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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    G6 has not any well-defined taste. In Pappes Flora Capemu Mrdica, p. 40, it is stated to be not uncommon on Karroo-like hills between the Zwartkops and Bosjesman Rivers, flowering in December and January. In the eastern districts the fleshy root when boiled is made use of internally in piles, and is called T'ray by the natives. The leaves are broadly sword- shaped, and the flowers racemose, and white. Stramonium leaves. The leaves of (JartJiaunis Jidimioidcs, Desf., and of Xonthiiini stntman'mii, Linn., have been found in commerce mixed with stramonium leaves. The microscopical characters by which they can be distinguished are given in the Pharm. Joiirn. [4], XII., pp. 326-334. Strophanthus seed. Since the issue of the last Miiscitni Hcport (1895), much has been added to our knowledge of the species of the genus. The kombe seed of commerce has been shown to be a mixture of the seeds of certainly two, and probably three species, viz., S. Kiiiitbc, Oliv., S. ( '(iiiniioittii, Franch. and ;S'. L'oitnnontii, var. Kirhii, Holmes, possibly also at times of var. falla.c, and of the seed of -S. Km 'mL See I'/ianii. Joimi. [4], XII., pp. 486 and 518. The seed of S. K<iiiiJ)r gives a green reaction Avith a mixture of 80 parts of pure sulphuric acid (B.P.) with 20 parts of water {P/iarni. Joitrn. [4], XIV., p. 254). The other seeds give a slowly developing rose-red reaction. During the last year unmixed seeds of ,S'. Komhr have been imported bearing the name of Mandala as a brand. The woolly strophanthus .seeds occasionally imported have been identified as those of S. Nichohoni, Holmes {Pharin. Jonrn. [3], V., p. 209). The distinctive histological characters of genuine kombe seed have been described by Mr. P.E. F. Perredes, 7Jtntrn. [4] ,pp. 136 to 174, 241 and 265, and of those of N. ('onrnumtii, var. Kirkii, in Phayui. .foiini. [4], XII., p. 518. The chemistry of the difterent commercial kinds is as yet not satisfactorily cleared up (Pharin. Joiirn. [4], XL, p. 314). But a new glucoside named pseudostrophanthin, having a melting point of 195^ has been obtained by Franz Feist, and gives a red reaction with sulphuric acid, from seQds which are probably those of ^'. Arnnldicoiiis, He Wild, and Jhirand.