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

  • Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Museum
Date:
1878
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    307. (6) Yellow bake from Para. Para baric, containing Wink- ler's paricine. a. Large quills. Note.—This bark is identical with Martiny's specimen of China de Para pallida. Externally it resembles his China de Eio Janeiro, but the inner surface is more fibrous. The label is apparently in Batka's writ- ing, but is not signed by him as in the other labels. (7) Red bark from Para. Buena hexandra, of my description, Bar a. Large quills. Note.—This specimen corresponds exactly with Martiny's specimen of China de Eio de Janeiro. Hanbury states that Paricine was obtained by Winkler from Buena hexandra. Pharmacographia, p. 321. 308. The following specimens were 'presented to illustrate papers in the Pharmaceutical Journal, etc. :— (1) Red babk from South America. (C. succirubra, Pav.) a. Portions of small branches. b. Bark from the small branches. c. Bark from the large branches. d. Bark from the trunk. e. Heartwood. /. Section of small trunk. g. Section of the root. Note.—These specimens were collected near the village of Cibambe, in the province of Alausi, in South America, in September, 1855. They illustrate a paper on the botanical source of red bark, by Mr. J. E. How- ard, in the P. J. [1], vol. xvi., p. 207. (2) Red bark from India. (C. succirubra, Pav.) a. Quills. Note.—This specimen is from the third harvest of renewed bark from the same tree seven years old, and was gathered at the Government plantations in the Neilgherries, India, in March, 1868. According to Howard, it contains 6-15 per cent, of salts of quinine. b. Section of small trunk showing where the bark has been three times renewed. c. Section showing junction of old and new bark. d. Two sections of a trunk, showing where the tree was previously barked. e. Renewed bark of C. succirubra from the Neilgherries, 1875. This specimen was presented by Mr. D. Howard. It contains 0-2 per cent, of Quinidine, an alkaloid which is not present in the natural bark. See P. J. [3], vol. v., p. 1025. Note.—Specimens a, b, and c are in the same glass jar. The above specimens illustrate a paper in P. J. [2], vol. x., pp. 317-320.