Catalogue of the collections / Comp. by E.M. Holmes.

  • Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Museum
Date:
1878
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    CLASS, INSECTA. ORDER, HEMIPTERA. APHID'JE. 761. Aphis Pistacle, L. a. Horn-shaped galls, from Calcutta. Note.—These galls are hollow and horn-shaped, about the size of the little finger, and contain exuvia? of insects, like the Chinese galls. In taste and appearance they resemble the galls from Pistacia tere- binthus. In the Indian Pharmacopoeia they are stated to be known in India under the name of Eakra-singhi, and to grow upon Ehus succedanea, L. See Pharm. Ind., p. 59 ; P. J. [2], vol. vi., p. 462. For fig., see Hist, des Drogues. 7eme ed., vol. iii., p. 501. Moquin-Tandon, Med. Zoology, p. 156. 762. Aphis Pistacia, L. a. Horn-shaped gall. Note.—These galls are much larger than the last one, being six inches long; they are also more compressed. They are attached to a twig of the tree on which they grow, Pistacia terebinthus, L., and are labelled apparently in the writing of Daniel Hanbury, Galls of Pistacia Terebinthus. For fig., see Hist, des Drogues, vol. iii., p. 500. 763. Aphis species. ? a. Pear-shaped galls. Note.—These are reddish hollow galls, collected in Morocco, probably from Pistacia Atlantica, Desf. In that country they are called Elleg. See P. J. [3], vol. iii., p. 625. b. Bokhara galls. Note.—These galls are scarcely distinguishable from the last. They are said to grow in Affghanistan and Cabul, upon Pistacia Khinjuk, Stocks, and are imported into India under the name of Gul-i-pista. See Pharm. Ind., p. 59 ; and for fig. of galls, P. J. [1], vol. iii., p. 387. The above specimen consists of a few galls from Dr. Eoyle, and some presented by Mons. Chantre, which were offered in the London market as Gul-i-pista, in 1876. 764. Aphis species. a. Obovate compressed galls. (Cadooca-poo.) Note.—These galls are flattened or slightly convex, hollow, and obovate in outline. They are found occasionally mixed with the fruits of Terminalia Chebula, Eetz, and are probably derived from that tree. See Ind. Pharm., p. 89. Technologist, vol. i., p. 187. 765. Aphis Chinensis, Bell. {Cauliflower Gall, Woo-pei-tsze.) a. Chinese galls. Note.—These large, irregularly pear-shaped, tuberculated galls have a ' downy surface, and when broken open are seen to be quite hollow, and to have very thin, resinous walls. They yield 52 per cent, of tannin, or about 50 per cent, of beautifully white gallic acid. See P. J. [2], vol. ii. p. 509; [1], vol. xii., p. 445. For fig., see P.J. [1], vol. iii., p. 386,