dorema sp | ||||