The museum report : a descriptive list of the donations for the years 1895-1902.

  • Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Date:
1903
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Credit: The museum report : a descriptive list of the donations for the years 1895-1902. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Balsamodendron Abyssinicum, A'n</L {Bursieracea.) Saat. a. L, li. ft., Erythnea. Dr. G. Scliweinfurth. Note.—Neither leaves, fruit, nor twigs have any bitterness or flavour of myrrh. h. Yar. simplicifolia, Srlnr. Young shoots with larger leaves. Chaddesch Arab. L. fl., Ussil, Y'^emen. Dr. G. Schweinfurth. Balsamodendron Africanum, Am. a. L. fi., Erythriea. Dr. G. Schweinfurth. Note.—The fruit has a flavour like cedar, not like myrrh. h. L. fl., Accrur. Balsamodendron Erythraeum. Kafal. (/. L. fl. and ft. detached, Macaur Island, Erythrita. Dr. Schweinfurth. Note.—It yields the Kafal wood of the Cairo Bazaars. Balsamodendron Myrrha, Nees. Didthin. a. St. 1. ft. and bark with myrrh attached to it, Somaliland. Mrs. Lort Phillips. Balsamodendron Opobalsamum, llenth. It. Small branch, Somaliland. Balm of Gileadtree. Mrs. Lort Phillips. Balsamodendron Schimperi, (>. />V;y/. Oanka. a. L. ft. Note.—This was accidentally sent out on the same sheet as B. AbtinsinicHin, var. simjdirifolia. Dr. G. Schweinfurth. Bauhinia reticulata, ]>.('. (Fabacea:) a. L., Matombo. Dr. D. Kerr Cross, 189d, No. 47. Note.—Used in medicine by the natives in East Africa. Berchemia volubilis, J'.C {lUiamnarea.) (I. L., ft., N. Carolina. Biltmore Herb. Note.— Tsed as an antisyphilitic. Dragendorff, JJeilpikaiun, p. 412. BerthoUetia excelsa, Hmiih. and Bonpl. {Mi/i taceir.) a L., ti. Cultivated, Singapore. H. N. Ridley. Note.—Yields the Brazil nuts of commerce, which are really seeds, the fruit being a woody capsule of the size of a pommelo.