# occurrence

institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059579
modified: 2007-09-05 12:23:31.933000
country: Sierra Leone
countryCode: SL
locality: West Tropical Africa, Sherbro Country
ScientificName: Copaifera salikounda
scientificNameAuthorship: Heckel
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Copaifera
specificEpithet: salikounda
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See Pharm Journ Nov 25th, 1893 p 422.  Scott Elliott knows nothing about this.  It may be a Copaifera?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059582
modified: 2006-05-08 14:34:50.080000
country: Angola
countryCode: AO
locality: Angola
ScientificName: Copaifera
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Copaifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample of resin afforded by the dingi tree see herb spec no 32, of list dated June 23 1921, from MT Dawe, Fomento Geral de Angola, Cabinda, Angola, Portuguese W  Africa. No 32 Indeterminable seen list in Herb (25 iv 22) JHH.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059584
modified: 2009-02-27 11:24:00.380000
country: Congo, Republic of the
countryCode: CG
locality: Congo
ScientificName: Copaifera
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Copaifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Copy of Letter to JH Hillier, Museum from Robert Ingham Clarke & Co Ltd, West Ham Abbey, London E, March 10.1904. Dear sir, in reply to your favour of 7th inst we beg to acknowledge the receipt of the sample of Congo Copal and have pleasure in giving you our opinion upon the gum.  Copal Congo has become, during the last few years, an important factor in the gum trade and at the present moment we understand there are large quantities lying in Brussels and elsewhere.  Its production is worked we believe by the Belgian Govt and comes from the Congo district.  The price unpicked and in its natural state similar to your sample could be purchased at the present moment for about 65/ to 70/- per cwt (The best white portion picked and cleaned reaches 145/- per cwt).  The supplies we believe are somewhat irregular hence price varies considerably, but the gum commercially is useful and is used in the manuf of varnishes.  We regard it as a somewhat weak gum losing a considerable amount when run byheat for varnishes.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059597
modified: 2010-02-26 10:50:02.197000
ScientificName: Guibourtia demeusei
scientificNameAuthorship: (Harms) J.Léonard
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Guibourtia
specificEpithet: demeusei
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mostly found at a depth of 6 - 36 ins. by native collectors prodding the ground with iron tipped sticks.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059605
modified: 2010-02-26 10:51:37.550000
country: Angola
countryCode: AO
locality: Angola
ScientificName: Guibourtia demeusei
scientificNameAuthorship: (Harms) J.Léonard
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Guibourtia
specificEpithet: demeusei
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A soft fossil resin occurring in Angola. It is found in rounded pieces ranging from white to pale yellow.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059616
modified: 2007-09-20 11:38:36.360000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria, Lagos, Botanic Station
ScientificName: Crudia senegalensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Planch. ex Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Crudia
specificEpithet: senegalensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Memo re Millens Lagos Plants.  No 130 Ogca Gum? Please supply name for museum  JRJ 28.11.94


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059627
modified: 2005-08-19 16:36:48.680000
country: Sierra Leone
countryCode: SL
locality: Sierra Leone, Freetown
ScientificName: Daniellia oliveri
scientificNameAuthorship: (Rolfe) Hutch. & Dalziel
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Daniellia
specificEpithet: oliveri
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sent with sp of true Daniella thurifera, The gum is sold in Freetown at 6d quart and used by the Mendi women as scented ointment is is called 'Bowi' by them.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059650
modified: 2005-07-05 16:29:33.980000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria, Nupe
ScientificName: Detarium senegalense
scientificNameAuthorship: J.F.Gmel.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Detarium
specificEpithet: senegalense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The hard seed of a large tree which you also may probably recognize as it is  seed to be found in Sierra Leone. I send it to you to tell you of its uses. The fruit is an oval flattened disc and when cooked its mealy mesocarp is eaten and is not unpleasant having a slight flavour of ginger bread. When beaten into a pulp again it is made into a confit. Its kernel (which is every albuminous) has usually though not always stronly the odour of Tonguin bean and a hydrocyanic taste - in some places its beaten into a small cake and given to cattle - housa call it and its tree Taiura ?? See Dr Baikies letter to Sir JD Hooker dated Bida 9 April 62. Recd in August


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059672
modified: 2021-09-01 14:46:36.430000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Rio Uaupés
ScientificName: Eperua grandiflora
scientificNameAuthorship: (Aubl.) Baill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Eperua
specificEpithet: grandiflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Cultural restriction: This object can not be seen by women.   Label source:  The Tubes are wrapped in the bark of Iebaru (Eperua grandiflora). Used among the Indians of the Rio Uaupes, Brazil at their feasts. Juruparis (or Devils) used by the Indians on the Uaupes in their Dabocuris (Festas,) consisting of a tube of Paxiuba (Iriartea exorrhiza), wrapped with a long strip of the tough bark of the Jeboru (a Caesalpineous tree with handsome red monopetalous flowers, apparently the Parivoa grandiflora of Aubler) {Eperua grandiflora], which descends in widening folds to some distance below the tube, thus forming a sort of trumpet, which is simply blown into the upper end. I cannot find that the Juruparis are objects of actual adoration, but they certainly are an object of fear and respect. No women is ever permitted tosee them and should such a circumstance occur the women is certainly put to death generally by poison though the sight should have been accidental on her part. Youths are not permitted to handle or blow the Juruparis before the age of puberty, and must previously have undergone a series of fastings and scourgings. The Juruparis are kept hidden in the bed of some stream deep in the forest, in which no one dares to drink or bathe; and there are brought out only at night and blown outside the house where the feast is held, in order that no women may obtain a sight of them.  Source: Spruce, R (1851-1855) Journal entry for 17-18 April 1851. Journals from Barra to the Orinoco, from Barra to Tarapoto and notes on the uses of Amazon plants and on cryptograms,p52. The performances commenced early by blowing of flageolets.  A dance was then commenced by men and boys inside the house by forming themselves into a ring, each holding the flute to his mouth with the right hand and placing his left hand on the rightshoulder of the person in advance of him and then moving round.  Source: Spruce, R (1851-1855) Uses of Amazon plants.  Journals from Barra to the Orinoco, from Barra to Tarapato and notes on the uses of Amazon plants and on cryptograms, p8.  Used in  festas of Indians on Uaupés and on Rio Negro made of Paxiuba with soft central part scooped out as to resemble a bassoon and gives a somewhat similar sound when blown into at one end.  Larger one five or six feet long have a square orifice near upper end  into which is inserted a piece of clay so as to resemble the orifice of the mouthpiece of a flageolet, and above this is tied a fresh leaf of uarurina every time the Juruparis used.  Smaller ones 1-3 feet long have an external envelope of jebaru-bark.  A longstrip of this tough bark 11 or 12 inches thick is tightly wrapped around the Paxiuba (of which six to nine inches of upper end are left uncovered).  In some 15 turns after which it is continued spirally downwards in additional turns so as to form a  wide  tube  reaching two feet beyond the Paxiuba. Two sticks are tied tightly down over this bark and inside it so as to keep it always in its place and being kept always under water it does not shrink.  The addition of this tube gives a deeper hollow sound to the  instrument.  Jurupari are of all sorts and sizes and each has its distinct name.  That for instance each is the length of leg is called Keléubuká; that length of halfarm Pucé.  Juruparisare kept hidden in the bed of some iguapi in the forest andare only  brought out on a feast day for the women who see them die, generally by poison.  On feast days Jurupari are brought out of the forest about dark and then who has them begins to blow when at a distance from the house of feast.  When heard approaching thewomen all run to hide themselves in the forest or the other side of the house.  They are blown outside the house out of the sight of the women.  Youths are not permitted to touch or blow the Jurupari until 13 or 14 years of age.  They are previously  put  on  spare dish for three months and have recruitment flogging given.  Afterwards on a day appointed they are taken to the place where the Juruparis are hidden and taught how to play on them.  Returning home a feast is made and caniri drunk allnight, the  elders giving  a long exhortation to the youths, such as to always do as their father bids them - not to reply when their mother scolds them.  Photographed and catalogued in November 2016 as part of the Musical Instrument Interface for Museumsand Collections (MINIM-UK) project, Royal College of Music, www.minim-uk.org    


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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modified: 2008-01-08 12:00:39.437000
country: Uganda
countryCode: UG
locality: Uganda
ScientificName: Erythrophleum guineense
scientificNameAuthorship: G.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Erythrophleum
specificEpithet: guineense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Muvumu (Luganda) No. 278. Large tree up to 70 or 80 feet with round, spreading crown. Usually divides fairly low down into several large trunks, and in general habit and bark appearance resembles an English beech tree grown in the open though the bark is not quite so smooth. Fruits red, mostly borne towards top of the tree giving the crown a reddish tinge. Bark 1/2 inch thick, in section the colour of chicken, ham and tongue meat paste, with apparent resin globules scattered in it. Collected in Lutoboka Forest, Bugala, Sese, which consists almost entirely of this species, at 3,850 Ft elevation by W.J. Eggeling, November 1931. Comm N.V. Brasnett, Uganda. Label source:  Keeper - not wanted in Herb. may be useful in Museums. (Specimen in Herb) G.G.B. 17. ii. 32.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059683
modified: 2006-01-17 16:18:10.997000
locality: Lake Nyassa
ScientificName: Erythrophleum guineense
scientificNameAuthorship: G.Don
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Erythrophleum
specificEpithet: guineense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Probably pod of tree which yields the ordeal bark - will the seeds germinate? Opuscular source:  Letter from 16 Albyn Terrace, July 11th 78. Dear Professor Oliver, Accept thanks for names of plants, the Potomageton was dived for by the natives, it grew in a depth of 30ft. Laga??phloea ?? quite decieved me, it is entirely cellular, I can find no trace of vascular tissue, The plants were hurriedly collected from the lake in Oct. last 1877 there being an opportunity to forward. Mr Johnston one of the mission belonging to this ? , as does Dr Laws bought the things to Aberdeen; the day after the packet was sent off, Mr J. called and bought seeds of the raw cotton and a hank as spun by the natives which Dr L. thought might be sent to Kew Museum.The solitary dark pod with a few rather large seeds is the ripe fruit of the ordeal bark tree which is well named Erythrophloeum, the bark sent had got rubbed and the peculiar portion consequently lost, a few bits retained the very red colour which is owing to very minute red granules in the outer most cells of the bark layer. I sent two pieces which show this. I believe Laws had few books, and certainly not your Flora Of Africa he was working during intervals of sessions as a upholsterer to raise cash for class fees, he is an A ? & M.D. ? of our university, some friends gave help in cash to get him forward. Very Truely yours G Dill??. P.S. experiements have been made here on animals the bark is a powerful poison acting mainly on nervous systems.G.D.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The ashes are used by the Chinese to excite animation in drowning persons Consul Caines despatch of 5 Oct 1869


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059717
modified: 2006-01-17 17:30:13.873000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: North America, West Chester
ScientificName: Gymnocladus canadensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Gymnocladus
specificEpithet: canadensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pods entire, Pods laid open, Seeds, Longitudinal and transverse sections of seeds, Seed with embryo removed. West Chester Cult 1855


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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modified: 2006-11-03 16:17:13.567000
country: Venezuela
countryCode: VE
locality: Venezuela, Angostura
ScientificName: Hymenaea courbaril
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Hymenaea
specificEpithet: courbaril
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Is very odoriferous produced and exported by the Provinces of Angostura. Value 2 jch per lb


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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modified: 2004-07-20 13:01:30.640000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Para, Santarem
ScientificName: Hymenaea courbaril
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Hymenaea
specificEpithet: courbaril
occurrenceRemarks:
Source: Museum Entry book 1847-55, p 87:Of the Julahu- a large leguminous tree in the forests of Santarem and Obidos.  Source: Spruce, R. (1851-1855) Uses of Amazon plants.  Journals from Barra to the Orinoco, from Barra to Tarapoto and notes on the uses of Amazon plants and on cryptograms, p23.:  Used as a varnish.  In Minas an emulsion of copal, sugar and water is a remedy for chronic coughs.  The seeds form a sweetish starchy envelope which is also considered pectoral.  The gum-resin which distils from cracks in bark and is sometimes found in lumps inside legumes, soon congeals in into a yellowish mass.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059751
recordNumber: s.n.
recordedBy: Santos TS dos
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Bahia
eventDate: 1981-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1981
ScientificName: Hymenaea courbaril
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Hymenaea
specificEpithet: courbaril
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Further details of locality not known This gum sample reported to burn extremely well.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059755
modified: 2010-03-23 13:19:35.857000
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad, Cunupia River
ScientificName: Hymenaea courbaril
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Hymenaea
specificEpithet: courbaril
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Washed copy of report on two samples of resin from Trinidad received from Mr WH Freeman 23.8.11 - Mr RG Bushe at the suggestion of. Mr J Masters Hillier, RBG Kew, Dear Sir, We have examined the samples of gum which you left with us marked washed and unwashed. We do not think that gum of this character has been imported into this before, so we have nothing to guide us in advising you as to the probable value. The sample marked washed contains some good gum suitable for varnish purposes, but there are also a good many white coated pieces which ought to be taken out. We should certainly like your friends to send a trial shipment similar to this sample, but as free from the white coated pieces as possible. We should say that if they did, thismight get about 35 to 40 shillings per cwt. As regards the unwashed we do not think its advisable to send consignments in that form. We return your samples as you might like to keep them for further reference. Yours etc Dalton & Young See also Letter Book 7 Letter 470 p.9.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059760
country: Madagascar
countryCode: MG
locality: Madagascar
ScientificName: Hymenaea verrucosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Hymenaea
specificEpithet: verrucosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Madagascar Flora. Gathered between Tamatave and Antananarivo by Dr Meller in July & August 1862.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059777
recordNumber: 21570
modified: 2006-10-25 12:02:37.493000
recordedBy: Harley RM
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Bahia, Caatinga
eventDate: 1980-04-19 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 19/04/1980
ScientificName: Hymenaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Hymenaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Basin of the Upper Sao Francisco River. About 35km north of Bon Jesus da Lapa, on the main road to Ibotirama. Caatinga. Tree to 20 m alt with trunk to 40 cm. in diameter. Leaves coriaceous, mid green above, paler beneath. Pods hard, dark brown, the outer layer impregnated with colourless resin.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059779
modified: 2006-10-25 12:04:08.177000
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: Demerara
ScientificName: Hymenaea courbaril
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Hymenaea
specificEpithet: courbaril
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  'Sacrifice to Huitzil'.  An experiment in the use of the material.  It is very refractory and is actually not suitable for sculptural work owing to its extreme brittleness and a tendency to clog the tools used, mainly small files and riffles.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059792
modified: 2005-07-08 14:06:53.450000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Zanzibar
ScientificName: Hymenaea verrucosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Hymenaea
specificEpithet: verrucosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Flowers, fruits and foliage of the Zanibar Copal tree. Trachylobium verrucosum (Hornemannianum) Hayne. Dr Kirk


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059797
modified: 2016-12-15 12:59:04.390000
country: Fiji
countryCode: FJ
locality: Fiji Islands
ScientificName: Intsia bijuga
scientificNameAuthorship: (Colebr.) Kuntze
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Intsia
specificEpithet: bijuga
occurrenceRemarks:
Previously part of Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1 1997- Spring 2016  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059807
modified: 2006-01-17 17:27:39.080000
country: Panama
countryCode: PA
locality: Panama
ScientificName: Mora megistosperma
scientificNameAuthorship: (Pittier) Britton & Rose
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mora
specificEpithet: megistosperma
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Extract oil from the trunk which is said to be better than linseed and is used for painting houses etc.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059816
modified: 2006-01-17 17:19:13.150000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Hawaii
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pod broad oblong or obovate 3 - 3 1/2'x 1 1/4 - 2' with a dorsal wing of 3 to 4 inches in width running along its whole length and ending in an uncinate point, quite flat, thin, indehiscent, not projecting internally. Seeds 2 to 4 transverse pale ovate, flat, 9-10 ' x 7-8' with a punctiform hileum at the base. Kauai! Oahu! Waianae Mountains and Wailupe ; E.Maui Ulupalakua and N.Maui! on dry fore hills. Nat names 'Kea' and 'Kalemona'. The wood is hard grained is dark. Fl. Hawaiian Islands Hillebrand (1888) p.110. Verified in Herbarium by specimen collected by Dr Hillebrand Recd 12/92 See also letter 188.1904 JH Holland Sept 1904


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059819
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Sikkim
ScientificName: Caesalpinia cucullata
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Caesalpinia
specificEpithet: cucullata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A common climber in Sikkim. Named by Mr JS Gamble in letter to Mr Byer dated Dehra Dun Nov 30 1891


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059820
modified: 2006-09-05 10:16:23.727000
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Sumatra
ScientificName: Pahudia puberula
scientificNameAuthorship: (Miq.) Drees
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pahudia
specificEpithet: puberula
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This is clearly a distinct species but it is not an Intsia but a Pahudia as indicated in Sc. Mem. Med. Off. ? XII 46 (1901). It will therefore be P.puberula Prain. DP 25.8.06.


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modified: 2007-09-26 10:46:19.387000
country: Guatemala
countryCode: GT
locality: Guatemala
ScientificName: Prioria copaifera
scientificNameAuthorship: Griseb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Prioria
specificEpithet: copaifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fruit of a very majestic tree known on the Isthmus of Panama by the natives as Cativa. I have seen the tree on both sides of the isthmus but in greatest abundance in the swamps along the line of the PRR on the Atlantic side. It is often 90to 100 feet in height with a straight and smooth trunk, with greyish almost white bark. The wood of the tree is of very little value having very little strength and not good for fuel although it is often cut for the use of the locomotives of the rail road, but it is full of gummy balsamic substance, which does not help it to burn, and the wood will generally rot before it will dry. It is also quite soft and cuts and splits easily. I have good flowering specimens, which I shall communicate. The fresh leaves of this tree are very beautiful objects on account of the pellucid dots and elegant form. The fruit I send now is not full grown. In Jan last I saw a tree loaded with fruit; I had it felled, but although the pods are nearly full size the seeds proved not to ripe. The singular pods, when ripe fall from the trees, and the overflowing of the swamps floats them off to the rivers by which they are carried to the sea, where they are thrown back upon the beach, often within the reach of the traveller who is apt to regard them as great curios. Sutton Hayes


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059833
recordNumber: 10671
recordedBy: Greenway PJ
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Tanzania
eventDate: 1962-05-26 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 26/05/1962
ScientificName: Pterolobium stellatum
scientificNameAuthorship: (Forssk.) Brenan
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterolobium
specificEpithet: stellatum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Flora of Meesoma ? Dist Tanganyika. See Herbarium Material. 8.1963.M ?1 Grameti ? River 16.1.4 from Khins ???


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basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059853
modified: 2005-04-07 17:58:59.413000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Central Provinces
ScientificName: Tamarindus indica
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Tamarindus
specificEpithet: indica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seoni ? Central Province. Exhibitor: Divisional Forest Officer. No. 724 D.D. Cat.p.24. British India India Museum


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059874
modified: 2005-06-22 12:49:35.860000
locality: Dar Salam
eventDate: 1870-06-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/06/1870
ScientificName: Trachylobium
scientificNameAuthorship: Hayne
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Trachylobium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Unwashed.  As dug from the ground at Dar Salam, on the Mainland, opposite Zanzibar Island.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059875
modified: 2006-08-24 09:52:18.177000
country: Angola
countryCode: AO
locality: Angola
ScientificName: Trachylobium
scientificNameAuthorship: Hayne
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Trachylobium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  It is brought from the interior for barter and is purchased in considerable quantities by the English and American merchants in Ambriz.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059877
modified: 2006-08-24 09:55:51.237000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Zanzibar
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Copal - called Sandarrusi, dug from the ground.  This is the most valuable, and forms, by far, the greatest part of Zanzibar Copal.  Chakazi is of recent deposit.  It is usually found near the roots of existing trees.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059881
modified: 2005-07-08 14:08:00.617000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Dar es Salam
ScientificName: Trachylobium
scientificNameAuthorship: Hayne
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Trachylobium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Zanzibar.  Fine specimen of recent copal, removed from a living tree at Dar es Salam. Gumanimii washed round Copal character Zanibar.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059912
modified: 2003-09-09 09:54:39.393000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Berar, Amraoti
ScientificName: Abrus precatorius
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Abrus
specificEpithet: precatorius
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Exhibitor Divisional Forest Officer No 1 DD Cat p.24 Also packet of 50 seeds weight 5.4 grammes = 1.66671 grains on the average for ?? seed. JHH 18.viii.10


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059917
modified: 2019-07-23 11:12:08.227000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Aeschynomene aspera
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Aeschynomene
specificEpithet: aspera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The tinder is formed of the Shola A.aspera L. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059921
modified: 2006-09-25 14:41:54.797000
country: Ghana
countryCode: GH
locality: Gold Coast
ScientificName: Aeschynomene pfundii
scientificNameAuthorship: Taub.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Aeschynomene
specificEpithet: pfundii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cork wood from which helmet was made. Specimen of 'Corkwood' Mr Patterson Gold Coast B.E.Exhib The specimen appears to be a species of Aeschynomene, or perhaps of an allied genus LAB 24.7.24 Later named from specimens in the Herbarium JHH See letter 403,1924 xvi p.47 and 369,1925 xvi p.141 Comparison of lake Chad Amtatch with specimen of similar wood from Gold Coast. A piece of wood of the Lake Chad Amtatch tree (identified) by Mr Hutchinson with the aid of fruits accompanying it as (Herminiera elaphhroxylon) has been compared with a specimen of similar wood from the Gold Coast (H.1559-24 Mus 61/1924) The anatomical structure of these two specimens appears consistent with their belonging to the same species but it is regarded as undecisiveapart from collateral evidence. Signed LAB 2.10.25


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059936
modified: 2013-09-13 11:07:25.927000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Bahia
ScientificName: Andira araroba
scientificNameAuthorship: Aguiar
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Andira
specificEpithet: araroba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew. H 2334.13 Description to come through under section for foreign affairs.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059937
modified: 2006-08-18 16:25:32.857000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Bahia
ScientificName: Andira araroba
scientificNameAuthorship: Aguiar
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Andira
specificEpithet: araroba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From the British Consulate in Bahia, to Dr Prain Esqure, Director Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. A bottle containing water from the Araroba tree.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059946
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  21.1906. Given to keeper by M Holmes 1906. From specimen in Pharmaceutical Society Museum. Presented to the museum by Dr Christy 1880.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059947
ScientificName: Anthyllis vulneraria
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Anthyllis
specificEpithet: vulneraria
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Des Alpes Maritimes consisting of flowers of Anthyllis vulneriana l. immature pods of Colutea arborescens L. and broken Senna leaves.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059964
modified: 2017-02-22 16:34:42.140000
country: Gambia, The
countryCode: GM
locality: Gambia
ScientificName: Arachis hypogaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Arachis
specificEpithet: hypogaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  'Basse' groundnuts from D of A Gambia (a selection made in 1923 of the D of A in Basse district. Seed going to British Guiana.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059968
modified: 2006-10-23 16:39:21.787000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Rio De Janeiro
ScientificName: Arachis hypogaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Arachis
specificEpithet: hypogaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Museums: sample of groundnuts from Argentina where there is stated to be a local variety. Received from Carlo Moreira. Director Institute Biologico de Def


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059969
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Central Provinces
ScientificName: Arachis hypogaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Arachis
specificEpithet: hypogaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Small Japanese variety with pink skinned kernel. Received from Mr Guery mau.?? Econ. Botanical from Mr Sampson 28.vii.28.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059972
ScientificName: Arachis hypogaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Arachis
specificEpithet: hypogaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  By purchase. 100% pure peanut oil for all culinary purposes. Product of Great Britain.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059982
country: Venezuela
countryCode: VE
locality: Venezuela
ScientificName: Arachis hypogaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Arachis
specificEpithet: hypogaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pistache d`Amerique. Earth nut, pignut, hawknut, pindarnut, underground kidney bean. Dr R de Guy.?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059984
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Central Provinces
ScientificName: Arachis hypogaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Arachis
specificEpithet: hypogaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Recd. from Gounp man??? Ec. Bot. C.P. India. 30.5.28. Part of consignment to be sent to Gambia & British Guiana.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059986
modified: 2006-09-22 15:22:11.463000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Bombay, Surat
ScientificName: Arachis hypogaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Arachis
specificEpithet: hypogaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Govt Agric Station, Furat, Introduced 5 years ago, it is a 2 seeded var with a trailing habit.  Soil is light black.  30 to 40 inches of rainfall with occasional irrigation.  Period of growth 4.5 to 5 months.  3500 lbs of unhusked nuts peracre.  250 rupees per acre.?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059991
modified: 2006-08-24 10:01:00.637000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria, Kano Agricultural Station
ScientificName: Arachis hypogaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Arachis
specificEpithet: hypogaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Holland,  Notes from Album da Seccao do Botanica do Museum Paulista.  - Seeds 3 times as big as those of the common plant.  Seeds reach 3cm legumes exceed 8 cm.  In a figure in this publication, the seeds are very distinctly bicolorous, but the colour areas are very uneven.  Neither BM nor Kew have the original publication with figure.  NY Sandwith Feb 25th, 1932.  The seeds of Mr Sampsons plant are different.  I cannot name it. the pods and seeds of your nambyquarae are evidently muchsmaller than as described by Hoehne. NYJ. 23/iii/32.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000059992
modified: 2006-08-24 10:04:46.250000
country: Argentina
countryCode: AR
locality: Argentine, Buenos Aires
ScientificName: Arachis hypogaea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Arachis
specificEpithet: hypogaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ground nut with variegated testa. Label source:  From Anibal Roberto Millan, Funes 330, Buenos Aires; wishes to know  whether this is distinct sp - was grown from seed grown at Dakak.  In Argentine known as Mani rastrero or Africano - believes it has been in N Argentine and Paraguay for many years.  August 1928


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000006
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand, Australasia
ScientificName: Clematis forsteri
scientificNameAuthorship: J.F.Gmel.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Ranunculaceae
genus: Clematis
specificEpithet: forsteri
occurrenceRemarks:
Note source:  Edit note 1993 -reference for species name, herbarium sheets Curatorial notes source:  420100


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060001
modified: 2006-01-17 17:37:12.540000
recordedBy: Dymock Dr India Office
country: Iran
countryCode: IR
locality: Persia
ScientificName: Astragalus hamosus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Astragalus
specificEpithet: hamosus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  These pods have been proved by Dr Stapf to be those of Astragalus hamosus. In Dymocks Pharmacographia India p.404-05 Vol 1. They are referred to under Trigonella uncota, Boiss. There seems much confusion as to their use IRJ May 1901. Opuscular source:  History, uses etc. - The small crescent-shaped pods which are imported into Bombay from the Persian Gulf under this name are not that those of Melilotus officinalis, but are considered by Arabian writers to be the Melilotus of Dioscorides. The author of the 'Makhzan-ul-adwiya' gives Maleelotus as the Greek name, and geeah-i-kaisar as the Persian. He goes on to say that there are two kinds of Melileot, both plants are much alike, but the fruit of one is crescent shaped, with small roundish seeds, something like fenugreek, while the fruit of the other is much smaller, and only slightly curved; both have an odour like fenugreek. The best fruit for medicinal purposes is hard, yellowish white, and aromatic with yellow seeds. The Mahometans, following the Greeks, hold Melilot in high esteem as a remedy in a great variety of disorders. It is considered to be suppurative and slightly astringent, and is much used as a poltice to dispel tumors and cold swellings. The diseases in which it is administered internally are of a widely different nature, and far too numerous for recapitulation here. For an account of them we must refer the reader to the 'Makhzan' article 'Ikleel-ul-Malik.' The Arabian drug appears to have the same properties as M.officinalis, at any rate it has the same peculiar coumarin odour. Melilotus leucantha, Koch. and M. parviflora Desf., grow in the Bombay Presidency; the first species has a delicate odour of the European Melilot. In the 'Makhzan' an Indian variety of Melilot is mentioned which has very small fruit; it is called Parang. Description- small sickle shaped greyish yellow pods, with a beak slightly curved outwards; distance from base to apex 1/2inch; length of pod when straightened out about 1 inch. It is grooved on both sides, and divided by a central partition into two cells, each of which contains a single row of small greyish yellow rhomboidal seeds, deeply knotched on one side, and seen under the microscope to be marked with numerous black spots. The other kind, withvery small slightly curved pods, mentioned by Mahometan writers, is not found in the shops; it is probably the M. officinalis, or Leucantha, now Alba. Dymock. Pharm Journ.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060010
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
identifiedBy: Prof Xiao Peigen
ScientificName: Astragalus mongholicus
scientificNameAuthorship: Bunge
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Astragalus
specificEpithet: mongholicus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used in China as a tonic, gives you strength. Purchased by Museums staff in London W1.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060017
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Astragalus sinicus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Astragalus
specificEpithet: sinicus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  China and Japan.  Mr Wilson 16th November 1932. Sent to Kew by M Iwansaki, see letter 26 Feb 1932, in Leguminosae cover.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060019
modified: 2006-10-25 14:30:15.083000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Ladak
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  At one time extensively used for making paper in Ladakh.  All the paper made in Lhassa is from this material.  The plant grows profusely on the hills round Ladakh, in dry gravelly soil. 12. Oct 1872?  No 1


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060025
modified: 2006-11-03 12:21:29.420000
country: Iran
countryCode: IR
locality: Persia
ScientificName: Astragalus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Astragalus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Imported into Bombay from Persia.  Penoea sarcocolla. A new light on the source of gum sarcocolla, which is also known in Bombay as Gujar and in Arabia and Persia and Anzeroot is given by Dr Dymock in his Vetetable Materia Medica of Western India.  For a long time this substance has been doubtfully referred to a sp of Penaea, belonging to the natural order Penaeaceae, but it has always been felt to have a very shaky position there, inasmuch as the sp are all African.  Dioscorides describessarcocolla as the tear of a Persian tree, that the gum resembles powdered frankinsense, with a bitterish taste and a reddish colour.  It is seldom seen in Europe at the present time, though it is still largely used in the East as a drug.  It is also usedinternally as an anthirheumatic and anthelmintic, and the Egyptian women eat it on account of its fattening properties.  It is imported into Bombau from the Perisan port of Bushire in bags containing about a cwt.  Dr Dymock says the total quantity imported must be considerable as from twelve to 20 bags may often be seen in a single warehouse.   From pods and other portions of the plant taken from bales of the gum,  he is strongly of the opinion that its source will prove to be one of the desert Leguminoseae, not far removed from Astragalus.  From the entire absence of leaves in the bales it would seem that the sarcocolla is collected by beating the bushes after the leaves have fallen.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060034
modified: 2006-10-31 16:13:56.970000
ScientificName: Astragalus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Astragalus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This gum is said to be picked out of the centre of cut off pieces of stem split open by drying in the sun.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060057
modified: 2006-10-26 11:48:44.037000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa
ScientificName: Borbonia pinifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Marloth
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Borbonia
specificEpithet: pinifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Sample of Kaffir tea, Henry P Stevens, Laboratories, 15 Borough High Street, London Bridge, SE1.  Sample consists of leaves and twigs of a leguminous plant either Borbonia pinifolia or a species of Aspalathus.  Borbonia is the plant from which Rooibos tea is obtained.  Asphalathus tenuifolia DC is also used for tea in S Africa.  The leaves being very similar to Rooibos but black when prepared for use. LaB 10.6.27


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060060
modified: 2006-11-06 12:25:20.743000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa
ScientificName: Borbonia parviflora
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Borbonia
specificEpithet: parviflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Common on the Lion`s Head and on Table Mountain, and used under the significiant name of Stekelthee, apparently with good effect, in asthma and hydrothorax.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060070
modified: 2017-01-10 09:48:05.283000
ScientificName: Brya ebenus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Brya
specificEpithet: ebenus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  These were in the museum prior to 1858. Apparently cocus and not Kokra wood which seems to be a species of Ehretia RJ 1897 Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060088
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Saharunpore
ScientificName: Butea
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb. ex Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Butea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Exhibitor Conservator of Forets School Circle No 333 DD Cat p.3 Produced by an Insect Coccus Lacca on a species of Butea.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060092
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Bombay, Nasik
ScientificName: Butea frondosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb. ex Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Butea
specificEpithet: frondosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ornaments made of fibre prepared from the roots Exhibitor Divisional Forest Officer No 1276


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060101
country: Pakistan
countryCode: PK
locality: Oudh
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No 502,  4482,  57,  37 Substances used as food, agricultural products Sold @ 16 seers per rupee


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060103
modified: 2006-05-08 14:32:18.457000
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The seeds in the sample of Attar Dhal do not agree with seeds of Vicia angustifolia L. (V.sativa var angustifolia H.&A.) nor with those of V.sativa Linn. They are probably the seeds of Cajanus indicus Sprey, which are known as Dhal but as only a few fragments of the seed, coats are present in the sample this identification is somewhat uncertain 2.12.29 (sd) LAB Reply accordingly in answer to letter M1085/29 (?)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060105
modified: 2019-07-09 10:28:44.187000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Punjab
ScientificName: Cajanus cajan var. flavus
scientificNameAuthorship: (DC.) Purseglove
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Cajanus
specificEpithet: cajan
infraspecificEpithet: flavus
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Exhibitors name Punjab Committee. To illustrate the agricultural products of Punjab. No. 501 4481. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060117
modified: 2006-04-20 14:58:27.013000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Leh
ScientificName: Calophaca cuneata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Benth.) Kom.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Calophaca
specificEpithet: cuneata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No. 13 probably now Sweet pea. On dry hot gravel. The seed of a pea that has its foliage and flowers just as if cut out of velvet. The flowers from a pink to a deep purple. Calyx bronze.  The leaves discolour, somewhat resembling the flowers, grows on a dry hot gravelly soil.  It is a common weed in especial? localities but does not grow near Leh itself.  Dr Aitchison 1873.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060145
modified: 2006-10-12 14:53:09.943000
country: Taiwan
countryCode: TW
locality: Formosa
ScientificName: Canavalia
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Canavalia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Beans from pod one foot long.  Leguminous climber Pi-tou near Tchow, Formosa. Called sword bean (Kuan tou ton?)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060157
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Carmichaelia multicaulis
scientificNameAuthorship: Colenso
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Carmichaelia
specificEpithet: multicaulis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Chewed branches leave and unsightly mess of chewed hanging fibres. Trans NZ Institute. Vol xxv, p 329


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060159
modified: 2006-04-21 12:40:28.513000
locality: South America
ScientificName: Cicer arietinum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Cicer
specificEpithet: arietinum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Machotes brand chickpeas, this product has been prepared especially to satisfy the good taste of the Latin American grain drinker. Fresh chickpeas are carefully selected, roasted, ground and packed the same day to assure thier superb aromaand flavour. How to prepare : mix equal parts of Machotes ground chickpeas and your favourite coffee and proceed inthe same manner you prepare you regular coffee or use alone and follow the same procedure as with coffee. This will provide extra savings plus a delicious touch of taste to your beverage.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006016
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Cordova
ScientificName: Spondias purpurea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Spondias
specificEpithet: purpurea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  An evergreen tree 40 to 60 feet high. Wood hard and durable. Much used for house posts and beams.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060162
modified: 2007-01-18 12:15:15.357000
country: Spain
countryCode: ES
locality: Spain
ScientificName: Cicer arietinum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Cicer
specificEpithet: arietinum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purchased from Soho Provision Store 18.12.1951. Said to be imported from Spain and chiefly eaten by the Spanish community. Boiled slow for about 1 hour and used like haricots in salads etc.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006017
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Cordova
ScientificName: Spondias purpurea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Spondias
specificEpithet: purpurea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  An evergreeen tree 40 to 60 feet high./ Wood hard and durable. Much used for house posts and beams.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060173
modified: 2006-04-19 15:57:18.563000
country: Portugal
countryCode: PT
locality: Portugal
ScientificName: Coronilla glauca
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Coronilla
specificEpithet: glauca
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Verified in Herbarium Letter 253,1921 : xiv p.117 Sent by John H Wilson Quinta da Piedade, Poroa de Santa Tria, Portugal. Identification as C.glauca and particulars as to use as a fodder. Copy of letters in food products copy JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060174
modified: 2016-12-13 11:17:10.850000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Western Australia
ScientificName: Crotalaria dissitiflora
scientificNameAuthorship: Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Crotalaria
specificEpithet: dissitiflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used by the natives of Western Australia for making ropes, twine etc. The plants are soaked in water and beaten out, the fibre is then washed and dried in the sun. See letter to D Hooker dated 10 ?? 72


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060189
modified: 2006-05-04 16:37:40.683000
country: Venezuela
countryCode: VE
locality: Venezuela, Caracas
ScientificName: Crotalaria stipularia
scientificNameAuthorship: Desv.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Crotalaria
specificEpithet: stipularia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This herb is to be found in fresh and dried state for sale on the arches of Caracas, La Guayra every day and is generally used by the inhabitants.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060216
modified: 2009-05-20 15:40:01.170000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Cape of Good Hope
ScientificName: Cyclopia falcata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Harv.) Kies
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Cyclopia
specificEpithet: falcata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This popular beverage was first found in the Cape Colony about the year 1870.  It is largely used by the rural populations of the Cape and neighbouring colonies.  It is indigenous to the Cape and is inter exported throughout the whole of S Africa.  It is valuable to dyspeptics, and it drunk with impunity and with beneficial effects. It is recommended by many of the medical profession, in the place of tea and coffee, as a mild exhilarating and soothing beverage. In the prepared state it can  be made in the same way as ordinary tea, allowing it to draw in the teapot for say fifteen minutes, and adding milk and sugar as desired.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060219
modified: 2007-08-31 12:22:10.083000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa
ScientificName: Cyclopia
scientificNameAuthorship: Vent.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Cyclopia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Of recent years one of the most popular beverages in the form of Rooi Bush or Red Bush has come into public favour. It is largely used by the Elite of Rural districts, and is valued for its soothing effect upon the system. Dyspeptics, and those troubled with nervous disorders, drink this charming beverage with impunity. It can be infused in the same way as ordinary tea, allowing one teaspoonful for every cup desired. Allow the beverage to infuse for five minutes.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060221
modified: 2005-08-19 16:38:26.247000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Cape Flats near Wynberg, Houtbay etc
ScientificName: Cyclopia genistoides
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) R.Br.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Cyclopia
specificEpithet: genistoides
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  As infusion it is used for promoting expectoration in chronic catarrh, and even in consumption.  It has a sweet, astringent taste, and is generally considered as a restorative.  Its vernacular name is Honigthee.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060244
modified: 2006-02-14 16:45:35.500000
country: Ecuador
countryCode: EC
locality: Ecuador
ScientificName: Dalbergia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 175, 1918 : xii p.87 recd for name 19.iv.18. Examined by Mr Boodle suggested Dalbergieae Letter 175 dated April 30 1918, the Director Imperial Inst acknowledges the receipt of his letter of the 18th instant and in reply to say that the sample of aromatic bark (No. 1716/18) from Ecuador has been compared with several barks in the Museum, but it has not been found possible to identify it. The structure is similar in some respects to that of the bark of Piscidia erythrina Linn.; the suggestion is therefore made that the bark may belong to one of the Dalbergieae.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060263
modified: 2016-12-15 12:50:34.667000
country: BU
countryCode: BU
locality: Burma
ScientificName: Dalbergia oliveri
scientificNameAuthorship: Gamble ex Prain
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
specificEpithet: oliveri
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purchased from and made by Forestry Dept at Rangoon, Burma 1928. Wood said to be that of Dalbergia oliveri. Top may be Millettia sp.?  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060264
modified: 2018-04-10 18:14:16.613000
ScientificName: Dalbergia latifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
specificEpithet: latifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Exhib. no. 1867 6458. Ahmed.  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060266
modified: 2005-08-08 16:12:48.810000
ScientificName: Derris elliptica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
specificEpithet: elliptica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Samples of tuba root. McDougal & Robertson, ltd., 66/68 Port Street, Manchester. The thick roots (not labelled) and the fine roots appear to belong to a species of Derris, possibly Derris elliptica. The piece labelled 'coarse root' does not belong to Derris or even to the Leguminosae. It should be described as stem, and it probably belongs to the Dilleniaceae. L.A.B. 24.2.22.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060267
modified: 2005-08-08 12:56:43.933000
locality: New Guinea
ScientificName: Derris elliptica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
specificEpithet: elliptica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Henry Devett & Co, Dunster House, Mincing Lane, E.C. Roots from New Guinea; used by natives for catching fish. The roots are dried & ground to a powder which the natives spread over coral reefs where the fish abound. The fish become stupefied by the root and then are easily caught. Rec'd. 27.8.1897.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060269
modified: 2012-05-14 12:34:48.103000
ScientificName: Derris elliptica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
specificEpithet: elliptica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From McDougall Brothers Ltd., Manufacturing & Agricultural Chemists, 66 & 68 Port Street, Manchester.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060275
modified: 2008-10-21 12:59:25.567000
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Banjermassin
ScientificName: Derris
scientificNameAuthorship: Lour.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The fruit and seeds are eaten when half ripe. The wood is used for handles of knives, being hard and not liable to split. XIX.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060279
locality: Borneo?
identifiedBy: Boodle LA
ScientificName: Derris
scientificNameAuthorship: Lour.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  (Letter 41, 1920;xiii. p.119) The specimen appears to be the root of a species of Derris. L.A.B. 9.2.20


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060280
locality: Borneo
ScientificName: Derris elliptica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
specificEpithet: elliptica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 578,1921, xiv p185.  See memo by Mr Boodle in Poison Pl. Cover. 21.xii.21, JHH. Nichols, Export and Import Merchants


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060282
locality: East Indies, Sikkim, and North Brazil
ScientificName: Derris
scientificNameAuthorship: Lour.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  D. ferruginea, D amoena, D uliginosa, D robusta, D discolor, D scandens from East Indies. D elegans from Burma. D microptera from Sikkim, D longifolia and D negrensis from N Brazil.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060284
modified: 2006-12-04 18:01:06.210000
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Malay States
ScientificName: Derris elliptica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
specificEpithet: elliptica
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter 526, 1923, xv p150. 2nd Jan, 1924, Messrs Whiffen & Sons, Ltd.  Refer to letter of 13th inst advising receipt of the samples of derris root fr report and to say that the samples have now been examined.  It has been found that all 3 samples appear to be those of Derris, cf D elliptica.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060285
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: British North Borneo
ScientificName: Derris
scientificNameAuthorship: Lour.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Roots are beaten in water to which they impart a white  frothy appearance and the mixture is poured into the pool to be poisoned.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060287
modified: 2007-08-16 12:46:49.623000
locality: Borneo
ScientificName: Derris elliptica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
specificEpithet: elliptica
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter 266, 1918. xii p 115.  Sample of roots from Borneo.  The Cooper Tech Bureau, 11 Broad Street, Bloomsbury, WC 2. The roots agree in structure with those of D elliptica Benth. and probably belong to that sp.  The root of D elliptica is known as Tuba root from the Malayan name.  The root which has strongly toxic properties, has been used as a fish poison in Malaya and elsewhere, and also as an insecticide.  Details are given by Wray, Pharm Journal 3 ser. volume 23, p 61 (1892) The poisonous principle derrid (or tubain of Wray) is stated to have the chemical formula C33 H30 O10, and to be  present in the root to the amount of 2.5 to 3 per cent.  For the results of chemical investigation, papers by van Sillevoldt and Greshoff should be  consulted, viz. Sillevoldt Arch. Pharm. 1899 vol 237 p 595. and Greshoff, Ber Pharm Ges. 1899 vol 9 p 214. as well as the earlier publications Greshoff Ber Chem Ges 1890, vol 23, p 3538, and Wray, Pharm Journ loc cit.  See also Pharm Journ 3 ser vol 21 p 559(1890) LaB 28.6.18


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060288
modified: 2019-07-18 11:55:16.540000
country: Singapore
countryCode: SG
locality: Singapore, Botanic Gardens
ScientificName: Derris elliptica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Derris
specificEpithet: elliptica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See letter 309, Dr Durham, Dunelon, Hereford, 28th June 1922, xiv p 267. In reference to a technical description he had kindly consented to do of the roots of tuba for his friend Gimlettes book and now sending for the purpose some Derris elliptica, with Burkill's hallmark on it from Singapore in two lots with the original labels 2.  Specimens of Tuba grown in the Gardens at Singapore where they had established beds for their own use, stating 'this is undoubtedly Tuba'. JHH. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060290
modified: 2005-04-18 17:13:01.863000
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: Guyana
ScientificName: Dioclea reflexa
scientificNameAuthorship: Hook.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dioclea
specificEpithet: reflexa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The spotted on red ground form seeds like this in BM from the W Indies.  cf Guppys plants seeds and C? for mention of the two colour forms of Dioclea reflexa.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060294
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Andaman Island
ScientificName: Dioclea reflexa
scientificNameAuthorship: Hook.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dioclea
specificEpithet: reflexa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Taken from pod attached to Herb specimen received from Capt Gage. See note on pod in  Herb Sp. JMH 31.3.11


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060302
recordNumber: 9935
modified: 2005-08-02 17:18:10.493000
recordedBy: Burchell WJ
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil
ScientificName: Dipteryx odorata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Aubl.) Forsyth f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dipteryx
specificEpithet: odorata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Picked up in the forest and perhaps is the other species of Purmarin (?) without a sugary pod and with lepodorous seed. 18.12.29


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060303
country: Venezuela
countryCode: VE
locality: Venezuela
ScientificName: Dipteryx odorata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Aubl.) Forsyth f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dipteryx
specificEpithet: odorata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Miss A Cobbett, fruit specimen from Venezuela. Holbrook Hampton Park Hereford Letter dated Dec 13 1926 JHH 17.xii.26. See copy of reply


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060311
modified: 2005-08-02 15:24:12.897000
locality: Mosquito Country
ScientificName: Dipteryx oleifera
scientificNameAuthorship: Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dipteryx
specificEpithet: oleifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  1. Entire fruits 2. Longitudinal sections of fruit shewing seed entire. 3. Longitudinal sections of fruit shewing section of seed 4. Transverse section of fruit 5. Seeds removed from fruit 6. Longitudinal sections of seed 7. Entire seed showing cotyledon (c) and radicle (r)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060313
modified: 2004-07-20 12:23:22.053000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Barra de Rio Negro, Nr Cachoeirinha
ScientificName: Dipteryx
scientificNameAuthorship: Schreb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dipteryx
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Small tree, 15 ft, un-branched, with a crown of large pinnate leaves and large terminal panicle


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060330
country: Sudan
countryCode: SD
locality: Sudan
ScientificName: Erythrina abyssinica
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Erythrina
specificEpithet: abyssinica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Probably E.tomentosa R.Br. The tomentum may have been rubbed off the pods JAL 31.x.05


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060335
ScientificName: Erythrina corallodendron
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Erythrina
specificEpithet: corallodendron
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Resembles E.corallodendron more than any other species of which the fruit is known to me. JAL 31.x.05


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060340
modified: 2004-03-17 11:03:20.583000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Ecuador
countryCode: EC
locality: Ecuador, Andes
ScientificName: Erythrina edulis
scientificNameAuthorship: Triana ex Micheli
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Erythrina
specificEpithet: edulis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pods with edible seeds, Andes of Ecuador where it is called Frijol del Monte or in in Junchua Sacha-porota, both names signifying wood kidney bean Erythrina sp Spruce (5005) Feb 20/65


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060353
modified: 2005-07-27 17:33:51.553000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa, North Victoria or Queenstown
ScientificName: Erythrina acanthocarpa
scientificNameAuthorship: E.Mey.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Erythrina
specificEpithet: acanthocarpa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This plant grows in great abundance in the district of N. Victoria or Queenstown, South Africa. When first dug up the tubers are very heavy, but when thoroughly dry become as light as cork. The natives make hats and other light articles from them. This specimen dug up at Tylden Post on the Imrani River, a tributary of the Kei. Feburary 1861.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060359
modified: 2005-07-28 11:46:53.043000
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Java
ScientificName: Euchresta horsfieldii
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lesch.) Benn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Euchresta
specificEpithet: horsfieldii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The plant is said to be difficult to grow in the Dutch Gardens at Buitenzorg and has been a failure.  In W Java at Tjibo the plant occurs in the wild state but does not fruit.  I am situated in East Java, Alas Besoeki being a coffee, tea and cinchona estate, and this plant comes forward in the jungle it requires a heavy shade and grows from 2 to 3 ft high, the seeds are first green and then turn to bluish black having a strong resemblance to pea berry coffee. I have not seen the plant in flower here but it fruits here, elevation 2700 to 3000 ft, climate very humid, rain falls all the year round more or less.  Tree ferns, ferns and orchids abound.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060377
country: Chile
countryCode: CL
locality: Chile
ScientificName: Geoffroea decorticans
scientificNameAuthorship: (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Burkart
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Geoffroea
specificEpithet: decorticans
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See letter 325. 1915, and 334, 1915.  Natives prepare and syrup from them by boiling which is said to cure throat troubles and chest complaints.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060398
modified: 2013-02-25 13:15:49.750000
country: SU
countryCode: SU
locality: Russia
ScientificName: Glycine max
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Glycine
specificEpithet: max
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Weight of crop 2900 lbs per acre Stuart R Cope, 33 Great Tower St, London Opuscular source:  Letter 518,1913 : viii p.181 I should like to bring to your notice a recent report I have received from the Special Agent in charge of the US Deptof Agriculture at the Hawaii Experimental Station Honolulu, respecting a selected variety of soya beans I have been offering to planters during the past year or so. The report states: 'With regard to the soya beans which you sent for testing the first planting encountered rather unfavourable conditions, but the second planting grew to a height of 16 to 19 inches matured in 80 to 90 days and yeilded at a rate of 2900 lbs per acre. This is the best yield of all the varieties of soya beans with which we have experimented'.  I submitted this report to the Oil Seeds Assoc of Liverpool, and the secretary writes to me that this return is better than anything else he has yet met with.  I have had the seeds tested in bulk by the Hull Oil Manufacturing Co Ltd andthe report is that the oil contents are 2% more than any other soya beans they have yet met with.  (Letter to Mr Stuart Cope 33 Great Tower St London 16 Oct 1913 to Director) 'The country of origin is Russia: they are part of the parcel which I supplied to the US Dept of Agric Hawaii' (Mr Cope 20 Oct 1913 to Director)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060431
modified: 2013-02-25 13:17:16.040000
ScientificName: Glycine max
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Glycine
specificEpithet: max
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Royal Botanic Society of London May 18th 1920, to J H Holland, Museum Kew, Dear Sir, Reading your account of Glycine soya in the Kew Bulletin 1919 and being the grower and exhibitor of the plants shown at the Food Economy Exhibition at the Institute of Hygiene in 1918, it occurred to me that you might care to have for the museum plants of my variety as grown here. I have two plants of last year left showing pods and also with nodules on the roots and should be pleasure to bring them one day next week on hearing from you. I have tested many varieties but found none equal to it. The U.S. Dept. of Agric to whom, at their request, I sent seeds described it as a very prolific variety not a pure form but one from which still better forms might be obtained by selection. They believed it came originally from Harbin. Yours faithfully J h North. Accepted & asked to call as suggested. Plants recd. 02/06/1920. J.H.H.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060445
modified: 2019-07-09 11:52:20.507000
ScientificName: Glycine max
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Glycine
specificEpithet: max
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  For use in curries and steak and kidney pies. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060446
modified: 2007-09-11 12:11:02.663000
ScientificName: Glycine max
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Glycine
specificEpithet: max
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used in meat stews, curries steak and kidney pies, pasties, oriental dishes and shepherds pie, etc.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060447
modified: 2006-07-24 17:20:16.203000
ScientificName: Glycine max
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Glycine
specificEpithet: max
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  To control manufacturing costs by facilitating the use of lower grade fats and rinds.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060460
modified: 2019-07-09 11:49:40.830000
ScientificName: Glycine max
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Glycine
specificEpithet: max
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used in retorted products and ideal as a stabilizer in emulsions using low grade fats. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060462
modified: 2019-07-09 11:48:01.447000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Surrey, Esher
ScientificName: Glycine max
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Glycine
specificEpithet: max
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Suitable for cultivation in Britain. - Green jap, Jellow J. Black O. Brown C. Sown May 28, 1935, harvested Oct 15 1935.  Seed obtained from Mr North. These vars described in Miss Bowdidge's book on the soy bean published 1934, Oxford Univ Press FNH 5.12.1935 Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no. 1. May 1998 to May 2016v


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060470
modified: 2006-05-18 15:16:38.223000
country: Iran
countryCode: IR
locality: Persia
ScientificName: Glycyrrhiza glabra
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Glycyrrhiza
specificEpithet: glabra
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Aitchison says the plant is common in Badghis and Khorasan, at an alt of over 2000 ft and most luxuriant in loamy soil where there is moisture.  In the latter localities the annual shoots grow to four feet with enormous underground rootstocks, which are sometimes used as fuel.  The nomads collect these root stocks from which they prepare the extract of liquorice.  Post marked that in Syria it is a variable sp in waste fields and on dry hillsides, crowding out other vegetation.  Schlimmer refers to 3 sp, G glabra, G echinata, and G violacea, while Boissier makes several varieties of this plant.  It occurs in Baluchistan, India obtains market supplies from Persia and Sind, and Aitchison suggested its cultivation in Quetta, Kohat Peshawar andother NW Frontier localities.  Throughout Asia liquorice root and its extract are used for cough and chest complaints.  In N Persia the fibre of the root left after the prep. of the extract has been known to be made into paper.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060477
ScientificName: Halimodendron argenteum
scientificNameAuthorship: (Lam.) Fisch. ex DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Halimodendron
specificEpithet: argenteum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  In arenosis deserti Soongoro-Kirghisici ad fl. Irtysch et lacum Noor saissan frequens.  Leg. Karelin et kiriloff.  Soc Imp Nat Cur Mosqu.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060481
modified: 2006-07-03 15:38:04.573000
country: Algeria
countryCode: DZ
locality: Algeria
ScientificName: Hedysarum coronarium
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Hedysarum
specificEpithet: coronarium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From a sample of Algerian hay Opuscular source:  Letter - Fishers Buildings, 20 Victoria Street, Liverpool dated 20th Dec 1907 to JM Hillier Esq.  Dear Sir, Mr Alfred Smetham, of Liverpool, advised us to send you, which we are doing today by parcel post, a sample of hay, which has been taken from a parcel of Algerian hay. We may tell you that we have imported some thousands of tons of this hay, and until now have never been asked what is our opinion of the properties, as per sample we are sending you. And further they ask us whether it is injurious or not. Can you assist us by giving your opinion as to wether it is injurious for feeding horses or cows. This information will be very valuable to us. In our own mind we have no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that there is nothing injurious in it. We gain this knowledge by the fact that the principal horse owners, not only in London and Liverpool, have used this hay to a very great extent. Should you wish for any further information we shall be gald to forward same to you. The horse owners here that have asked us this question particularly draw our attention to the heads of the hay, which seems the part that they wish to find whether it is injurious. They call our attention to the red heads of the grasses (Sgnd) Henry W Peabody & Co Named in herbarium - the prickly pods might cause inflammation  WBH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060488
modified: 2006-07-03 16:15:52.367000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Bombay
ScientificName: Indigofera cordifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: B.Heyne ex Roth
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Indigofera
specificEpithet: cordifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Survey Commissioners & Director L.R. & Agric Bombay Registration No 10338, file No 45


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060494
modified: 2006-05-18 11:49:37.080000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Bombay
ScientificName: Indigofera glandulosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb. ex Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Indigofera
specificEpithet: glandulosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Survey Commissioner & Director L.R. & Agric Bombay, registration No 10337, file No 45


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060496
modified: 2006-05-18 11:50:36.223000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Bombay
ScientificName: Indigofera linifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.f.) Retz.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Indigofera
specificEpithet: linifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Survey Commissioners & Director of L.R. & Agric Bombay, reg No 10336, file No 45


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060504
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica
ScientificName: Indigofera tinctoria
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Indigofera
specificEpithet: tinctoria
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Indigo prepared by the scalding process by Mr Thos Reid, Springmount, St Anns Jamaica


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006051
recordNumber: 387
modified: 2006-07-03 15:35:58.640000
recordedBy: Iltis Hugh H, Iltis Frank, Keoppen Robert
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Michoacan
eventDate: 1960-07-24 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 24/07/1960
ScientificName: Coriaria thymifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Coriariaceae
genus: Coriaria
specificEpithet: thymifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Map included with wood. Shrub 12-15 feet high, berries red, flowers greenish with white margin, growing along fence rows and old road cuts. Probably weedy. A. Pinus-Quercus-Arbutus woods with tussock-grass understory. B. Deep, rather moistgullies in reddish clay, in (A). C. Weeds in cultivated fields. D. Open Quercus-Pinus- Arbutus woods with tussock grasses on steep volcanic cone, W. Slope. (2nd hill N. of the Cerro de Imagen) Volcanic ash hills & valleys 2Km. N & NE of Puentacillas (ca.7 km N. of Ario de Rosales) Alt. 2200-2400m.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060515
modified: 2006-08-24 10:02:04.793000
country: Saint Lucia
countryCode: LC
locality: St Lucia
ScientificName: Indigofera tinctoria
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Indigofera
specificEpithet: tinctoria
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grown in the Island of St Lucia. Valued at about 2s per lb. Indigo prepared from plants Label source: Indigo prepared by Mr JC Moore from plants grown in the Bot Gard St Lucia West Indies. 'The leaves are fermented in a large wooden cask for 16 hours or so then the liquid run off into two smaller casks beaten for 3-4 hrs. The precipitate did not form in less time, the beating being done in the morning from 9-12 or thereabouts, the liquid was left till the following morning befor being run off. The indigo meed ? was them put in bags to strain off as much water as possible and afterwards dried in the shade on boards giving the sample as here represented.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060534
modified: 2011-06-14 16:03:32.927000
recordedBy: Lunt W
country: Yemen
countryCode: YE
locality: Southern Arabia, Shibam
ScientificName: Indigofera
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Indigofera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Nos 168 and 173.  It is cult all the year round.  After a months growth it is cut off and dried in the sun for 2 or 3 days; it is then powdered and placed in the water in large vessels and constantly stirred for about 3 or 4 hours, it is then allowed to stand until the following morning (12 to 18 hours).  The remains of the plant are then taken out, and the colouring matter is then drawn off and laid on cloths in shallow hollows in the ground.  The water drains away leaving a thick deposit of indigo dye for dyeing about 1lb of Thub? is mixed with 3 or 4 lbs of dye. They also put in a few dates which we supposed to fasten the dye.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060541
modified: 2017-01-10 09:49:51.837000
country: Niger
countryCode: NE
locality: Niger
ScientificName: Indigofera tinctoria
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Indigofera
specificEpithet: tinctoria
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The cotton fibres are used to hold the balls together Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060542
country: BU
countryCode: BU
locality: Burma, Southern Shan States
ScientificName: Indigofera pulchella
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Indigofera
specificEpithet: pulchella
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Caused by insects - Eriophyer? - very common on Indigofera in India. Mr JS Gamble per Herb Kew. Flora of Burma.  Indigofera elliptica Roxb.?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060546
modified: 2006-09-05 10:34:11.237000
locality: Southern Arabia
ScientificName: Indigofera argentea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Indigofera
specificEpithet: argentea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Indigo as prepared at Shibam - the stems are powdered and mixed with the indigo in the course of manufacture.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060550
modified: 2006-08-23 17:37:41.947000
country: Cameroon
countryCode: CM
locality: French Cameroons, North of Gama?
ScientificName: Kerstingiella
scientificNameAuthorship: Harms
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Kerstingiella
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fruits from wild Kerstingiella and another unknown sp from 15 and 6 miles north of Gama respectively.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060558
modified: 2006-08-24 10:13:29.460000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Bengal
ScientificName: Lablab purpureus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Sweet
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lablab
specificEpithet: purpureus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Exhibitors name - Madras Committee Madras, To illustrate the agricultural products of Madras used as food. No 508


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060569
modified: 2006-10-24 12:22:37.767000
identifiedBy: Verdcourt Dr B
ScientificName: Lablab purpureus subsp. purpureus
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lablab
specificEpithet: purpureus
infraspecificEpithet: purpureus
taxonRank: SUBSPECIES
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Obtained at New Taj Stores, Brick Lane, London E.1. Known as Seim in Bengali shops. Opuscular source:  To go with Lablab p. ssp p. specimens. Laura, I would say it was subsp purpureus - as to cultivar names I am not sure there are any really. I have looked in Rivels and it is very similar to what he says is very close to Dolichos leucocarpus Savi. So it could be called Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet subsp purpureus cultivar 'close to that represented by Dolichos leucocarpus savi' but it wouldbe better to give it a definite Hindi name for that type only. I think Seim refers to a whole range. Rivels ( Rev. last Bot. Appl. 33:314-322 & 518-537) does quite well with the range of variation but does not formalise a classification of varieties.Thisneeds doing but would be a big job and should be done by an Asian botanist. Wealth of India 3:104 gives more native names. Sorry that's the best I can do. If you do not want the pods please send them back to me. They ought to be kept I think. Dr B Verdcourt. 13.03.1985.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060583
modified: 2006-09-18 16:40:13.950000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Transvaal, Barberton
ScientificName: Lathyrus sativus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lathyrus
specificEpithet: sativus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Reply - Seed identified as Lathyrus sativus  - there is no seed of Vicia sativa var angustifolia present in this sample.  March 28.1931


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060585
modified: 2006-09-22 11:43:53.780000
country: SU
countryCode: SU
locality: Russia
identifiedBy: Hutchinson J
ScientificName: Lathyrus sativus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lathyrus
specificEpithet: sativus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Holland - the seeds in these packets seem to be correctly named.  I can find nothing further about the various names JH. 23.9.16. Label source:  Verified in Herb.  White seed. 25 = 5 grammes.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006059
modified: 2006-07-03 15:31:41.320000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil
ScientificName: Connarus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Connaraceae
genus: Connarus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample of Brazilian wood for identification. Wood is extremely hard & heavy and has a characteristic figure in the end grain. Wolverhampton. See letter 176,1927 XVll p.87.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060597
modified: 2006-08-24 09:49:10.110000
ScientificName: Lathyrus sativus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lathyrus
specificEpithet: sativus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter Mr Holland M155-30, seeds from R & W Paul Ltd Ipswich, I do not think that there is any 'Mutter' among the seeds which have more or less the appearance of lentils seeds, and I suppose that the latter are a kind of lentils LA B 18.2.30


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060604
modified: 2008-06-06 16:13:27.593000
ScientificName: Lens esculenta
scientificNameAuthorship: Moench
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lens
specificEpithet: esculenta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Lentils 'petite a la Reine' Miss Harriette Chick letter 45.1917 xi p.111 Feb 6 1917 'Lentille verte du Puy' Vilmorin Andrieus (?) Miss Herriette Chick Letter 45, 1917 xi p.111 Feb 6 Weighed by Mr Budderly Feb 7th 1917 JHH - 1 gramme, 34


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060605
ScientificName: Lens esculenta
scientificNameAuthorship: Moench
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lens
specificEpithet: esculenta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Lister Institute of preventive medicine Letter 185,1917 : xi p.149  May 1917 Lens esculenta JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060609
modified: 2019-07-09 10:22:11.903000
ScientificName: Lens esculenta
scientificNameAuthorship: Moench
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lens
specificEpithet: esculenta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Large de gallerdon Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060621
modified: 2007-06-25 14:24:07.720000
ScientificName: Lens esculenta
scientificNameAuthorship: Moench
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lens
specificEpithet: esculenta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample of lentils supplied by Benjamim Smith & Sons Feb 1917 Lister Inst of Preventive Medicine Letter 185.1917 xi p.149 L. esulentus 21 May 1917 JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060624
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa, Cape Of Good Hope
ScientificName: Lessertia
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lessertia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Compared in Herbarium April 12 1907 JHH Used for same purposes as Sutherlandia frutescens


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060629
modified: 2019-07-09 10:23:47.907000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Bengal
ScientificName: Lens esculenta
scientificNameAuthorship: Moench
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lens
specificEpithet: esculenta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Beyal Howiah Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060637
modified: 2010-07-15 10:47:11.187000
ScientificName: Lonchocarpus
scientificNameAuthorship: Kunth
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lonchocarpus
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts, To F N Howes, Kew, Herewith a small portion of 'cube' - it is about one third of what was sent to me. I hope it will be enough for your purpose. I have no information as to original source of the specimen, presumably Peru. It was sent me from the U.S.A. Insceticides Division Washington. Yours  very truely, F Tattersfield.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060640
modified: 2006-07-03 15:26:15.987000
country: Peru
countryCode: PE
locality: Peru
ScientificName: Lonchocarpus
scientificNameAuthorship: Kunth
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lonchocarpus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Recd. from Rosing Bros & Co Ltd. Invil House 33-36 King William Street E.C. 4 as `cube` or Babasco from Peru. No doubt Lonchocarpus sp or probably L. nicou. (Letter M42/1932).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060660
modified: 2006-11-30 16:17:58.263000
locality: Palestine
ScientificName: Lupinus termis
scientificNameAuthorship: Forssk.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Lupinus
specificEpithet: termis
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  M 503,32.  From MacDonald Ltd, 67 Hope St, Glasgow.  Enclosed sample of lupine from Palestine.  We have had the sample analysed with the following results.  Oil - 9.26, Albumenoids - 35.88, Carbohydrate - 33.67, Fibre - 9.66, Mineral  matter - 2.98, water - 8.47, Sand in mineral matter - 0.05,  Food units - 147.  We were considering buying some for feeding purposes.  We have never handled it before and are not just sure whether it would be suitable for feeding purposes or not.  Asking if similar to beans, gram etc - used extensively here for feeding and we wonder if this would act as a substitute. Extract from letter M503/32 - June 15. JHH, Answer given to Mr Robinson 15.vi 32.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060674
modified: 2019-07-18 10:34:48.913000
country: Peru
countryCode: PE
locality: Peru, Southern America, Western South America, Urubamba Valley
ScientificName: Zea mays
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Poaceae
genus: Zea
specificEpithet: mays
occurrenceRemarks:
Collected in Urubamba Valley, 1971 Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060675
modified: 2006-11-29 15:41:09.300000
ScientificName: Dalbergia latifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
specificEpithet: latifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Note from CB Clarke to Mr Jackson dated 9 Feb 1883.  Shortly after I received your note Mr Dyer came in and he gave me a sketch of your model from which I feel sure it is of the Kootub near Dehli.  It stands about 8 miles from the present town.  The Taj is at Agra.  I will look in on the model when next I am in the garden and verify; but I think the above is sure to be right.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060677
modified: 2025-09-12 11:34:51.440000
country: Switzerland
countryCode: CH
locality: Switzerland, Berne, Middle Europe, Europe
ScientificName: Clematis vitalba
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Ranunculaceae
genus: Clematis
specificEpithet: vitalba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used for carrying loads on the shoulder  Basket made chiefly from the stems of clematis vitalba, used for carrying loads on the shoulder, Berne 4 August 1887. See M. Bichard, European Basketry p. 171 Baskets from open air museum, Ballenberg. Stake and strand. Wooden base with wooden stakes set into it. Weavers of clematis. Thicker weaves for top edge, handle bow is from one corner to adjacent one, on long side. (Basket is suprisingly heavy and sturdy).   EBN: 95.1887 Label: Desmond II. FRS 1880. KCHG 1899. Prof Nat. Hist, R. Ag Coll, Cirencester 1868. Prof. Bot. R. Coll Sci., Dublin 1870, Prof Bot. RHS 1872. Assist. Dir. RBGKew 1875, Dir. 1885-1905.  Kew Bull. 3rd Director of Kew, 1875 start of official connection with Kew. Appointed Assistant Director post has been in abeyance, resurrected by Hooker. Has smuggled him onto as “man likely to make his mark in the botany world. Succeeded Sir Joseph in 1885. Good at small detail & broad approach. TD. Sawl role of Kew in Empire. Hooker recognises “the remark able power of visions” of TD. Nor a traveller, but extremely well read. For development of Economic Botany enterprise appointed CMG & KCMG. 1882/99. Floras of British India. Started Kew Bull.   Notes made by Ruth Stungo, trasncribed by CJ.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006069
modified: 2008-10-21 13:03:50.067000
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Borneo, Banjermassin
identifiedBy: Gasson, P
ScientificName: Eusideroxylon
scientificNameAuthorship: Teijsm. & Binn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Lauraceae
genus: Eusideroxylon
occurrenceRemarks:
Specimen first named as Abrus pulcherrimus, but reidentified by the Jodrell Anatomy Section (Peter Gasson) as a Lauraceae  - and a good match with Eusideroxylon. (17.11.2000)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060710
modified: 2006-11-28 15:54:12.733000
country: France
countryCode: FR
locality: North France
ScientificName: Medicago lupulina
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Medicago
specificEpithet: lupulina
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Les Casses de Minettes (see letter 203. 1904) 1. Minette = Medicago lupulina Eur. Am. Hor. 2881 Cat. Polyglotte ? p.310. 2. Medicago lupulina Linn. Fl. Br. Ind. 11.90. Fodder - a common weed collected frequently for fodder. Dict. Econ. ProdInd. (Hab.) 3. See specimen amongst Linseed adulterants. 4. Fl. Br. Ind. II 90. Pod minute linear sickle shaped unarmed, one seeded; 1/2/12 no. long indehiscent, glabrous or downy, faintly veined longitudinally, finally black. 5. Black Medick (Medicagolupulina) E. Nilezek (Chron. Agr.  ? land 8/1895) no. 4 pp. 82-84) At Zurich black Medick from Gernamy gave a larger yield of forage, produced larger leaves of seeds and proved hardier but was later in reaching maturity than seed from Germany. Exp. St. Record N.S.A. No. 6 1894-95/808). 6. Medicago lupulina Black Medick. An annual or biennial, widely grown as a pasture plant in wet meadows and on stiff clayey soils, which are too poor to grow alfalfa or clover. It is sometimes recommended to be grown mixed with white clover for lawns as it remains green during the driest summers. The chief use to which Black Medick is put is to adulterate Red Clover seed. Red Clover seed imported into this country, sometimes consists of 50 % or more of Medicago lupulina. (Fodder & Forage Plants in Agrostology Bull. No 2 U.S. Dept of Agric.) No. 5 /1904 New Products. J.H.H. Oct 11th 1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060722
ScientificName: Melilotus indicus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) All.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Melilotus
specificEpithet: indicus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From J.P. Harvey & Co Ltd. Kidderminster. Corn & Seed Merchants. Letter 359, 1920;xiii.p.199. Named from plants grownat Pits.? (22.vi.21)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060727
modified: 2006-07-24 16:13:33.980000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew Gardens
ScientificName: Medicago sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Medicago
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Two sprigs - 1. Arabian Lucerne.  Stuart R Cope (see letters 186.187, April 1914) Specimen taken from plants growing in Herbaceous Dept, Kew Oct 15, 1914.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006073
modified: 2006-11-30 16:20:09.423000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Tanganyika
ScientificName: Aeschynomene pfundii
scientificNameAuthorship: Taub.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Aeschynomene
specificEpithet: pfundii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Tanganyika, Central Province, 7 miles west of Dodmoa, Nzing Swamp. Seasonal swamp with dominant plant a large sedge. About 8ft high. Upper part of stem greenish gradually thickening until base very thick and pithy. Also occurs by Lake Kitangiri, Sibiti where used for fishing floats.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060730
modified: 2006-11-13 16:30:08.457000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Isle of Wight, Watch House Point
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Steep banks of clay along the shore on both sides of the Point. Sept 13, 1846.  Small sample seed cult Herb.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060736
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia, Brisbane
ScientificName: Millettia megasperma
scientificNameAuthorship: (F.Muell.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Millettia
specificEpithet: megasperma
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Two entry book numbers - 121.1882, and 93a.1886. James Pink, The Badgers, Trafalgar Vale, Wellington Point


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060740
modified: 2006-01-24 10:56:58.393000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia, Queensland
ScientificName: Millettia megasperma
scientificNameAuthorship: (F.Muell.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Millettia
specificEpithet: megasperma
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Memo  from LAB 1.12.14.  re Sample (Letter 539.1914, ix p166) The peculiar external appearance of the sp is due to the nature of the cork.  The latter exfoliates in thin layers, somewhat like birch.  Owing to the presence of loosely attached cells forming strata alternating with tough layers of typical cork cells.  There does not appear to be anything abnormal in the structure of the cortex or wood.  Eumundi, CT White Aug 1914.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060748
modified: 2006-06-09 14:30:09.487000
locality: New Guinea
ScientificName: Mucuna kraetkei
scientificNameAuthorship: Warb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
specificEpithet: kraetkei
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter 397. 1925, xvi p147.  A handsome liane as yet little known to Bot Gard.  The seeds were obtained from New Guinea where the plant ascends tall trees some 50 or 60 ft high.  It flowers here in December.  The flowers appearing on the stem from to summit right down to the base.  The plant is usually found growing near water.  (Extract of letter from R Bryce, Director of Agric, Robaul, New Guinea, Aug 28th 1925.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060763
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Java, Buitenzorg
ScientificName: Mucuna pruriens var. utilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
specificEpithet: pruriens
infraspecificEpithet: utilis
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Craib Herb August 1910 JHH 23.ix.10 See Piper & Tracy Velvet beans and related plants, Bull No 179,1910 p.17 Bur  ? Ind US Dept Agric


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060764
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa, Natal
ScientificName: Mucuna pruriens var. utilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
specificEpithet: pruriens
infraspecificEpithet: utilis
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Entry book no on label 177a.1910 not 197A.1910 as on jar Sent for name by Inspector CE Fairlie of Natal in whose garden the beans grew unexpectedly attaining 24 feet in less than 3 months. See letter 430 1910 JHH 15.viii.10


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006077
recordNumber: 2048
recordedBy: Jefford TG, Juniper BE, Newbould J
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Tanzania
eventDate: 1958-09-17 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 17/09/1958
ScientificName: Aeschynomene elaphroxylon
scientificNameAuthorship: (Guill. & Perr.) Taub.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Aeschynomene
specificEpithet: elaphroxylon
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Large untidy shrub to 20 ft. Numerous adventitious roots at bases of boles. Bark +/- smooth grey with persistent thorns. Mpanda District, Mahali Mts. Silam Bula altitude 2500 ft.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060771
modified: 2007-09-17 15:36:20.533000
country: Reunion
countryCode: RE
locality: Reunion
ScientificName: Mucuna pruriens var. utilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
specificEpithet: pruriens
infraspecificEpithet: utilis
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mauritius or bengal bean See Bull 179 US Dept Agric  Bur Pl Industry 1910 p.18 JHH 4.viii.10 Verified in Herb


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060772
modified: 2006-01-17 17:40:49.793000
country: Montserrat
countryCode: MS
locality: Montserrat
ScientificName: Mucuna pruriens var. utilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
specificEpithet: pruriens
infraspecificEpithet: utilis
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Named in Herb. See Piper & Tracy. Velvet Bean & Related Plants. Bull 179, 1910 Bar. Pl. Industry N.T. Dept. Agric p.19. J.H.H. 24.ix.10.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060774
modified: 2013-04-12 15:30:30.757000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Mucuna pruriens var. utilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
specificEpithet: pruriens
infraspecificEpithet: utilis
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No material in Herb to make a satisfactory comparison. J.H.H. 30.iii.10 See Piper & Tracy Bull. 179 Bar. Pl. Ind. 1910 p.17.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060775
modified: 2003-12-31 09:52:44.550000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: United States America, Mississippi, Biloxi
ScientificName: Mucuna pruriens var. utilis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
specificEpithet: pruriens
infraspecificEpithet: utilis
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew. U.S. Dept Agric. 24 Jan 1911. S.P.I. No. 25254 11/23-1910 To Mr Arthur W Hill Kew Gardens.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060787
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: United States America, Mississippi, Biloxi
ScientificName: Mucuna
scientificNameAuthorship: Adans.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seed & Plant Introduction And Distribution S.P.I. No. 25956 Immature, date recd. 11/23-1910.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060792
modified: 2019-01-28 12:59:34.787000
eventRemarks: Date revised 2019
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Columbia
eventDate: 1882-12-23 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 23/12/1882
ScientificName: Mucuna urens
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Medik.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
specificEpithet: urens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No. 40 81 Kew List. Saman ain ? Pimana? 1200 m 23.12.1882. See 'Flora of Jamaica' for this problem J.M.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060793
modified: 2003-12-31 10:01:19.403000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: United States America, Mississippi, Biloxi
ScientificName: Mucuna
scientificNameAuthorship: Adans.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seed & Plant Introduction & Distribution S.P.I. No. 27978 Date recd. 11/23 - 1910. Jan 27 1911 Kew.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060798
modified: 2006-01-24 11:04:47.277000
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: British Guiana
ScientificName: Mucuna
scientificNameAuthorship: Adans.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Mucuna
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew. Not matched in Herbarium one seed belongs to different species. J.A.S 25.x.05. Different seed not seen 5/35 F.N.H. Cf M.urens DC Flora Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060812
modified: 2019-07-23 11:18:48.187000
ScientificName: Myroxylon balsamum
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Harms
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Myroxylon
specificEpithet: balsamum
occurrenceRemarks:
Spills filled with balsam for lighting candles in Roman Catholic churches, and holder. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060827
modified: 2007-08-31 13:05:09.563000
country: Ecuador
countryCode: EC
locality: Ecuador
ScientificName: Myroxylon peruiferum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Myroxylon
specificEpithet: peruiferum
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter 15, 1923, xv p 37. To Rosing Bros.  Acknowledge receipt of letter of 9th instant and in reply say the pods from Ecuador, submitted for identification, are those of peruiferum, a species closely allied to that yielding peru balsam, but not known to be of value for balsam.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060835
modified: 2016-12-13 11:18:53.687000
country: El Salvador
countryCode: SV
locality: Central America, Salvador
ScientificName: subfam. Papilionoideae
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: subfam. Papilionoideae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Rope bag used by the Indians of the State of Salvador for pressing the rags which have absorbed the Balsam of Peru from the trunks of balsam trees


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060842
recordNumber: 672
recordedBy: Kunstler H
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Malay Peninsula, Goping
eventDate: 1880-09-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/09/1880
ScientificName: Ormosia
scientificNameAuthorship: Jacks.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Ormosia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb Hort Bot Calcuttensis, Flora of Malay Peninsula/Malay Archipelago Found this fruit under a big tree in old jungle. Not matched in Herbarium 20.xi.05


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060843
modified: 2007-01-25 14:49:27.697000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Travancore
ScientificName: Ormosia travancorica
scientificNameAuthorship: Bedd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Ormosia
specificEpithet: travancorica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Yields a fine timber and valuable gum resin. Lofty tree. Travancore Hills 1000ft.  Comm.  Major Beddome, at Museum Note on Herb Specimen Copied July 19th 1906. JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060871
modified: 2006-08-08 16:23:06.700000
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass in April for planting out early and in open ground from the end of April to the middle of July


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060872
modified: 2006-08-08 15:59:58.527000
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass early in April and when ready plant out giving some slight protection and in the open ground from the end of April to the middle of July


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060874
modified: 2006-08-08 15:59:00.067000
country: Argentina
countryCode: AR
locality: Argentina
ScientificName: Phaseolus caracalla
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: caracalla
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Received from the Editor of the Gardener to whom they had been sent by RJ Knicker Bartolome, Mitre, L127 Buenos Aires JHH 19.iv.17 See Legum. cover for extract from letter.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060876
modified: 2006-08-08 16:01:45.997000
locality: Basutoland
ScientificName: Phaseolus coccineus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: coccineus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Beans from LF Wacher Agric Office Maseru Basutoland. Mr Sampson appears to be P.coccineus (P.multiflorus), scarlet runner bean Carter & Co (Natal Nursery Men) include under runner, they call bean seven year (Bomta) a large white seeded perennial also better grown annually called sugar bean in the Transvaal and a first class table bean when dry. 6 seeds to Mr Robinson to grow 16.vi.32 JHH See copy of report Imp Inst 6.vii.32  Phaseolus cover


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060880
modified: 2007-01-17 12:58:34.297000
ScientificName: Phaseolus lunatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: lunatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See Letter 84, 1915; x.p8. Sample of 'Haricot' beans found to contain prussic acid. To Sir D Prain Director Kew. Opuscular source:  (Letter 84, 1915; x.p8) Dear Mr MacFadden, I have received your letter of the 10th instant enclosing a further sample of beans. These appear to be Phaseolus lunatus also and seem to be the small white form sometimes sold as the 'small haricot beans' or Kew Haricot. Your truly, signed the Director.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060886
modified: 2003-07-29 12:50:52.867000
ScientificName: Phaseolus lunatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: lunatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Obtained from J Hendrick Aberdeen. Apparently same variety as those contained in box (3)?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060888
modified: 2007-01-17 13:00:42.720000
ScientificName: Phaseolus lunatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: lunatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample from A & R Tod Ltd. Flour Miller Leith. Opuscular source:  June 25th 1928, Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated Junr 20th, (No. 65457). Accompanied by a copy of the letter rec'd. from Messrs A & R Tod Ltd together with a sample of beans for report. An examination of the beans points to their being Phaseolus lunatus L., not Phaseolus vulgaris L., the sample forwared being identical with samples of the former among our collections known comonly as 'Rangoon', 'Burma' or 'Java' beans. Beans of this sp. (P. lunatus) in a raw state usually contain prussic acid, the quantity varying with the variety and age of the seed. This prussic acid is dissipated when the beans are boiled but is present in meal when the beans have been ground in a raw state as feeding stuff for livestock. All forms of P lunatus are no doubt debarred as food by the terms of the fertilizers and feeding stuffs act. Further information P lunatus will be found in;- 'Plants poisonous to Livestock' by HC Long Cambridge University Press 'The selection of Burma Beans' (Phaseolus lunatus) For Low Prussic Acid Content' Memoirs of Dept of Agric In India, Vol 1 X no.1 Nov. 1925 pp1-37. 'Prussic Acid In Burma Beans' Agric Research Institute, Pusa, Bull 79.I amsir your obedient servant, The Director.


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modified: 2007-01-17 15:14:13.723000
country: Ethiopia
countryCode: ET
locality: Ethiopia, Abyssinia
ScientificName: Phaseolus lunatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: lunatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sent for identification by Dr L.P. de Bussy, Director Afdeeling Handelsmuseum van de kolinklijke vereeniging koloniaal Institute Amsterdam. 5.10.35 (Letter book 395) Phaseolus lunatus L. var 'Mauritius Bean' see coloured illustration in 'variation in the Lima bean as illustrated by its synonomy.' G P van Eseltine ? N.York State  Agrid Exp. Stat. Tech. Bull. 182.1931.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
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modified: 2003-07-29 12:57:25.327000
ScientificName: Phaseolus lunatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: lunatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Obtained from J Hendrick Aberdeen. Apparently same variety as those contained in boxes 2 6 & 4 ?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
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modified: 2007-01-16 15:13:01.173000
ScientificName: Phaseolus lunatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: lunatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Obtained from J Hendrick Aberdeen, who got them in 1905. Apparently same variety as those contained in box 1. ?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
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modified: 2003-07-29 13:04:51.767000
ScientificName: Phaseolus lunatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: lunatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Obtained from Tatlock & Thomson Glasgow on 6 June 1907. Envelope (a) apparently same variety as contained in boxes 2,6 & 4 ?


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060930
modified: 2003-07-29 14:40:54.950000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew Gardens
ScientificName: Phaseolus lunatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: lunatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Holland 283.13 Museum.  From Sierra Leone,  Imperial Institute No 48619.  7.2.14 Trop Prop Pits, Kew Gardens


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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060956
modified: 2005-07-04 16:17:37.687000
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Small haricot beans obtained from Cooper, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow on June 6th 67.  It is said that white Rangoon beans have been sold by this ?? as small haricot beans.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
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modified: 2008-02-04 15:22:06.247000
country: Netherlands
countryCode: NL
locality: Netherlands
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purchased Soho Provision Store 18.12.1951. Said to be imported from Holland at present but considered inferior to Italian and Chilean supplies. Used like haricots for cooking - minestrone, salads etc. 1952 Harrison


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country: Germany
countryCode: DE
locality: Germany
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See smaller bottle of field beans (Vicia faba) etc selected from this sample JHH 19.xi.27 Beans of German origin from Agric Dept Armstrong College Newcastle 19.xi.27. Any poisonous to cattle 1. White P.vulgaris var. - 2 peas (probably missed in the selection for No 7 - Pisium selerum 2.White P.vulgaris var. same as 13. Brown mottled P.vulgaris var. 4. Brown mottled P.vulgaris var. 5.Dark red & white P.vulgaris var. (spotted) 6. Mixed red brown P.vulgaris var. & 1 horsebean (vicia faba L. var squina) 7. Peas (5) Pisum satarum Bean (1) P.vulgaris - sulphur yellow, bean (1) P.vulgaris - white, bean P.vulgaris yellowish Corn (3) Zea mays, lentils (9) Lens esculenta, Cornflower seed (2) Hel.annuus, Barley (5) Hordeum vulgare, Hemp (1) Cannabis sativa, Grass (4) Wheat (small) a few grass seeds and one other unidentified. See Kew Letter ?? above names Feb 26 1929 See copies in Phaseolus lunatus cover.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000060976
modified: 2003-07-29 14:41:42.007000
country: Madagascar
countryCode: MG
locality: Madagascar
identifiedBy: Lewis GP Herb Kew
ScientificName: Phaseolus lunatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: lunatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  As belonging to the Inamoenus group. Cultivar name from Westphal: Pulses of Ethiopia.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  (See letter 234,1918;xii.p.105) Sent for name 14 seeds received ,9 to Director for gardens to grow; 5 herein J.H.H. 25.vi.18. I can not determine the kind. Pods not developed. Plant a climber J.H.H. 12.8.18. cf Garden specimen.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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modified: 2007-07-23 16:05:44.410000
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Department of Agriculture and Technical Institute For Ireland. Seeds and Plant Diseases Division. (Letter 265, 1918; xii. p.114).


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modified: 2013-04-15 16:49:57.697000
locality: Korea
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Korean Kotenashi Beans M 25/19.3.30 Sent to Mr Squibbs while on leave in England by the General Manager W.H. Symington & Co Ltd. J.H.H. 20.iii.30.


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modified: 2005-07-04 16:05:27.940000
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Garden no. 1/1917. Informed by telephone Mr Wimm 2.1.17. J.H.H. No.1 Dutch Beans (Brown Haricots?) Pods somewhat broader than No.2. It is believed that all the beans sown were brown, like these. By far the larger part of the crop is of this type. Board of Agric. I5053/1916 (Letter 540,1916 xi.p.94).


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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modified: 2012-12-20 13:11:31.783000
locality: Korea
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  M 25, 19.2.30.  Mr Squibbs - sent to him while on leave in England. General Manager, Symingtons & Co Ltd.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061002
modified: 2006-08-23 17:34:58.943000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From a general collection of Indian Seeds collected by Col FS Kempt, (See letter 97, 1917, xi p124)


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061003
modified: 2010-06-29 10:54:21.767000
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter 38, 1918, xii p 46,  Jan 25th 1918. Acknowledge receipt of letter from Messrs Gaskain, and reply that the beans appear to be a var of haricot bean. There is no species  in the Kew collection of the same appearance.  A few to Pits through Directors Office 25.1.18. JHH.


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modified: 2006-08-24 09:28:57.643000
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Beans which appear to have grown from seeds of no 1. None of these were noticed when the seed was sown.  The pods are longer and narrower than no.1.


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modified: 2006-10-24 11:33:11.737000
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See letter 31, Jan 1919, xii p 189 under Board of Agriculture Food Prod Dept, 61577/S. Copy of report in Board of Agriculture cover on feeding a heifer with beans supplied by Messrs Clement Dalby & Co Ltd as over...A heifer received 2 lbs daily for 14 days and then 3 lb daily for 33 days without any injurious results.  It would therefore appear that the beans of this sample are not poisonous given as a full ration and for a prolonged period. 1/16500/1918


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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modified: 2008-02-06 11:27:16.190000
country: Germany
countryCode: DE
locality: Germany
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  The amount of oil contained by these seeds has been found to be 1per cent, though the material available was too small to allow of the determination of this figure with great accuracy,  See Oil Pl Cover and letter 20, 1915, ix p 180 Dr Durham to Mr Hill. Label source:  Yellow soya bean  FC Heinemann.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See letter 382, 1915, x p 102.  Used as food in Holland. contains tube of beans grown at Kew in Summer on 1916.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061014
modified: 2007-01-25 17:18:59.587000
locality: Stalham, Brunstead Rectory
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pods of a climbing bean (yellow splashed with red) - letter 423, 1920, xiv p15.  Near Extra Early Hort Pole.  See American Vars of Garden Beans by UM Tracy US Dept of Agric, Bull No 109, 1907, Bur Pl Ind. p117, pl xv f1


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061020
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 353, 1924, xvi, p38, 25, ix, 24. In Irish 12th Rep. Missouri Bot Gard, 1901, p109,  New Zealand Runner Kidney Bean (Haricot de Prage Marbre?)


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061021
modified: 2006-01-17 17:19:53.513000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew Gardens
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 540 1916, xi p 94, Board of Agric I 5053.1916. samples of beans from Mr Long no 2 named Grey Zebra.  See also letter 325 1917, xi p 192.  Some of original sample in museums 62/1916.  Garden no for specimens grown 1.1917.


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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061029
modified: 2006-08-21 15:36:56.557000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew Gardens
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 540. 1960.  xi p 94. Bd of Agric I 5053/1916. Sample of beans from Mr Long?  See also letter 325 1917, xi p 192.  62/1916


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061031
modified: 2009-04-20 11:51:38.120000
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Early six weeks dwarf beans.  Sow under glass early in April for planting out early, and in the open ground during May and June.


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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061032
modified: 2006-09-18 16:35:59.940000
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass early in April for planting out early, and in the open ground from the end of April to the middle of July. The rows should be 2 feet apart, and the plants 1 foot apart in the rows.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061035
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass early in April for planting out early and in the open ground from the end of April to the middle of July. The rows should be 2 feet apart and the plants 1 foot apart in the rows


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061037
modified: 2006-09-22 11:40:56.850000
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The most productive dwarf bean in cultivation and the best variety for show purposes. Sow under glass early in April for planting out in early, and in the open ground from the end of April to the middle of July. The rows should be 2 and ahalf feet apart and the plants 1 and a half feet apart in the rows


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061038
modified: 2006-09-18 16:35:08.933000
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass in April; open ground in May and June. This is of a very dwarf habit, growing only from 12 to 18 inches high, the pods being from 2 to 3 inches in length, very closely set, while beans are about as large as small lupins.It is very early and may be cooked green as French beans; or the seed, when ripe forms a delicate dish dressed as haricot beans.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061040
modified: 2006-09-04 17:41:31.920000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Tuticorin
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sample of beans sent with Mr Amiss letter of 11 Oct labelled R.M.A.S. Red beans ex 'Clan Forbes' from Tuticorin. Bd of Agric I 17082/1917 (letter 403, 1917: xii p.9) Result of analysis by Dr Bernard Dyer 2.8.17 - Moisture 10.80%, Oil 1.61%, Albuminoids 20.38%, Digestible carbohydrate 57.78%, Fibre 4.60% and mineral matter (ash) 4.83%. 'These beans contain a small but appreciable quanity of cyanogetic glucoside capable of yielding on digestion 0.012% of hydrocyanic (prussic acid) or 0.84 grains per pound. This is much less than is found in some species of eastern beans which are known for their poisonous properties and it is quite possible that if the beans were boiled the enzyme which sets free the prussic acid  might be destroyed and the beans rendered innocuous, nevertheless some uneasiness attaches to the idea of the seed for human food of beans capable of yielding even this quanity of prussic acid. Most beans of well recognised wholesomeness are either free from the properties of generating prussic acid or yielding only faint traces compared with which the quanity capable of being formed in the digestion of these beans is relatively large (signed) B Dyer Copy JHH 29.x.17


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ScientificName: Phaseolus
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kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass early in April for planting out early, and in the open ground from the end of April to the middle of July. The rows should be 5 feet apart and the plants 1 foot apart in rows.


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modified: 2006-09-04 17:52:04.850000
ScientificName: Phaseolus
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kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass in April and in the open ground during May and June. The rows should be 2 1/2 feet apart and the plants should be thinned to about 1 1/2 feet apart in the rows.


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modified: 2006-09-04 17:34:34.493000
ScientificName: Phaseolus
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genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass early in April for planting out early and in open ground from the end of April to the middle of July. The rows should be 2 ft apart and the plants 1ft apart in the rows.


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modified: 2006-09-04 17:46:59.543000
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass in April for planting out early and in the ground from the end of April to the middle of July. The rows should be fully 5ft apart and the plants 1ft apart in the rows


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061048
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
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family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This is suitable variety for forcing. Sow under glass early in April for planting out early and in the open ground from the end of April to the middle of July. The rows should be 2 ft apart and the plants 1ft apart in the rows


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061049
modified: 2006-09-04 17:49:22.897000
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A distinct variety, exceedingly prolific with long straight narrow pods of excellent quality. The leaves which resemble those of a nettle are of medium size and very dark coloured. Sow from the end of April to the middle of July. The rows should be 2 ft apart and the plants thinned  to 1 ft apart.


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modified: 2006-09-25 14:51:33.050000
ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass in April for planting out early and in the open ground during May and June. The rows should be 2 1/2 feet apart and the plants should be thinned to 1 1/2 feet apart in the rows


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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ScientificName: Phaseolus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass early in April for planting out early and in the open ground from the end of April to the middle of July. The rows should be 2 feet apart and the plants 1 foot apart in rows.


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ScientificName: Phaseolus
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kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow under glass early in April for planting out early and in the open ground from the end of April to the middle of July


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ScientificName: Phaseolus
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family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A distinct variety of the 'Painted Lady' type but not so rampant in growth. It is exceedingly prolific and produces very large pods of much better quality than the ordinary runner beans and not so much affected by the drought. Runner beansshould be fully 5 feet from row to row and 12 inches apart in rows


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061059
modified: 2006-09-25 16:32:12.533000
ScientificName: Phaseolus multiflorus
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: multiflorus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The scarlet runner bean is a native of South America. It is naturally a perennial but is generally cultivated as an annual in Great Britain, its rapid growth and attractive red flowers making it a useful climber for covering unslightly fences, as well as a valuable source of food.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061061
modified: 2006-08-23 09:49:15.737000
ScientificName: Vicia faba
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vicia
specificEpithet: faba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The broad bean has been cultivated since prehistoric times and probably originated in Algeria or South West Asia. It is an annual widely grown in England where its growth is not usually restricted by hot dry summers. The plant is erect andgrows to a height of 2 to 4 feet.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061064
modified: 2019-07-09 10:34:27.533000
ScientificName: Phaseolus vulgaris
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Varieties - 'Sunrise' ; 'Merton Haricot' ; 'Melting Dwarf Wax' ; 'Brown Dutch' ; 'Climbing Perfection' ; 'Climbing Purple Podded' ; 'Lightning' ; 'July Climbing' ; '50 Days' ; 'Pershore'. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061070
modified: 2006-01-17 17:21:52.777000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew Gardens
eventDate: 1923-12-05 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 05/12/1923
ScientificName: Phaseolus coccineus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Phaseolus
specificEpithet: coccineus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Basutoland (Grown at Kew) A few to Mr Robinson to grow 16. vi.32. Specimen plants in flower, Lab grounds collected 2 Sept, 1933 JHH.  Pods collected Dec 1933.  Dried specimens flower & mature to Mr Robinson to keep in his herbarium.  Pods and seed in Museum.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061075
modified: 2006-09-05 10:16:04.587000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: US America
ScientificName: Piscidia erythrina
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Piscidia
specificEpithet: erythrina
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter from Imp Inst, to Mr Holland, 2.4.17.  Dear Holland,  Many thanks indeed for the trouble you have taken with the bark.  On comparing your sample with our bark from the shipment, it is undoubtedly the same.  Again thanking you for your kindness.  Believe me Yours faithfully. Label source:  See letter book xi, p 19 (Dr Furlong) and letter 132, 1917, xi p 133. Sample of bark ex Kronprincessin Cecilie ship from America.  Re examined. Appears to be the bark of P erythrina L.  Lab 30.3.17 No tannin, no saponin, no appreciable alkaloid.  Bitter taste.  Good deal pectous matter. FR Furlong 2/8/16


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061086
modified: 2006-08-24 09:53:14.920000
ScientificName: Pisum arvense
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pisum
specificEpithet: arvense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A small proportion of seed all leguminous, compared in Herbaceous collection - not identified - (One is Lupinus angustifolius) 3 other tubes  of seed; 1. & 2. Selected from sample sent. 3. Br Dr Ossowski (Polish) selected as being known tohimas Peluschken - offered to write to Warsaw for sample  - Mr Boodle 8.xi.29. See letter in Pisum or Peas cover - Leguminosae Nov 9.1929


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061087
modified: 2010-02-23 14:28:27.410000
country: Poland
countryCode: PL
locality: Poland
ScientificName: Pisum arvense
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pisum
specificEpithet: arvense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mueller - Griebel, Mikroskojue der Nahrungs - und Genussmittel aus dem Pflanzenreiche. 1928. Berlin.  J Springer s.529. (About Peluzka page 126.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061091
modified: 2006-10-23 15:15:42.330000
ScientificName: Pisum sativum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pisum
specificEpithet: sativum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sow in Feb and march for gathering in June and July, and during April, May and June for later crops. Stake as soon as possible as the stakes afford some degree of shelter. Deep trenching with plenty of manure is of the greatest importance in cultivating peas


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061097
modified: 2006-01-17 17:28:58.493000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Leeds
ScientificName: Pisum sativum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pisum
specificEpithet: sativum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Purple podded pea sent for name by Mr P Clapham Calverley Leeds 17.8.21 (Letter 353, 1921 : xiv p.141) = Pisum sativum var, there is a similar specimen in Herbarium received as 'grown at Uxbridge (1912) seed recd. from South Africa much used in siege of Ladysmith JHH 23.viii.1921 Letter 353,1921 : xiv p.141 - 24th August 1921, Mr Clapham, acknowledge the receipt of his letter of the 17th instant and in reply to say that the 'purple podded pea' submitted for identification, is a variety of Pisum sativum the 'Garden Pea'. There appears to be no information available as to the origin of this variety; but a similar specimen was received at Kew in 1912, grown at Uxbridge, and the seed was stated to have been received from South Africa, 'much used in siege of Ladysmith'.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061098
modified: 2006-10-23 15:16:35.163000
country: Cuba
countryCode: CU
locality: Cuba
ScientificName: Pisum sativum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pisum
specificEpithet: sativum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Economic Plants of the World CF Baker No 17 Cuba. Raised from seed sent from the Calcutta Garden. This form produces good crops in both wet an in a dry season here on the red soil and is evidently especially suited to sub tropical conditions.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061142
modified: 2006-08-18 16:25:01.023000
ScientificName: Pisum sativum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pisum
specificEpithet: sativum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Models 'Best of All' and 'Early Giant' The common garden pea is a handy annual native of Southern Europe, where it has been cultivated since before the beginning of the Christian era. Garden Pea varieties contain more sugar than do field peas, and some have pods tender and succulent enough to be eaten whole (sugar peas).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061143
modified: 2006-01-17 17:18:05.353000
country: Guatemala
countryCode: GT
locality: Guatemala
ScientificName: Platypodium elegans
scientificNameAuthorship: Vogel
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Platypodium
specificEpithet: elegans
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fruit and bark (not with this specimen) of a large tree growing in the woods along the P.R.R between Gorgena and Matachin, collected March 12th 1861. Early in this month the leaves fall, and soon after the fruit ripens. The first trees Isaw were naked of leaves and have only only fruit. The bark is very rough, the trunks of the trees being very uneven with deep crevices, and projecting angles, sometimes, as if twisted. These trunks are from one to two feet in diameter, of good hard wood, excellent for fuel, of a yellowish colour. They are with their spreading tops 60 to 70 feet in height. I have specimens of the leaves as good as I can get at this season of the year.  I shall send some of them and that there may be no mistake or confusion in getting together the fruit of one tree and the leaves of another, I shall place a little of the fruit in with them. The native name of the tree is 'Frijolillo' I could not fail to observe the great resemblance this fruit bears to that of the Balsam tree of San Salvador, but the leaves are very different and the juice of the tree dries up to a kind of gum like kino and is not balsamic. May this tree not be a Pterocarpus and one of those mistaken for the balsam of Zulu (?) Sutton Hayes.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006115
modified: 2006-05-22 16:05:45.240000
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad
ScientificName: Andira jamaicensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Urb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Andira
specificEpithet: jamaicensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A tree growing 90 ft in height, distributed throughout the island. Wood hard and durable approx. 50 lbs. per cubic foot, reddish yellow to brown with dark streaks. Takes a good polish.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061160
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil
ScientificName: Platypodium grandiflorum
scientificNameAuthorship: (Benth.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Platypodium
specificEpithet: grandiflorum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bangara v. Baadata Incolig, qui e ligno levi ?? construent. E Canta Gallo Communic Th Peckolt 1867 Pro herb Kew


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061185
modified: 2006-01-17 17:20:35.627000
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Malaya, Johore, Batu Pahat
ScientificName: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Psophocarpus
specificEpithet: tetragonolobus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Climbing bean, flowers pale blue, young pods eaten.  Cultivated a good deal by the Malays.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061199
modified: 2005-06-22 12:54:16.023000
recordedBy: Kirk Dr
eventDate: 1859-08-15 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 15/08/1859
ScientificName: Pterocarpus erinaceus
scientificNameAuthorship: Poir.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
specificEpithet: erinaceus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Resin obtained from incisions made in the bark of the stem.  Fig. 148.  Mronde, Chupanga


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000612
country: Madagascar
countryCode: MG
locality: Madagascar, Zanzibar
ScientificName: Cinnamosma fragrans
scientificNameAuthorship: Baill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Canellaceae
genus: Cinnamosma
specificEpithet: fragrans
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Wood formerly exported from Madagascar & Zanzibar to India, used for cremating the bodies of Hindus. This is almost certainly Cinnamosma fragrans Baill. It agrees closely with Yale 7367. C R Metcaffe 15/02/1932.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061202
modified: 2006-11-29 15:43:50.837000
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: British Guiana
ScientificName: Pterocarpus guianensis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Benth.) Kuntze
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
specificEpithet: guianensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  1882. The bark & seeds are reputed to have medicinal properties, nearly all the Indians use the latter as a cure for ringworm. Tree grows to a height of 70 or 80 feet. Letter from GS Jennman to Mr Dyer dated Jan 18 1883.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061219
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: South Nigeria, Fiditi
ScientificName: Pterocarpus osun
scientificNameAuthorship: Craib
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
specificEpithet: osun
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Dried heartwood of Osun pupa as imported to Fiditi for making Camwood. This kind is called 'Red Camwood'. The Imperial Institute, South Kensington.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061221
modified: 2007-10-02 14:49:37.567000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria
identifiedBy: Boodle
ScientificName: Pterocarpus osun
scientificNameAuthorship: Craib
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
specificEpithet: osun
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  See letter 27, 1915 ix.p.182 Dated Jan 27th 1915, The Manager, Tin Areas of Nigeria Ltd. Acknowledge the receipt of his letter of the 19th inst and in reply to say that the samples of dye wood submitted for identification appear to be 'Red Camwood' used as a dye in Nigeria but unsaleable as such in this coutry. Camwood proper which does sometimes find a sale in this country as a dye wood is the produce of Baphia nitida. Full particulars of these two trees are given in the Kew Bull., additional series IX part 2, 1911, pp. 241 & 246. (Obtainable as per enclosed circular). The specimens are returned herewith as required. (Small tube of wood & powder retained).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061224
locality: Orinoco
ScientificName: Pterocarpus rohrii
scientificNameAuthorship: Vahl
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
specificEpithet: rohrii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Orinoco and Guiana. St Anna?. The tree is large or rather dividing or branching off into 3 trees just above the ground! It bled in a stream when I struck into the bark with a cutlass.  I was told by the natives it bled most freely at full moon.  What time or age of the moon on 31 July 1815?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061230
modified: 2011-01-31 11:46:56.777000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Ootacamund
ScientificName: Pterocarpus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Juice of a tree, which can be got in large quantities at little cost.  Could be used in the arts?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061231
modified: 2006-11-30 15:47:35.423000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria
ScientificName: Pterocarpus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter 55,1915, x p. 1 From the Manager, Tin Areas of Nigeria Ltd, acknowledge the receipt of his letter of the 17th inst and in reply to say that the specimen of so called Native Camwood, submitted for identification is that of a specimen of Pterocarpus, but is certainly not that of Camwood proper.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061235
modified: 2006-11-30 15:51:31.940000
country: Sierra Leone
countryCode: SL
locality: Sierra Leone
ScientificName: Pterocarpus erinaceus
scientificNameAuthorship: Poir.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
specificEpithet: erinaceus
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Note from Dawe - Example of woody rootstock developed by savannah trees growing in fire swept areas.  Top 6 inches stem remainder root.  Leter ChF? 95/711/1923, 16th April 1923.  From Commissioner of Lands and Forests


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061236
modified: 2011-10-07 18:01:18.553000
country: BU
countryCode: BU
locality: Burma
ScientificName: Alstonia scholaris
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) R.Br.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Apocynaceae
genus: Alstonia
specificEpithet: scholaris
occurrenceRemarks:
First identified tentatively as P. santalinus, but far too light. Could be another species. Identification changed to Pterocarpus sp. MN 27/05/2007. Determined by wood anatomy as Alstonia scholaris by Ian Maclachlan, 10 March 2010.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061238
modified: 2006-11-29 16:26:24.780000
country: BU
countryCode: BU
locality: Burma
ScientificName: Pterocarpus santalinus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
specificEpithet: santalinus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sold for medicinal purposes in bazaars at Toungoo, ground to a powder and applied to inflammatory swellings.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061246
modified: 2007-06-29 16:25:43.393000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Southern Nigeria, Banoara
ScientificName: Pterocarpus erinaceus
scientificNameAuthorship: Poir.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
specificEpithet: erinaceus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Obtained at Bansara. It is manufactured by chipping off the bark of the growing tree, the material is then roughly chopped and powdered mixed with moist cow dung and moulded into round or square tins, these are placed in the ashes of the dying fire at night and extracted early the next morning.  the two small cavities are made when moulding and are intended to facilitate the using.  The uses - to powder and paint bodies of members of the Munshi and adjacent tribes on certain fete days.  The cutting of the tree is now forbidden without a license under the Forestry Ordinance (1916).  The sample shown is sold for 3d to 6d in the markets of the Ogojo Province Southern Nigeria. Opuscular source:  Letter from Watten, 42, Thorny Hedge Road, Gunnersbury 27.10.1917,  Dear Mr Hillier, I am sending the note on the camwood as promised.  I have received notice to say that I am not to sail until Now 28 which gives me another month to enjoy the worries of food hunting.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006125
modified: 2006-05-19 13:16:54.230000
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Cordova
ScientificName: Ateleia
scientificNameAuthorship: (DC.) D.Dietr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Ateleia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  An evergreen tree 40-50 ft high.  Wood used for axe handles and all kinds of waggon work.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061253
modified: 2006-07-20 17:08:07.417000
country: Malawi
countryCode: MW
locality: Nyasaland
ScientificName: Pterocarpus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Piece of red wood as brought from Platran by the duramba (?) and sold to the Ankoudi people South Nyassa. It is reduced to powder by rubbing with both hands against a stone, wet, mixed with castor oil and used as a dressing for hair and scalp.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061254
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Central Provinces
ScientificName: Pterocarpus marsupium
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pterocarpus
specificEpithet: marsupium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Dy Conservator of Forests Chanda District Central Provinces Reg No 10585 File No 61  Vernacular name unreadable


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061266
locality: Lushan Hills
ScientificName: Pueraria lobata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Willd.) Ohwi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pueraria
specificEpithet: lobata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Stem (with part of the root attached) of the Ko Plant gathered on the Lushan Hills Kiang si- China Sept 1885


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061276
modified: 2008-06-13 12:54:15.757000
country: Thailand
countryCode: TH
locality: Thailand, Chiengmai, DoiSuthep
eventDate: 1956-11-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/11/1956
ScientificName: Pueraria mirifica
scientificNameAuthorship: Airy Shaw & Suvat.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pueraria
specificEpithet: mirifica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  One of the tuberous roots of a plant collected from Doi Suthep Nov 1956. The main plant grew in 1957 at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061285
modified: 2006-11-28 17:04:38.140000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Pueraria lobata
scientificNameAuthorship: (Willd.) Ohwi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pueraria
specificEpithet: lobata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No. 1 from Kinkiang, used by the Chinese for summer gowns. Consul Jamieson. No. 2 from Niagpo. Consul Cooper. 8 cents per foot. Costs 22 cents a yard. Specimen of Ko cloth of which the Chinese make summer under waist coats. It does not cling however soaked with perspiration. May. 6.85.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061287
modified: 2005-04-29 14:09:35.027000
recordedBy: MacGregor Sir WM
locality: New Guinea
eventDate: 1889-03-10 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 10/03/1889
ScientificName: Pueraria phaseoloides
scientificNameAuthorship: (Roxb.) Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Pueraria
specificEpithet: phaseoloides
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Comm Sir F.V Mueller 9/1889. Port Morseby. Root eaten boiled. Not in flower at present. Fibre seems to be excellent, long shrubby creeper.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061309
modified: 2006-05-18 11:26:48.720000
country: Kenya
countryCode: KE
locality: Kenya, Nairobi
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This was identified as Sesbania aculeata by Miss Napier, see Kew Bulletin 1932, 151-154


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061310
modified: 2006-05-22 16:19:14.757000
country: Kenya
countryCode: KE
locality: Kenya, Nairobi
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter M903, 1930, Dr Metcalfes report on specimens, and letter to Major Chipps July 25/30. 1. Fungus like substance on the roots of sesbania The material sent agrees very closely in structure the floating tissue described by Scott andWater (Annals of Botany Vol I) on the parts of the stem and roots of Sesbania aculeata.  The tissue by a thellogen? a short distance beneath the ??  However it differs from true cork in that the cells do not lose their living contents and the cell walls do not become suberized. See Scheruck on Prongsturns Jahrbichur?? vol xx p524.  See Kew Bulleting 1931, pp 151-154. Aerenchyma of Sesbania, report to Miss Napier Sept 1930. Label source:  Sesbania, not aculeata from pond in Thompsons estate.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061315
modified: 2007-09-25 11:34:56.870000
country: Chile
countryCode: CL
locality: Easter Island
ScientificName: Sophora toromiro
scientificNameAuthorship: (Phil.) Skottsb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Sophora
specificEpithet: toromiro
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Of the wood of this tree all wooden images and implements were made; now almost extinct, existing specimens only bushes growing amongst the rocks of interior slopes of crater of Rana knau,  Coll Mr Scoresby Routledge, Ewers, Bursledon, Hants, 29.8.16


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061319
modified: 2006-05-22 16:15:41.010000
locality: San Antonio
ScientificName: Sophora secundiflora
scientificNameAuthorship: (Ortega) Lag. ex DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Sophora
specificEpithet: secundiflora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Poisonous, Indians in the neighbourhood of San Antonio use the seeds as an intoxicant, half a bean? producing exhilaration followed by 2 or 3 days of sleep, a whole bean will kill a man.  Seed also used by boys as marbles.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061327
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: North Nigeria, Ambisi
ScientificName: Sphenostylis stenocarpa
scientificNameAuthorship: (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Harms
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Sphenostylis
specificEpithet: stenocarpa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No 626, Dr Dalziel 1912, Tuber rooted bean. Much cultivated by the Munchi 'Ahoma' Fruit sent and beans in a small bottle.  Hausa Girigiri.  MSS List of Plants collected in Abinsi and neighbourhood, Benere, N Nigeria. JHH 7.7.13 = Vigna ornata


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061331
ScientificName: Spartium junceum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Spartium
specificEpithet: junceum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bleached, softened fibres - carded Thread made with corded bleached fibres Thread made with carded unbleached fibres


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061334
country: Italy
countryCode: IT
locality: Italy
ScientificName: Spartium junceum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Spartium
specificEpithet: junceum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mittente Ing Carlo Moriondi V : Pergolesi 19 Milano M633-29 ack 46.1929 recd Aug 17th 1929 Row softened fibres, not carded (not combed ?) not bleached Bleached softened fibre  - not carded Row softened fibres, unbleached carded


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061336
modified: 2016-12-13 11:21:34.693000
country: Malawi
countryCode: MW
locality: Nyasaland
ScientificName: Sphenostylis marginata subsp. erecta
scientificNameAuthorship: (Baker f.) Verdc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Sphenostylis
specificEpithet: marginata
infraspecificEpithet: erecta
taxonRank: Subspecies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Hillier, Please see accompanying letter for description of samples of gum and native basket herewith, - from KJ Cameron, Ntondwe, Nyasaland. The plant which produces the gum


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061341
modified: 2007-06-12 10:44:58.900000
country: Malawi
countryCode: MW
locality: Nyasaland
ScientificName: Sphenostylis marginata subsp. erecta
scientificNameAuthorship: (Baker f.) Verdc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Sphenostylis
specificEpithet: marginata
infraspecificEpithet: erecta
taxonRank: Subspecies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  E. 1/190 Pure Gum kneaded A. 1/190 - Residue of gum after it is strained through a cloth composed of I should say any fibre, pith and a little gum, kneaded into balls and a slightly pressed into a mould.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061342
locality: Namaqualand
ScientificName: Sutherlandia frutescens
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) W.T.Aiton
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Sutherlandia
specificEpithet: frutescens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 231,1924 : XVI p.15 Herbarium for verification Recd at Museum again 16.vii.24 JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061344
modified: 2007-05-22 15:38:37.217000
country: Madagascar
countryCode: MG
locality: Madagascar
ScientificName: Swartzia madagascariensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Desv.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Swartzia
specificEpithet: madagascariensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 622.1913 Fruits of Swartzia madgascariensis sent by Messrs Bickersteth, Baker & Co, 17 Water St, Liverpool for name. Named by comparison with Herbarium specimen 15.xii.13 came as an African product See letter 622.1913


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061348
modified: 2006-05-19 12:29:23.543000
ScientificName: Swartzia
scientificNameAuthorship: Schreb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Swartzia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  According to Dr Stapf 'the samples are identical with the spurious Maranham Jaborandi described by Holmes in Pharm Journ 1896 p.2. Holmes referred the plant provisionally to Swartzia and named it S.decipens. It resembles rather S.mollis Bth a species the position of which in Swartzia is however very doubtful. 25.3.1901


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061350
modified: 2006-05-22 15:18:37.690000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Mattos, Jaguara
ScientificName: Swartzia acutifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Vogel
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Swartzia
specificEpithet: acutifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Lady Harris, 98 Gloucester Terrace, Kensington 'Grande Bode' fruit of,  from Jaguara Mattos Brazil. Left at Museum by Lady Harris - named in Herb Swartzia sp near acutifolia - 3 seeds to Mr Taylor rest in fruit to Mr Sprague No 2 'Grande Bode' : This is a most extraordinary tree in as much as the pods are attached by short stems to the bark of the trunk. Extract from letter G. Chalmers, Fazenda de Jaguara (Brazil) dated 19th Oct 1925 to Lady Harris, 98 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, London. Specimen of wood in Museum, presented by Lady Harris 9th Jan 1926 JHH 22.i.26


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061351
modified: 2006-01-17 16:40:36.817000
locality: San Fernando
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The seeds are expelled from the pod which afterwards contracts, leaving the seeds still attached by the funiculus Opuscular source:  Prof Dyer then read the following note from Dr Kirkman Finlay of San Fernando to Dr Hooker on the Dehiscence of the Pod in a Species of Swartzia. 'I send you the pod of S.grandiflora, the dehiscence of which presents a singular phenomenon, which  I have observed in no other Leguminosa and that only recently. In a later botanical excursion I met with a fine bunch of the pods in maturity. I secured them. On my return, on opening this vasculum, I found several of the pods lined with a row of seeds. This surprised me, for the pods had not changed at all in outward appearance. On pressing them however I felt they were empty. I took the remaining pods that had remained full, and hung them up to dry. The next morning I found the pods exactly the same in outward shape as when I hung them up, only every one bore on one side a certain number of seeds hanging from the respective funiclus. These seeds were very glossy, covered with a coat of unctuous muscilage to facilate no doubt their exit from the pod. The latter as I said was quite closed and the coaptation of the sides through which the seeds had slipped was quite perfect while the moniliform appearance was wholly preserved.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061359
modified: 2006-05-22 15:15:57.773000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Natal
ScientificName: Tephrosia macropoda
scientificNameAuthorship: (E.Mey.) Harv.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Tephrosia
specificEpithet: macropoda
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  3 ozs approx 80.5 gms After 1 years growth, they contain rotenone and are used by natives in poisoning fish.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061360
modified: 2006-05-22 11:50:10.683000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Natal, Durban
ScientificName: Tephrosia macropoda
scientificNameAuthorship: (E.Mey.) Harv.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Tephrosia
specificEpithet: macropoda
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Two years old, cultivated. Stray label inside says ' Roots of Tephrosia paucifolia Nutt. U.S.America, Prof Goodale 1887.'    9.5oz approx 270.5 gms.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061361
modified: 2005-05-31 16:30:15.387000
locality: Africa
ScientificName: Tephrosia vogelii
scientificNameAuthorship: Hook.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Tephrosia
specificEpithet: vogelii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Separate pods are from Manganji Country, Central Africa, 1883 Sir J Kirk. Joined pods are from South West Tropical Africa, Dr Welwitsch 1864. 104. Seeds of fish poison plant growing abundantly near ? Manganji County near Sotshe? April 1859.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061362
modified: 2006-05-22 11:32:48.030000
ScientificName: Tephrosia purpurea
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Pers.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Tephrosia
specificEpithet: purpurea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This is a common weed in the rains. The whole plant, which is about 2ft in height, is pulled up when the flowers begin to appear, and tied in bundles for sale. It is described in the Bombay Flora as ' a shrubby erect much branched weed leaves pinnate leaflets cuneate oblong, leaf opposed; racemes peduncled, longer than the leaves; legumes slightly compressed, spreading, linear, falcate, obtuse, with a short point. To this may be added that there are from five to eight or nine pairs of leaflets, and generally a single terminal one, the largest an inch long and 3 tenths of an inch broard. The plant is a little bitter and is given in dyspepsia and bowel complaints arising from it. Sarpankha is generally to be retained in the shops. Dymock Pharm Journal.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061366
modified: 2006-05-22 11:36:01.210000
locality: West Tropical Africa
ScientificName: Tephrosia vogelii
scientificNameAuthorship: Hook.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Tephrosia
specificEpithet: vogelii
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Extract from Report on Gonga Country by assistant Inspector Armitage Dated 7. 1.98. Rec. thro Colonial Office, Kew Ap. 23. 1898. Fish are obtained from the larger rivers on the subsidence of the floods and are caught in baskets and nets. The people also use the leaf of a plant called ' Kassa' which they cultivate for that purpose. This plant grows to a height of 8 ft and has a pea like blossom. I forward herewith a small specimen of a dried Kassa plant. The flowers I could not obtain but made a sketch of the flowers of a similar plant which are however only half the size of the Kassa flower which is also of a deeper purplish pink colour. When Kassa is to be used in fishing a stretch of about half a mile of water is dammed and any alligators in it killed. The people from the neighbouring villages assemble, each bringing their bundle of Kassa leaves which are then beaten to a pulp taken to the prepared stretch of water and thrown in. Men then enter into the water and splash about and in about 10 mins fish begin to appear on the surface and are collected in baskets or by hand. The largest fish are taken in this way. The skin of the men who enter the water into which the Kassa pulp has been thrown is affected by the latter and becomes rough or as they say 'like a stick'. The blue dye used by the natives for their clothes is obtained from the nut of a tree called 'Langpara'? and from a plant called ' Gera' (Gonga) Sierra Leone Boundary Comm. per G T Scott Elliott. No. 3989 'Taury' ? of natives a shrub used for poisoning fish (seeds) Regent S. Leone. Notes from Herbarium specimens J.H.H. Ap. 6.1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061367
modified: 2018-11-15 15:29:55.530000
country: Zambia
countryCode: ZM
locality: Barotseland
ScientificName: Tephrosia vogelii
scientificNameAuthorship: Hook.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Tephrosia
specificEpithet: vogelii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See letter 79.1907 Small grey bean - native name Kambeti Habitat - Moist ground on edges of Barotse valley, rich loam. Average size of bush 8 to 10 inches high, spreading in clumps from 18' above ground. Delicate bunches of white bean likeflowers and grey green foliage. The natives use a paste of the leaves to strew in the pools of the Zambesi, where it apparently intoxicates the fish: I have seen great hauls of fish thus obtained. A decoction of the pods (green), bark and leaves is used by the women as an abortive; also for dogs and goats with the itch and similar skin diseases.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061396
modified: 2019-07-09 10:46:16.537000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Uttar Pradesh, Almora
ScientificName: Trigonella foenum-graecum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Trigonella
specificEpithet: foenum-graecum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No 18882 Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061413
modified: 2019-07-09 10:25:07.837000
ScientificName: Vicia faba
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vicia
specificEpithet: faba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A sowing may be made in November on light dry soil, but not until January, February and March on other soil. In either case the ground should be well manured Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061421
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Vicia faba
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vicia
specificEpithet: faba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  M6-1930 Beans a small sample received from Shanghai asking for name as they were slightly different from what they had been in the habit of receiving as 'China Horse Beans'. Gilbert J McCaul & Co 9 Bishopsgate E.C.2 31st Dec. 1929. to H M Ministry of Agriculture 10 Whitehall Place transmitted to Kew. Informed 'is variety of Vicia faba. This name is applied botanically to the Horse or Field Bean and the Broad bean. These received differ from the ordinary horse bean and appear to be a small cultivated form of the broad bean which is commonly grown as a garden crop, but sometimes the forms with small seeds may be grown as a field crop and known in commerce under the general term 'Horse Beans'. 3 Jan 1930.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061424
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan, Kioto Prefecture
ScientificName: Vicia faba
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vicia
specificEpithet: faba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Label inside says ' 62.1924 Beans Jamaica Broad, Phaseolus lunatus. Jamaica Agric Society. British Empire Exhib 1924. ?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061425
modified: 2010-06-04 12:00:11.520000
ScientificName: Vicia faba
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vicia
specificEpithet: faba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Field Beans  in sample of beans of German origin from Agric Dept Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne. Selected from a sample of Phaseolus vulgaris.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006144
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: British Guiana
ScientificName: Bowdichia virgilioides
scientificNameAuthorship: Kunth
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Bowdichia
specificEpithet: virgilioides
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See Freeman & Stone, Timber of British Guiana No. 85 possibly B. virgilioides JHH 10.04.26


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061442
modified: 2007-01-24 13:57:06.893000
country: Chile
countryCode: CL
locality: Chile
ScientificName: Vicia sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vicia
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Chile (TE Wallis, Pharm Soc), said to be exported from Chile to Germany in great quantities for an unknown use.  Dr Sprague to Museum for name 24/09/34.  Specimens received from Prof Clough, Ministry of Agric, 1929 & Imp Inst March 1929, said to contain prussic acid and have poisoned pigs.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061444
modified: 2005-07-06 10:10:13.170000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kew Gardens
ScientificName: Vicia sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vicia
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ministry of Agric, Veterinary Lab, at Weybridge.  See list from plants growing in the Lab ground taken 2nd Sept, 1929 in Chilean specimens cover.  See letters on Chilian peas.  Coll 2 No 4.  Picked Aug 12 1929, JHH, Specimens had been sentto the Herbarium some with flowers by Mr Edwards.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061451
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Vigna angularis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Willd.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vigna
specificEpithet: angularis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Phaseolus angularis Wight = No 34952 of Piper in Herb Kew JHH 11.iv.17 Letter 141,1917: xi p.135


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061484
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Transvaal
ScientificName: Vigna radiata
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) R.Wilczek
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vigna
specificEpithet: radiata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Specimens of a bean introduced from India, grown at Pretoria, sent for name by Hubert D Lappan, Prof in Agronomy Transvaal Agric College Pretoria - suggesting Phaseolus aureus = Phaseolus radiatus (P.aureus Roxb.)  Specimen from Mr Hutchinson in Herbarium 12.v.23 JH Holland


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061487
ScientificName: Vigna radiata
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) R.Wilczek
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vigna
specificEpithet: radiata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Hong Kong Restaurant 25.2.52, said to be superior to Indian grown samples in germination rate.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061531
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Surrey , Kew Gardens
ScientificName: Vigna unguiculata
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Walp.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vigna
specificEpithet: unguiculata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  South Nigeria. Grown at Kew. The darker seeds are those obtained from Imp. Inst. (Dr Chandler) and the pods were grown at Kew. J.H.H.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061535
country: Türkiye
countryCode: TR
locality: Turkey
ScientificName: Vigna unguiculata
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Walp.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vigna
specificEpithet: unguiculata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Said to be imported from Turkey & chiefly eaten by Turks, Cypriots & Greeks. Boiled & eaten with oil, lemon & olives & eaten in various ways like Haricot beans. S G Harrison. 1952.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061537
country: Sierra Leone
countryCode: SL
locality: Sierra Leone
ScientificName: Vigna unguiculata
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Walp.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Vigna
specificEpithet: unguiculata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Recd. at Museum 28.10.13. Piece of this specimen to Mr Crait ? 17.9.13 J.H.H. Letter 333-1913 viii.p.123. and 56/1913.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061543
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa
ScientificName: Virgilia capensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Virgilia
specificEpithet: capensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  It can be obtained in any quantity, and exudes very freely.  One ounce of this gum forms with 12 ounces of water a mucilage of the same thickness and consistency as one ounce of real Gum Arabic with 2 ounces of water. Mr Schmieterloew has kindly favoured me with the following qualitative analysis of this gum 'The gum of Virgilia capensis agrees with Cerasin (The gum of the cherry tree) more than with either Tragacanthin or Arabin, and contains no Bassorin.  It is slowly soluble in cold, but more readily in hot water.  One ounce of this gum forms with 12 ounces of water a mucilage of same thickness and consistency as one ounce of real gum arabic with 2 ounces of water and of equal transparency.  It shows less acidity than gum arabic; and in its chemical characteristics differs from Arabin as follows;  Arabin; Produces a copious precipitate with Oxalate of Ammonia, Diacetate of Lead produces a white caseaous precipitate, peroxide of Iron forms a brown jelly.  Strong spirits of wine turn the micilage white, like curdled milk.   Gum of Virgilia; Produces a faint milkiness with Oxalate of Ammonia, Diacetate of Lead gelatinizes the mucilage.  It miscible with this, without any other effect.  Does not throw down any caseous matter, andwithout impairing its consistency, can be mixed with the half of its bulk, which seems to make the solution more clear. The gum could be used in medicine like gum Tragacanth, and for many purposes where other gums like gum arabic are applied.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061547
modified: 2005-05-31 16:37:54.827000
country: Malawi
countryCode: MW
locality: Shire Valley
eventDate: 1859-06-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/06/1859
ScientificName: Voandzeia subterranea
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Thouars
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Voandzeia
specificEpithet: subterranea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Extensively cultivated.  There are various colours of this grown - some are black, others spotted.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061548
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Eastern Nigeria
ScientificName: Voandzeia subterranea
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Thouars
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Voandzeia
specificEpithet: subterranea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cultivated as pure lines for several years acc to seed coat colours. Sender Oyolu, Agric Research Station, Ministry of Agric, Umudike, Ummahia? Eastern Nigeria, Sent to Dr FN Hepper, Kew.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061552
country: Cameroon
countryCode: CM
locality: North Cameroons, Mayo Selbo, Belel
ScientificName: Voandzeia subterranea
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Thouars
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Voandzeia
specificEpithet: subterranea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Both cultivated.  2703 is a selection fo fruits showing normal seeded pod, airly frequent occurance of 2 seeded and only l in the whole collection of the smooth  podded form I enclose.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061553
country: Cameroon
countryCode: CM
locality: North Cameroons, Belel and Malabar
ScientificName: Voandzeia subterranea
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Thouars
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Voandzeia
specificEpithet: subterranea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Two packs of fruits (Wild) from FN Hepper.  1623 ; Smaller than cultivated form, less wrinkled seeds and  unmottled. 1630; Much smaller than cultivated.  All single seeded, smoother fruit surface.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061572
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Berkshire, Cookham Dean
ScientificName: Medicago sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Medicago
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Plant showing the penetrating nature of the roots. The seed was sown in a field at Cookham Dean, Berks., in 1892 and in May 1900, in digging for gravel the root was laid bare and fell out. The sandy surface soil in which it grew was 6 to 7inches deep, beneath which was a desposit of gravel 7 feet thick and then chalk into which the roots had penetrated.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061579
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Cornwall, Hayle
ScientificName: Lavatera arborea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Malvaceae
genus: Lavatera
specificEpithet: arborea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fibre and flowering specimen Named in Herb June 1931 From RE Gill 14 Market Street Falmouth


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061584
ScientificName: Ilex
scientificNameAuthorship: Tourn. ex L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
genus: Ilex
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Swaine & Adeney Whip Manufactures to The Queen, Piccadilly London No 11 A holly stick in the rough No 12 A holly stick scraped and set


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061597
modified: 2018-07-09 16:41:13.617000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia
ScientificName: Acer macrophyllum
scientificNameAuthorship: Pursh
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: macrophyllum
occurrenceRemarks:
Newcombe was paid $2.50 for this item in 1904. Geography inferred from cultural group (Salish). Part of Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061602
modified: 2016-12-13 11:24:23.963000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand, Alps of Canterbury, Mount Torlesse
identifiedBy: Hooker Sir Joseph
ScientificName: Raoulia mammillaris
scientificNameAuthorship: Hook.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Asteraceae
genus: Raoulia
specificEpithet: mammillaris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The Vegetable Sheep of the New Zealand Shepherds. This curious plant, which is allied to Gnaphalium, forms masses on the bare mountain tops, sp closely resembling sheep at a very short distance that the most experienced shepherds are oftendeceived by their appearance. Examined and verified by Sir Joseph Hooker Dec. 1881.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061604
locality: Central America
ScientificName: Myroxylon
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Myroxylon
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Jar in which Balsam of Peru was formerly imported from Central America. SG6 Hide covering of some sort.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061639
ScientificName: Geum urbanum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rosaceae
genus: Geum
specificEpithet: urbanum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Presented by HGE Glover Esq. London Oct. 1933. Sent to Mr Glover by Viscount Charlesmont, and said to be called 'Garden Fennel'.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061648
modified: 2004-05-04 15:25:00.790000
country: Peru
countryCode: PE
locality: Peru, Lima
ScientificName: Myroxylon peruiferum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Myroxylon
specificEpithet: peruiferum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  W Nation, Lima. Thro` D Hanbury. Opuscular source:  Lima April 13. 1871, Dear Doctor Hanbury, Last year I was too late when I received your letter. The pods are just ripe and I have been waiting - I have noline ? by this mail. Very Sincerely W Nation. A letter by next mail.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061651
country: Singapore
countryCode: SG
locality: Singapore
ScientificName: Myroxylon pereirae
scientificNameAuthorship: (Royle) Klotzsch
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Myroxylon
specificEpithet: pereirae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fruit of Balsam of Peru tree grown in Singapore. Essential oil from the seeds of the Balsam of Peru tree in bottle.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061667
modified: 2006-05-04 15:39:46.420000
ScientificName: Caesalpinia corymbosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Caesalpinia
specificEpithet: corymbosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ref Planchon & Collin 'Les Drogues Simples' 1896 pp 488-9 A mixture of the two species 0.57 Leguminosae ; S.O.2. Caesalpinieae; 13. Eucaesalpinieae


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061688
modified: 2006-05-10 16:30:54.840000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Zanzibar
ScientificName: Cassia beareana
scientificNameAuthorship: Holmes
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Cassia
specificEpithet: beareana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Copy of letter, dated Nov 9th 1923, Dear Prof Greenish, I have received from Zanzibar a small case of roots sent as Cassia beareana. Mr Boodle has compared a piece with a specimen of the root of this species which you kindly sent to the Museum a short time ago and they are believed to be the same. I am sending part of the consignment to you for your museum and for examination. May I ask if you would be so good as to furnish me with a report as to the medicinal value of the roots. Yours sincerely (signed) Arthur W Hill.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061689
country: Venezuela
countryCode: VE
locality: Venezuela
ScientificName: Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae
scientificNameAuthorship: (Royle) Harms
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Myroxylon
specificEpithet: balsamum
infraspecificEpithet: pereirae
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fruits from Mr Weir, New Grenada 1863 Fruits from Trinidad Quino Quino seeds from Bolivia, these I bought from some Bolivian Indians Resin recd with plant from A Goring 1868


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061709
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica
ScientificName: Piscidia piscipula
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Sarg.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Piscidia
specificEpithet: piscipula
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Tropical Products Inst dated 15 June 1962 Dr DW Mathieson, School of Pharmacy 29 Brunswick Square


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061711
modified: 2004-04-26 17:03:22.370000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard., Peckolt, J., de Millo, J.C.,
ScientificName: Myroxylon peruiferum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Myroxylon
specificEpithet: peruiferum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Various pieces of bark donated/collected by R Spruce (1862) from Chongon, near Guayaquil ; bark of Oleo Vermelho, J Peckolt (1864) ;  pods of Myroxylon peruiferum recieved from JC de Mello, 7.iii.(1866 and 1867); Also a pot of resin, JC deMello (1863) Campinas, S Paulo, Brazil; Pods of Myroxylon peruiferium from Th Peckolt (1867), Cantagallo ; Pods of Myrospermum erythroxylon Allem. recd 5.x. from Brazil (1863) from Prof Fenzel who recd them from Peckolt;


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061712
modified: 2006-08-03 15:46:36.260000
ScientificName: Acacia catechu
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.f.) Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Acacia
specificEpithet: catechu
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Catechu nigrum - an extract prepared from the wood of A.catechu and known as 'cutch'. Tonic and astringent. Contains catechutannic acid, catechin, catechu red, quercetin and gum. May be employed in making the official preparations for which pale catechu (gambier) ..... directed to be used. Dose 5 to 15 grains.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061716
recordedBy: Holway EWD
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, Yautepec - State of Morelos
eventDate: 1903-09-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/09/1903
ScientificName: Amphipterygium adstringens
scientificNameAuthorship: (Schltdl.) Schiede ex Standl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Amphipterygium
specificEpithet: adstringens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Collected for Dr J N Rose by Mr E W D Holway. 6550 Rose & Painter Recd. Jan 13, 1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061717
modified: 2006-08-03 15:33:09.227000
country: Mexico
countryCode: MX
locality: Mexico, State of Jalisco ?, Near Guadalajara
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Hillier, This is an interesting thing the Mexican name refers to both species. Between ? and Juglanaceae ? W.B.H. Rec'd. Jan 13, 1904. Se usau las cortegas coms astriagentes ? Farmap Ulex.? ed.3 (1896) p. 62


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061718
modified: 2003-12-31 15:41:22.567000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Corynocarpus laevigatus
scientificNameAuthorship: J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Corynocarpaceae
genus: Corynocarpus
specificEpithet: laevigatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  An illustrated account of Corynocarpus will shortly appear in the 'Annuals of Botany' W.B.N.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061723
locality: Oodeypore
ScientificName: Moringa concanensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Nimmo ex Dalzell & A.Gibson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Moringaceae
genus: Moringa
specificEpithet: concanensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Recd from Saharunpore as Moringa concanensis. Said by Dr Stapf to be this or a near species.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061725
modified: 2006-08-08 16:36:17.677000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Rajputana, Oodeypore (hills above)
ScientificName: Moringa concanensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Nimmo ex Dalzell & A.Gibson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Moringaceae
genus: Moringa
specificEpithet: concanensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seeds very similar in appearance to the Madras var of M. pterygosperma but pods much longer.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061727
country: Madagascar
countryCode: MG
locality: Madagascar
ScientificName: Moringa drouhardii
scientificNameAuthorship: Jum.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Moringaceae
genus: Moringa
specificEpithet: drouhardii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prof Jumelle Marseilles. Grains Hanche ? See Anll. du ? Col. for analysis about Jan 1930.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061728
modified: 2006-08-08 15:53:43.423000
country: Madagascar
countryCode: MG
locality: Madagascar
ScientificName: Moringa hildebrandtii
scientificNameAuthorship: Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Moringaceae
genus: Moringa
specificEpithet: hildebrandtii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  M98-30. Envoide M. Jumelle, Directeur du Musee Colonial, Faculte des Sciences Place Victor Hugo - Marseille. Grames noir. Prof Jumelle in his letter stated that an analysis was given in Anal. du Musee Col last fasc. ? Just published dated Marseille 22 Jan 1930. J.H.H.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061729
country: Belize
countryCode: BZ
locality: British Honduras
ScientificName: Moringa oleifera
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Moringaceae
genus: Moringa
specificEpithet: oleifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Decorticated seeds of Moringa ??? A machine is much required to take off the wings first from the seed.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061741
modified: 2006-01-17 16:51:32.593000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Oodenpore
ScientificName: Moringa oleifera
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Moringaceae
genus: Moringa
specificEpithet: oleifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Madras variety.  The pods of this variety are said to be delicious when cooked in a fresh state.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061748
modified: 2006-08-07 15:23:55.880000
country: Ethiopia
countryCode: ET
locality: Ethiopia
ScientificName: Moringa peregrina
scientificNameAuthorship: (Forssk.) Fiori
kingdom: Plantae
family: Moringaceae
genus: Moringa
specificEpithet: peregrina
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See letter 480, 1925 XVI p.165 Sample of material (no. 6108/25) of Arabian Origin. Director, Imperial Institute. (Ref. 5811) The sample of material (no. 6108/25) has been identified as stem, petiole etc. of Moringa aptera Gaertn. L.A.B. 4.1.26. 'Ban' or 'Bam' said to come from Abyssinia 'Stated to be employed for the dyeing and preserving of fabrics and fishing lines' Extract from above mentioned letter.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061753
modified: 2006-01-17 16:47:46.720000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Rajputana, Hills above Oodeypore
ScientificName: Moringa concanensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Nimmo ex Dalzell & A.Gibson
kingdom: Plantae
family: Moringaceae
genus: Moringa
specificEpithet: concanensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seeds very similar in appearance to the Madras variety of M pterygosperma, but pods are much longer.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061761
modified: 2006-08-08 16:06:59.150000
country: Niger
countryCode: NE
locality: West Tropical Africa, South Nigeria
ScientificName: Jaundea pinnata
scientificNameAuthorship: (P.Beauv.) G.Schellenb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Connaraceae
genus: Jaundea
specificEpithet: pinnata
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  The fruits of 'Sabongo' supply an aromatic drug which the natives of Hungo a country on the confines of the district of Golungo Alto, bring to the markets of Loanda; they are in much request by the negro population, who prepare from them various stomachic remedies, the fruits seem to be always threaded in the form of a rosary, and each rosary is sold at the price of from 50 to 150 milreis according to their greater or less abundance in the market. The fruits appeared to Welwitsch to belong to a tree of the family of Connaraceae, but he had no opportunity of ascertaining their origin; the people of Hungo, however assured him that they were furnished by a large and very leafy tree. (See Welwitsch Synopse Explic p.29, to 65.) They probably belong to Xylopicrum aethiopicum in Anonaceae & are represented in the collection by Coll Carp. 186 Fruits closely resembling 'Sabongo' (specimen in museum from Golungo Alto Welwitsch No. 32) were sent to Kew by Messrs Alex Miller Bros & Co; (coming originally from S. Nigeria) July 8th & were determined by Mr C H Wright to be Byrsocarpus (Rourea) sp. probably B. venulosa Hiern. Label source:  Foreign writing.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061767
locality: Arabia?
ScientificName: Moringa aptera
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Moringaceae
genus: Moringa
specificEpithet: aptera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used by the Arabs for colic.  Also they express from the seeds an oil, which they give to relieve pains after labour.  Dose 3T. Festuc - tan?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061769
modified: 2006-08-08 16:03:01.450000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Lannea coromandelica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Houtt.) Merr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Lannea
specificEpithet: coromandelica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The gum, Shimptee, or Mooi cha goud.  This gum is partly in tears of yellowish tinge, and partly in colourless angular fragments, which are full of fissures like gum arabic; it has a disagreeable taste, and is not astringent; about one half of it is completely soluble in water the remaining portion forms a slimy mucilage, but is not gelatinous.  The soluble portion, which is feebly acid, is precipitated by alcohol, and in a less degree by oxalate of ammonium, not at all by perchloride ofiron or borax.  Odina gum is mentioned in the Pharm of India, but is probably of no medicinal value, it might be of use in calico printing.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061782
modified: 2006-08-07 15:09:02.720000
country: Singapore
countryCode: SG
locality: Singapore
ScientificName: Connarus ferrugineus
scientificNameAuthorship: Jack
kingdom: Plantae
family: Connaraceae
genus: Connarus
specificEpithet: ferrugineus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  When fresh these have a fine vermilion hue. (Listed in catalogue of Branch Museum - label nearly obliterated)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061805
modified: 2006-11-07 11:20:48.287000
country: Ecuador
countryCode: EC
locality: Guiaquil ?
ScientificName: Rhus juglandifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Willd. ex Schult.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: juglandifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Alnnilla blauea ? A now noxious tree to fellor even to work amongst. Causes swelling of the hands, face and limbs etc. Kew Museum.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061809
modified: 2006-11-07 11:19:17.270000
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad
ScientificName: Anacardium occidentale
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Anacardium
specificEpithet: occidentale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Potter & Clarke Ltd. 60, 62, & 64 Artillery Lane, London E1 (With Compliments). Tree that yeilds the cashew nut. Acrid principle cardol found in the juice C32 H52 O4 poisonous. Related to toxicodendron from the poison ivy Rhus toxicodendron.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061810
modified: 2006-10-24 15:52:20.473000
locality: Smyrna
ScientificName: Rhus coriaria
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: coriaria
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The roots when wounded exude a gum which is occasionally used for the adulterating of Scammmy ? From SH Maltafs? Smyrna 1854


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061811
recordedBy: Johnston HH
country: Sierra Leone
countryCode: SL
locality: Sierra Leone, King Toms Point
eventDate: 1883-03-12 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 12/03/1883
ScientificName: Anacardium occidentale
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Anacardium
specificEpithet: occidentale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Collected at King Toms Point. Presented to Pharm Socy by The Director, Royal Gardens Kew 1883.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061814
modified: 2007-01-16 12:44:16.330000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Rhus succedanea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: succedanea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Japan wax imported from China (& Japan) and alluded to in the Pharm Journ Vol xii p476 note (a) 20/x/1852, Merry


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061815
modified: 2006-10-25 11:47:19.047000
locality: Indian
ScientificName: Sapindus trifoliatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Sapindus
specificEpithet: trifoliatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The fruits known as soap nut, are used as emetic and expectorant. The main constituent appears to be saponin to the extent of nearly 12 per cent. A plaster prepared with vinegar is used in reptile bites and scrofulous swelling with good results.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061838
modified: 2006-10-30 14:35:56.090000
country: Jamaica
countryCode: JM
locality: Jamaica
ScientificName: Rhus metopium
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: metopium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Gum obtained from the roots of an old tree of the Rhus metopium, growing in the Parish of Pareland, Jamaica


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061851
modified: 2006-10-27 12:03:38.457000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil
identifiedBy: Metcalfe CR
ScientificName: Anacardium occidentale
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Anacardium
specificEpithet: occidentale
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Mr Holland - This agrees well with the gum from A occidentale, described by Wisnor? under the name Cashewagummi, Acajou gummi, from Martonique, Guadaloupe and Brazil.  In physical and chemical properties, the gum is similar to that of Acacia spp. That part of the gum which is soluble in water consists of arabin and dextrin, and contains 1.5% sugar.  The gum contains 17.29 per cent of water and yields 1.22 per cent of ash. CRM 13.1.32


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061867
modified: 2010-05-27 15:41:40.797000
locality: Korea, Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia
ScientificName: Panax pseudoginseng
scientificNameAuthorship: Wall.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Araliaceae
genus: Panax
specificEpithet: pseudoginseng
occurrenceRemarks:
This is a food product which is manufactured as a granular form available to meet users taste.  It is chiefly made from the extract of Korean ginseng, the speciality of the Republic of Korea.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006188
country: Guyana
countryCode: GY
locality: British Guiana
ScientificName: Centrolobium paraense
scientificNameAuthorship: Tul.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Centrolobium
specificEpithet: paraense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sp. Grav. 0.84 or 52.5 lbs per cubic foot. Takes a fine polish, called by Brazilians 'Pau Reihna' or Queen of Woods. Plentiful in the Rupununi District.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061897
modified: 2007-09-10 10:50:45.090000
country: Zimbabwe
countryCode: ZW
locality: Rhodesia
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 303, 1919 : xiii p.62 Note dated August 26th 1919 - the secretary, Inc Oil Seed Assoc inform him with reference to the sample of fruit from Rhodesia, left at the Museum on the 22nd inst. appears to be that of Anaphrenium abyssinicum(synonym, Rhus insignis); but he regrets it has not been found possible to trace any information as to the economic uses. Letter 296, 1919 : xiii p.60 dated August 26th 1919 - Messrs Simson Bros & Co Ltd. inform them in reference to their two letters of the 11th and 19th inst. that the sample of fruit submitted for identification appears to be that of Anaphrenium abyssinicum; but he regrets it has not been found possible to  find any information as to the nature and uses of the oil they are said to contain nor of any other use to which they may be put. Stated to come from South Africa


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061898
modified: 2006-10-25 14:30:46.803000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria
ScientificName: Haematostaphis barteri
scientificNameAuthorship: Hook.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Haematostaphis
specificEpithet: barteri
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From Director 30.vi.32  Letter dated 2nd June 1932 in reply to Director letter dated Kew March 1st 1932.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061912
modified: 2006-10-27 15:34:13.910000
country: Argentina
countryCode: AR
locality: Argentine
ScientificName: Lithraea aroeirinha
scientificNameAuthorship: Marchand ex Warm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Lithraea
specificEpithet: aroeirinha
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This is correctly named. Have you any information as to the particular medicinal use? T.A.S. 6.12.04. No further information available. J.H.H. Dec. 17.04.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061913
country: Chile
countryCode: CL
locality: Valparaiso
ScientificName: Lithraea caustica
scientificNameAuthorship: (Molina) Hook. & Arn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Lithraea
specificEpithet: caustica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The species causes more or less severe dermatitis in persons touching it. See Journ. Bot. 1921, p.308. T.A.S. 4.5.28. Dont Touch The Leaves!.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061929
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Mysore, Madras
ScientificName: Mangifera indica
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Mangifera
specificEpithet: indica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  40. Mango bark. Canarise name; Mavina Madrada Chekke. Produced in the Province of Mysore. 28.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061930
modified: 2003-07-28 16:03:34.587000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Oudh Forests
ScientificName: Mangifera indica
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Mangifera
specificEpithet: indica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Collected direct from trees and forwarded specially by Conservator of Forests Oudh. Dec. 1878. Foreign writing.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061967
modified: 2007-01-25 17:27:56.587000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Bombay
ScientificName: Pistacia khinjuk
scientificNameAuthorship: Stocks
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pistacia
specificEpithet: khinjuk
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The galls when old are of a reddish brown colour as stated in the Pharmacopoeia of India, but when fresh are bright pink on one side and yellowish white on the other; they vary much in shape and size, some being perfectly fig-shaped, some almost spherical, the majority are ovoid; the apices are pointed or often mucronate; the largest have a diameter of from 5/8 to 6/8 of an inch; many are no larger than a pea. At the base a portion of leaf often remains attached; here also may be seen an open stoma which communicates with the interior of the sac; the walls are thin, brittle and translucent; the taste acidulous, very astringent and midly terebinthinous; the odour terebinthinous. When broken open most of the sacs are seen to contain only a little fecal debris, but in some skeletons of a aphis may be found, consisting of a head, thorax, and abdomen divided into segments, clothed all around with bristles. Gul-i-pistia is an astringent medicine; it is also used for tanning leather. The resin ofP. khinjuk is used in Bombay instead of mastic to which it is much inferior in perfume. Dymock


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061969
country: Tunisia
countryCode: TN
locality: Tunis
ScientificName: Pistacia lentiscus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pistacia
specificEpithet: lentiscus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Imported into Palermo from Tunis for adulterating Sumac - Rhus coriaria L. Taken from a bale.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061990
modified: 2006-10-27 15:14:36.883000
country: Cyprus
countryCode: CY
locality: Cyprus
ScientificName: Pistacia terebinthus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pistacia
specificEpithet: terebinthus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Package A contains raw seeds.  They are named Ipemioia in Cyprus and in the Island of Chio where they are produced and used in large quantities for condiments etc, and known under the name Tolkovoa?  From these seeds in Paphos an edible oil is extracted.  A white resin is obtained by tapping in Paphos in the spring.  This rosine after being purified and bleached by boiling with water is used for chewing instead of the mastic of chio. (Letter from P Gennadius Dated Jan 14th 1904.)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000061992
modified: 2006-10-27 15:23:54.877000
country: Cyprus
countryCode: CY
locality: Cyprus
ScientificName: Pistacia terebinthus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pistacia
specificEpithet: terebinthus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  From trees growing on the lower parts of Cyprus. Packages B & C - Salted seeds called Ipemioia here and in this state (salted) they are often found in the main markets of the Island and eaten as they are or put in cakes and condiments, the seeds B come from the trees of the mountains (61991) and this sample from lower parts of the Island.  The seeds are soaked in salt water and then dried, probably to prevent the attack of small


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000062
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: West Bengal, Calcutta, Calcutta Bot. Gards., India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Dillenia scabrella
scientificNameAuthorship: (D.Don) Roxb. ex Wall.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Dilleniaceae
genus: Dillenia
specificEpithet: scabrella
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Native of Assam and Silhet etc. From a tree destroyed by the cyclone of 1864, aged 54 years


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062003
modified: 2007-01-16 12:45:30.433000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Tanzania, Lulindi
ScientificName: Mangifera indica
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Mangifera
specificEpithet: indica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Specimens from Lulindi Tanganyika Terr. Dr JB Christopherson, 29 Devonshire Place W1. - The leaf has been identified as mango. The other specimens, viz A. wood with bark, B root and D root cannot be identified. LAB 17.8.27. Mango suggested for the leaf by Dr Dalziel and this naming confirmed by anatomical comparison. Small box containing pieces of wood. They are used by the natives as a remedy for leprosy. I think that the wood is filed and the filings are drunk (ie the larger stick) Thesmaller twigs are cut into pieces and soaked in water and the patient bathes the whole body in the water. This also applies to the flat pieces. The leaf did contain something that was given for a cough. (Extract from letter Dr Christopherson) JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062017
modified: 2006-05-22 16:07:30.997000
country: Cyprus
countryCode: CY
locality: Cyprus
ScientificName: Pistacia vera
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pistacia
specificEpithet: vera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seeds of a variety of Pistacia, obtained in Minorca from a sowing of seeds. Label source:  Package contains seeds of a variety of Pistacia obtained on Nicosia from a sowing of P.vera. As you will see the seeds D while they have the external colour of the seeds of P.palestina are very much larger, nearly half as large as the Pistachio nuts. The foliage of this variety of Pistachio resembles more P.palaestina than that of P.vera. Similar variation is often obtained also from seed of P.vera in Greece. The seeds D are two years old and worm eaten by the ?? beacause they were not salted (Ex from letter dated Jan 14/04 P.Gennadius to Director) JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062019
modified: 2007-10-05 11:56:03.780000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia, Brisbane
ScientificName: Pleiogynium solandri
scientificNameAuthorship: (Benth.) Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pleiogynium
specificEpithet: solandri
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter CT White Govt. Botanist, Bot Gard Brisbane dated 3rd Dec 1928 Recd from Director to Keeper of Museum 5.xi.29 See copy of letter in Anacardiaceae. From garden of Mr JE Young, Graceville  Brisbane


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062021
country: Tunisia
countryCode: TN
locality: Tunis
ScientificName: Rhus albida
scientificNameAuthorship: Schousb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: albida
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Keeper of Museums - Please note that Rhus pentaphylla sent by Ide & Christie is R.oxyacantha Cav. Can you supply the locality ? JAS 7.xii.06. Bark shipped from Tunis to Levant for tanning 333/1906 Nov 21st


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062023
modified: 2006-05-19 14:10:49.567000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Pistacia vera
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pistacia
specificEpithet: vera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sold in Indian markets under the name 'Gool-i-pista' and believed to be formed on the Pistachio tree.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062032
modified: 2006-07-24 16:12:55.693000
country: Cyprus
countryCode: CY
locality: Cyprus
ScientificName: Rhus coriaria
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: coriaria
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Holland asked for the specimen for Museum Letter No 12/H.127 - Mr Benson Coln Comm for Cyprus, Avonere House, Northumberland Avenue WC2


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062046
modified: 2006-05-18 11:58:43.157000
country: Cyprus
countryCode: CY
locality: Cyprus, Limnesol
ScientificName: Pistacia lentiscus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pistacia
specificEpithet: lentiscus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  1.Shinia 2. Leaves and gum from the Agamas Pamphas (uncultivated) 3. The plant from which mastic of commerce is collected 1876, taken from the garden of Mr Cathyrin at Limnesol


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062056
modified: 2006-06-09 14:17:49.930000
country: Cyprus
countryCode: CY
locality: Cyprus
ScientificName: Rhus coriaria
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: coriaria
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ottoman Empire - Albania. The 'Handels Museum' (Vienna) reports that the Turkish Government has granted to a syndicate known as the 'Societe anonyme pour l`exportation du sumac', the monopoly for five years of the export from Scutari and Janina of sumach and gentian. Board of Trade Journal 24.5.06. p.384. Sumach and Gentian Export Monopoly.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062068
modified: 2006-06-23 15:15:10.520000
country: Ecuador
countryCode: EC
locality: Guaiaquil
ScientificName: Rhus juglandifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Willd. ex Schult.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: juglandifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A poisonous plant causing swelling of the hands, face, etc.  Label source:  A most noxious tree to fell or even to work among. From JV Sigvalu ? Mueller A.M.I.C.E. Guayaquil Ecuador


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006207
modified: 2019-02-25 12:28:08.097000
country: Colombia
countryCode: CO
locality: Locality revised 2019
ScientificName: Clathrotropis macrocarpa
scientificNameAuthorship: Ducke
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Clathrotropis
specificEpithet: macrocarpa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: Label source: Clathrotropis macrocarpa Ducke 57 Colombia, S.America 22.9.1976 National Univ. of Colombia No.19  Notes updated 2019


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062072
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Rhus semialata
scientificNameAuthorship: Murray
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: semialata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Japanese writing. Galls- nuts best quality dried by means of fire. Galls produced on Rhus.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062073
modified: 2006-07-17 17:16:05.670000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Rhus semialata
scientificNameAuthorship: Murray
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: semialata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Celebrated in China as an astringent used for dyeing, and medicinally. Produced by the puncture of an insect on the branches and leaves.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062101
modified: 2016-12-13 11:25:49.227000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Ichang
ScientificName: Anacardiaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: R.Br.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Knife used for incising the stems of the varnish tree and receptacles for collecting the varnish.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062102
modified: 2013-10-01 16:43:15.577000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Rhus vernicifera
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: vernicifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prepared and applied to wood surface in England.  Wood prepared at High Wycombe Factory, 4 Oxford Road, High Wycombe.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062106
modified: 2007-01-16 12:51:09.767000
country: Japan
countryCode: JP
locality: Japan
ScientificName: Rhus succedanea
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: succedanea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Samples of wax bought at Osakaya as follows; 1. Refined white wax similar in appearance to beeswax, used for polishing wood by joiners and making pomade 9 (not kept).  2. Bungo green wax used in manuf of candles. (not kept),  3. Chikugo grey wax for candles.  Japanese.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006211
recordNumber: 299
recordedBy: Jefford TG, Juniper BE, Newbould J
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Tanzania
ScientificName: Craibia affinis
scientificNameAuthorship: (De Wild.) De Wild.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Craibia
specificEpithet: affinis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Slender tree 35 feet high. Branches +/- vertical, little branched. Wood hard. Kasangazi altitude 5 000 ft.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062110
modified: 2006-09-25 11:42:59.107000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Rhus semialata
scientificNameAuthorship: Murray
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: semialata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Chinese galls (Woo-pei-tsze) produced by the puncture of an insect on branches of Rhus semialata


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062119
modified: 2006-09-25 09:55:34.983000
country: Argentina
countryCode: AR
locality: Argentina
ScientificName: Schinopsis balansae
scientificNameAuthorship: Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Schinopsis
specificEpithet: balansae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Museums - h/w further sample of S.balansae Engl. This is known as red quebracho. Chaguena and is considered the best in the Argentine for the production of tannis NLS (?) 21.6.28 Note - B/aires 4/4/1928 approx 25 lbs - 10 kilos - quebrachoColurado seed for RGB Kew. London letter 1720 - 10th July 1928


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062127
modified: 2006-08-23 17:08:55.883000
country: Argentina
countryCode: AR
locality: Argentine
ScientificName: Schinopsis lorentzii
scientificNameAuthorship: (Griseb.) Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Schinopsis
specificEpithet: lorentzii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See p. 268 'Argentina from a British point of View' Tannin extract from Quebracho Colorado 'In a fine powdered state, absolutely pure'. J.H.H. 28.viii.13.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062128
modified: 2006-08-23 17:13:04.310000
country: Argentina
countryCode: AR
locality: Argentina
ScientificName: Schinopsis lorentzii
scientificNameAuthorship: (Griseb.) Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Schinopsis
specificEpithet: lorentzii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  San Ignacio-La Cocha F.C.N.O.A. - Tucuman  Republica Argentina. Recolectado Por el 'Agronomo Regional' 9 De Julio No. 798 Tucuman. No. 58/1921. See letter dated Buenos Aires 18 Aug advising despatch of another packet of seeds of Quebrachocolorado obtained from the province of Tucuman.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062134
country: Argentina
countryCode: AR
locality: Argentina, Buenos Aires
ScientificName: Schinopsis lorentzii
scientificNameAuthorship: (Griseb.) Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Schinopsis
specificEpithet: lorentzii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Approx 2lb of seed received.  Supplied to His Majesties Rep at Buenos Aires, by the Manager of the Forestal Land, Timber and Railways Co


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062147
modified: 2004-07-20 12:52:37.447000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Rio Negro
ScientificName: Spondias mombin
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Spondias
specificEpithet: mombin
occurrenceRemarks:
Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses.  Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p23:   The edible fruits are very juicy and rather acid.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062150
modified: 2019-07-23 10:41:03.827000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Central Provinces, Seoni, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Semecarpus anacardium
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Semecarpus
specificEpithet: anacardium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This is regarded by the Hindus as acrid, heating, stimulant, digestive, nervine and escharotic, and is used in dyspepsia, piles, skin diseases and nervous  debility.   It is prepared for internal use by being boiled with cowdung and afterwards washed with cold water.  The nut is also used to produce the appearance of a bruise in support of criminal charges preferred through enmity, and the juice is sometimes applied to the body out of revenge, the victim having first been made insensible by the administration of narcotics.  In Sanskrit medicinal works, a section is often devoted to the treatment of ulcerations thus produced.  When given internally the juice of the pericarp is always mixed with oil or melted butter.  The Arabic name for thenut is Hab ul Kalb, an allusion to the heart shaped form.  Mahometan writers order the juice to be always mixed with oil, butter, or some oily seed, when used for internal administration.  They consider it to be hot and dry, useful in all kinds of skin diseases, palsy epilepsy and other affections of the nervous system, the dose being from 1/4 to 1/2 a dirhem.  Externally they apply it to cold swellings. When too large a quantity has been taken oily and mucilaginous remedies should be prescribed.  2 dirhems is considered a poisonous dose.  Some persons are much more readily affected by the drug than others.  Garcia d`Orta remarks that the poisonous properties of the marking nut have been much exaggerated by Serapion, and goes on to say that in Goa it is administered internally in asthma after having been steeped in butter milk, and is also given as a vermifuge, and moreover, says he, we (the Portuguese) salt the young green fruit and use them like olives.  Ainslie gives the following account of its use inS.India.  The Hindus give the juice as scrofulous, venereal and leprous affections in very small doses.  An oil is also prepared with the nut by boiling which is used externally in rheumatism and sprains; it is of a very stimulating nature.  Undiluted itacts as a blister, The Telingoes have the following prescription;  Juice of marking nut and garlic of each one ounce, juice of fresh tamarind leaves, cocoa nut oil, and sugar, of each two ounces; mix and boil for a few minutes.  Dose one table spoonful twice daily in syphilis, aches, sprains, etc.  Mixed with a little quicklime and water the juice is used all over India for marking linen and is far more durable than the marking inks of Europe.  In the Pharm of India, the exaggerated notions of its injurious   properties  were revived.  The marking nut is well described by the Arabs as resembling the heart of an animal, the torus representing the auricles and the fruit the ventricles.  In the dry commercial article the torus is seldom present and the fruit is of the size and shape of a broad bean, of a black colour and quite hard and dry externally, but upon breaking the outer skin with a knife the central cellular portion of the pericarp will be found full of a black oily acrid juice; inside the pericarpisa thin shell, conformed to it, and containing a large flat kernel, which has no acrid properties.  Commerce - Marking nuts come from various parts of the country Value 3/4 R per Surat maund of 37 1/2 lbs.  Dymock from the Pharm Journ.  Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062159
recordNumber: 20460
modified: 2007-04-12 15:42:43.733000
recordedBy: Gueho J
country: Mauritius
countryCode: MU
locality: Mauritius, Magenta Valley
eventDate: 1983-06-26 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 26/06/1983
ScientificName: Schinus terebinthifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Raddi
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Schinus
specificEpithet: terebinthifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Duplicate.  Low tree with bright red fruits.  Naturalized and very common in scrubs and native forest. Flora of Mauritius


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062172
modified: 2006-09-18 16:26:23.707000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: South Nigeria, Oban
ScientificName: Trichoscypha braunii
scientificNameAuthorship: Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Trichoscypha
specificEpithet: braunii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr Hillier -  The seeds from Oban I gave you belong obviously to Trichoscypha and are very similar to those of T. braunii Engl. Not seeds but rather putamina Dr Stapf - I should like to have a few more of these seeds with full particulars for the Museum. JMst 12.3.12


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062182
modified: 2013-01-15 11:46:21.953000
country: Italy
countryCode: IT
locality: Italy, Rome
ScientificName: Pistacia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pistacia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Over two thousand years old, dug up in Rome by Signor CE Wild, Strada Reale di Supergra 72, Sassi (Torina), Italy, in preparing for new buildings in Old Rome


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062184
country: Uganda
countryCode: UG
locality: Uganda
ScientificName: Pseudospondias microcarpa
scientificNameAuthorship: (A.Rich.) Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Pseudospondias
specificEpithet: microcarpa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  P.S. the latter is made from the spreading planks of the tree. I will let you know the species when it is worked out.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062187
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Punjab
ScientificName: Rhus punjabensis
scientificNameAuthorship: J.L.Stewart ex Brandis
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Rhus
specificEpithet: punjabensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Exhibitors name - GG Minuiken Esq (?), Deputy Conservator of Forests Bashahr Division


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062193
modified: 2006-09-25 14:51:13.447000
ScientificName: Anacardiaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: R.Br.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Note source:  Odd items found in the Anacardiaceae cupboard but with no labels, tools for collecting the resin from trees ?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062205
modified: 2010-04-21 15:19:15.360000
ScientificName: Melianthus major
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Francoaceae
genus: Melianthus
specificEpithet: major
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Every part of this plant has a nauseous smell, whence it has received the Dutch name of Truytje roer my niet. A decoction of the leaves is an excellent external remedy in Tinea capitis, Crusta serpiginosa, Necrosis and foul ulcers. It is also useful as a gargle and lotion in sore throat and in disease of the gums and the bruised leaves applied to ulcers, promote granulation. It is common in the Cape Flats and other parts of the Colony, and deserves a trail in cases of Plica Polonica.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062212
modified: 2003-11-07 09:20:53.797000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Islands
ScientificName: Acer glabrum
scientificNameAuthorship: Torr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: glabrum
occurrenceRemarks:
Set of 53 gambling sticks made by the Haida. Entry book reads: 'Acer glabrum, gambling sticks, Haida.' Newcombe was paid $8.00 for this item in 1904.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062221
modified: 2003-02-24 11:55:39.687000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Nass River
ScientificName: Acer glabrum
scientificNameAuthorship: Torr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: glabrum
occurrenceRemarks:
Entry book reads: 'Strips of the material [mountain maple, Acer glabrum] dyed and undyed. Tsimshian, Nass River, east of the Coast Range, British Columbia.' Used for making baskets (gawaks).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062222
modified: 2007-01-18 15:47:56.203000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: Philadelphia
ScientificName: Acer saccharum
scientificNameAuthorship: Marshall
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: saccharum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seeds as supplied by Muhen ?? & Sons, Philadelphia for Dr Aitchison to plant in Kashmir. 4.11.94.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062236
modified: 2007-01-18 14:46:57.007000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: North America
ScientificName: Acer spicatum
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: spicatum
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Four notes enclosed as follows ; 1. Feb 24th 1914. Inform them that the sample of cramp bark submitted for ident is not the bark of Viburnum opulus, but probably Acer spicatum.   2. As above.  3. We maintain that it is Viburnum opulus. 4. The is probably Acer spicatum LaB 23.2.14


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062237
modified: 2007-01-18 16:01:30.200000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: US America, Vermont
ScientificName: Acer
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pure Vermont Rock Maple Sugar and Syrup.  Sugar in wooden tubs, 30, 50, and 80 lbs. Orders solicited for family use.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062247
modified: 2006-11-13 15:13:52.927000
ScientificName: Acer campestre
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: campestre
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fruits bearing from two to eight samara in each cluster. On Polycotyledons - see morphological notes (Sir WTT Dyer) From Annals of Botany XVI sept 1902, where this specimen is referred to.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062248
modified: 2018-01-09 16:53:03.967000
ScientificName: Acer saccharum
scientificNameAuthorship: Marshall
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: saccharum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Showing adaptability for writing upon Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062262
modified: 2003-02-24 11:55:46.820000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia
ScientificName: Acer macrophyllum
scientificNameAuthorship: Pursh
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: macrophyllum
occurrenceRemarks:
Handwritten note reads: 'Spindle wheel of Acer macrophyllum Pursh. Salish Indians, NW Coast of N America.' Newcombe was paid $2.00 for this item in 1904. Geography inferred from cultural group (Salish).


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062265
modified: 2011-01-31 15:06:41.057000
ScientificName: Acer pseudoplatanus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: pseudoplatanus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Presented by Messrs W & A Smith Manufactures, 61 Charlotte St, Birmingham. Variety of articles of Scotch fancy wood work, made chiefly of the wood of the Sycamore tree; consisting of snuff-boxes, cigar cases, card cases etc., ornamented in different styles. Snuff-boxes, in various stages of progression. The 'Scotch Hinge' is applied to many of these articles. By the process termed 'checking', diapered patterns are produced, many of them in imitation of the clan tartans of Scotland. By thestyle called 'Scoto-Russian', an imitation of engine turned lines, inlaid with silver, is produced, and the ornament being secured by copal varnish is not liable to become tarnished.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062267
modified: 2002-12-03 12:10:12.763000
ScientificName: Acer
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
occurrenceRemarks:
This catalogue number formerly contained seven different spoons made of Acer spp. with six loose labels in the box. Six of these spoons have been identified and reaccessioned (December 2002) - see Catalogue Nos. 77097-77102.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062270
modified: 2007-06-27 11:20:13.780000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, British Columbia, Nass River
ScientificName: Acer glabrum
scientificNameAuthorship: Torr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Acer
specificEpithet: glabrum
occurrenceRemarks:
Entry book reads: 'Basket or Wallet (Gawaks) made of the bast of the mountain maple (Acer glabrum)...Tsimshian, Nass River, east of the Coast Range, British Columbia.' Conserved by TCC.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062276
modified: 2006-07-20 15:33:48.727000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, Kent , Dartford
ScientificName: Aesculus hippocastanum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Aesculus
specificEpithet: hippocastanum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Collected from large branches of a tree growing in the Wellcome Staff Club grounds at Dartford Jan 19424/W/22


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006230
modified: 2024-11-15 17:56:08.373000
country: Thailand
countryCode: TH
locality: Thailand
ScientificName: Dalbergia cochinchinensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Pierre
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
specificEpithet: cochinchinensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  North Eastern Provinces. Plentiful.  Ticals 5.50 to 8 per picul (Per 133lbs) Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062303
modified: 2004-03-29 17:11:53.243000
country: New Zealand
countryCode: NZ
locality: New Zealand
ScientificName: Alectryon excelsus
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Alectryon
specificEpithet: excelsus
occurrenceRemarks:
'The oil is extracted from the large woody seed, thus; - The seeds are collected into a peculiar long pouch, made of the leaves of Phormium, in which, after having been softened by baking and steaming in the native ovens, they are well beaten, and the long pouch is twisted and the oil drops. The which I now send, has stood 12 months to purify' WC


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062315
recordedBy: Loher A
country: Philippines
countryCode: PH
locality: Philippines
eventDate: 1905-06-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/06/1905
ScientificName: Cupania helferi
scientificNameAuthorship: Hiern
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Cupania
specificEpithet: helferi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Antifebrin. 5888 Arbor. Herbarium Kewense Philippine Islands. (Naldarnedens ad tuming) n.507 ? Siya bundoc (Rizal) ???


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062322
modified: 2006-11-10 15:29:33.940000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Bombay
ScientificName: Cardiospermum halicacabum
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Cardiospermum
specificEpithet: halicacabum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sanskrit writers mention this plant under the name of jyautishmati, and describe the root as emetic, laxative, stomachic and rubefacient; they prescribe it in rheumatism, nervous diseases, piles etc.  The leaves are used in amenorrhoea. The following prescription is given in the Bhavaprakasha 'take the leaves of C halicacabum, impure carbonate of potash (Sarjika), Acorus calamus root, root bark of Terminalia tomentosa of equal parts and reduce to a paste with milk.  About a drachm of this compound may be taken daily for three days in amenorrhoea.'  Rheede says that on the Malabar coast the leaves are administered in pulmonic complaints.  According to Ainslie the root is considered aperient, and is given twice daily.  It would appear that in rheumatism the Hindus administer the leaves internally, rubbed up with castor oil and also appy a paste made with them externally; a similar external application is used to reduce swellings and tumours of various kinds.  Annusal, climbing; stem, petioles, and leaves nearly glabrous; leaves biternate; leaflets stalked, oblong, much acuminated, coarsely cut and serrated; flowers small, white or pink; fruit a membranous bladdery capsule, three celled, three valved; seeds globose, black with a two lobed white aril at the base; roots white and fibrous, with a rather disagreeable odour and an acrid nauseous and somewhat bitter taste.  Dymock Pharm Journ.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062326
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
identifiedBy: Tang Chen-zi
ScientificName: Euphoria longana
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Euphoria
specificEpithet: longana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Too much causes hotness and nose-bleed. Purchased by Museums staff in London W1. Net weight 8ozs. Chinese Products. 65p.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062339
modified: 2006-12-05 16:02:14
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: Cape of Good Hope
ScientificName: Dodonaea thunbergiana
scientificNameAuthorship: Eckl. & Zeyh.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Dodonaea
specificEpithet: thunbergiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A small ? tree or shrub, common about Piquetberg, Worcester, & ? william, where it is called Z and Olyf. A decoction of the ??? used as a slight purgative in fevers.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062368
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Amazon District
ScientificName: Matayba guianensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Aubl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Matayba
specificEpithet: guianensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No 32 produce of Cupania micrantha Mart. see specimens in Herb Parica bark from Wallace Also  bark from HW Bates Santarem brazil


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062373
modified: 2019-07-02 10:28:58.957000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Para, Santarem
ScientificName: Paullinia cupana
scientificNameAuthorship: Kunth
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Paullinia
specificEpithet: cupana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Pao de Guarana prepared chiefly by the Manhe Indians (inhabiting the banks of the Rio Manhe which enters the Amazon between the Tapajoz and the Madeira) from the roasted and pounded seeds of the Guarana. It is used throughout the Province of Para, and still more extensively in the mines of Cuyaba in Matto Grosso, in the preparation of a cooling beverage and as a supposed preventive of all manner of diseases.  Source: Spruce, R. (1908) IN: Wallace, A. ed. Notes of a botanist on the Amazon&Andes : being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga and Pastasa ; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and theshores of the Pacific, during the years 1849-1864 / by Richard Spruce ; edited and condensed by Alfred Russell Wallace, with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps 2,   p 448: Another powerful nervous tonic and sub-narcotic is cupana or guarana, which isprepared from the seed of a twining plant of the family of Sapindacaceae. The Indians scrape the seeds, mix them with flour of cassava envelopthe mass in plantain leaves and set it to ferment in water till it acquiresasaffron- yellow colour. This yellow paste dried in the sun and diluted in water is taken in morning as kind of tea.  [Considered] a preservative against the malignant bilious fevers which are the scourge of that region. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062374
modified: 2004-07-20 13:06:30.817000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Amazonas
ScientificName: Sapindaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Tongue of a fish called Pirarucu, used for grating down sticks of Guarana. Pirarucu... is the monarch of the fishes of the Amazon and one of the finest fresh-water fishes in the world. When fully grown it measures 6 to 8 fett long, weighs from 60 to 100 pounds and yields about one third that weight of dried fish. When fresh it is capital eating, although scarcely the equal of salmon, with the exception of the lower part of the belly....


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062379
modified: 2006-01-17 14:56:20.350000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Rio Negro
ScientificName: Paullinia cupana
scientificNameAuthorship: Kunth
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Paullinia
specificEpithet: cupana
occurrenceRemarks:
Source: Spruce, R. (1908) IN: Wallace, A. ed. Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, p 448 : Another powerful nervous tonic and sub-narcotic is cupana or guarana, which is prepared from the seed of a twining plant of the family of Sapindacaceae. The Indians scrape the seeds, mix them with flour of cassava envelop the mass in plantain leaves and set it to ferment in water till it acquires a saffron- yellow colour.  This yellow paste dried in the sun and diluted in water is taken in morning as kind oftea.  [Considered] a preservative against the malignant bilious fevers which are the scourge of that region.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062381
modified: 2006-11-28 15:08:30.007000
country: Trinidad and Tobago
countryCode: TT
locality: Trinidad
ScientificName: Paullinia leiocarpa
scientificNameAuthorship: Griseb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Paullinia
specificEpithet: leiocarpa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source: 'Vine known in Trinidad as Balbac and used as a fish poison. The method of employing it is to cut a number of pieces of the stem, say about 1 inch long, macerate the bark by bruising it and simply put the pieces into the water. After a time the fish come to the surface and can easily be caught. The water turns black but the fish are edible'. (extracted from letter from RC Marshall; Conservator of Forests Trinidad of 24.11.30)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062420
modified: 2006-08-08 16:16:30.710000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Madras, Godavari
ScientificName: Sapindus trifoliatus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Sapindus
specificEpithet: trifoliatus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The soapnut, in Sanskrit phenila, has probably been in use among the Hindus from the earliest ages as a detergent.  Both Hindus and Mahometans use it medicinally.  The latter on their first arrival in the country gave it the name of bundukor finduk i hindee (Indian filbert).  The following account of its use is extracted from the Makhzan ul adwiya.  The pulp of the fruit is at first sweetish to the taste, afterwards very bitter; it is hot and dry.  Tonic and alexipharmic.  A four grain dose in wine and sherbet cures colic.  One miskal rubbed in water until it soaps, and then strained may be given to people who have been bitten by venemous reptiles and to those suffering from diarrhoea or cholera.  Three or four grains may be given by the nose in all kinds of fits producing insensibility.  Fumigations with it are suseful in hysteria and melancholy.  Externally it may be applied, made into a plaster with vinegar, to the bites of reptiles and to scrofulous swellings.  The root is said to be useful as an expectorant.  Pessaries made of the kernel of the seed are used to stimulate the uterus in childbirth and amenorrhoea.  One miskal of the pulp with one eighth of a miskal of scammony acts as a good brisk purgative.  Ainslie mentions its use by the Vytians as an expectorant in asthma.  In Bombay it is given successfully as an anthelmintic in four grain doses.  Berries 3 - united, when ripe soft, and of a yellowish green colour, singly they are  of the size of a cherry, somewhat uniform with a heart shaped scar on the attached side.  When dry they are  of the colour of a raisin; skin shrivelled, pulp translucent, absent on the attached side.  The inner shell enclosing the seed is thin tough and translucent like parchment, except at the scar, where it is woody.  Seed the same shape as the fruit, black smooth except at the hilum, where it is tomentose, size of a large pea; on the upper part of the dorsum of the seed are two shallow diverging furrows.  The testa is double the outer very thick and hard; the inner membranaceous, kernel yellowish green and oily; cotyledons unequal, thick, firm and fleshy, spirally incurvate.  The pulp of the fruit smells like compound extract of colocynth; its taste is sweet at first, afterwards very bitter.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062422
modified: 2006-08-03 16:31:17.640000
country: Algeria
countryCode: DZ
locality: Algeria, Algiers
ScientificName: Sapindus utilis
scientificNameAuthorship: Trab.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Sapindus
specificEpithet: utilis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The tree appears to be of some importance in Algeria, and some particulars are given in Diplomatic & Consular Report No 3712,1906 pp 9-10.  The Soap Tree in Algeria (obtainable of Messrs Wyman & Sons, Ltd. Fetter Lane, London)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062435
modified: 2006-07-27 15:03:46.713000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Bengal, Palamamao
ScientificName: Schleichera trijuga
scientificNameAuthorship: Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Schleichera
specificEpithet: trijuga
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Class 1 Forest Dept Exhib, Division B Raw Products, Section 2 Minor Forest Product, Exhibitors name Exlrd Asst Conservator Palamamao Divisional Forests Address Palamau Daltongung


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062438
modified: 2006-07-27 15:21:07.550000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Bengal, Palaman
ScientificName: Schleichera trijuga
scientificNameAuthorship: Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Schleichera
specificEpithet: trijuga
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Class 1 Forest Dept Exhib, division B, raw products, section 2 Menon forest products, Exhibitors name extra Ass Conserv of forests Palaman Division Address Palamau Daltaugung


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062441
modified: 2004-04-30 13:28:50.943000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil
ScientificName: Serjania curassavica
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Radlk.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Serjania
specificEpithet: curassavica
occurrenceRemarks:
Source:  Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses.  Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p53.: Thick reddish root beaten up in water, stupefies larger fish and kills small ones.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062444
locality: Texas & Mexico
ScientificName: Ungnadia speciosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Endl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Ungnadia
specificEpithet: speciosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Also an envelope containing one seed, Buck Eye sent as 'oil bulb' from Mexico Phaschkaner & Co, 1.1909, N.Prod Jan 19th 1909


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062449
modified: 2004-01-14 16:29:21.403000
ScientificName: Seriania
scientificNameAuthorship: Plum. ex Schumach.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Seriania
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No 26 root used to poison fish in water. The root is moistened and beaten then washed in the water in still water. This quanity is sufficient to kill a pound of fish. Timbo is the Indian name of wood from which is procured the celebrated intoxicating posion used by the Indian fishermen. It is one of the innumerable rope plants with which the tropical forest abounds. Specimens of wood and root from both of which the poison is procured. E Hallow


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062466
modified: 2004-07-20 12:47:52.783000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Ecuador
countryCode: EC
locality: Ecuador, Quitonian Andes
ScientificName: Sapindaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Note from Rowina Gale to Rosemary Angel (Returned to case 11/12/1979).  Sorry about the delay in replying.  It has caused great problems in the identification.  It definitely matches the characters of the family Sapindaceae, but none of our slides in the collection of this group.  I have made further slides of the woods in the museum from South America that were not represented in the Jodrell - still to no avail.  I checked the flora of the area and found nothing likely - and no mention of Palo de Rosario.  It seems as if we take it no further than the family.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062469
modified: 2017-01-16 15:47:47.703000
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia, New South Wales, Nameneera River
ScientificName: Harpullia pendula
scientificNameAuthorship: Planch. ex F.Muell.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Sapindaceae
genus: Harpullia
specificEpithet: pendula
occurrenceRemarks:
In display 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC) Photographed and catalogued in November 2016 as part of the Musical Instrument Interface for Museums and Collections (MINIM-UK) project, Royal College of Music, www.minim-uk.org


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062489
modified: 2006-08-07 15:46:38.893000
country: Cuba
countryCode: CU
locality: Cuba
ScientificName: Vitis caribaea
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Vitaceae
genus: Vitis
specificEpithet: caribaea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew. C F Baker Economic Plants of the World. No. 22 Cuba. This grape is common along ravines & thickets; throughout Eastern Cuba. They make first class jelly.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062492
country: Malawi
countryCode: MW
locality: Nyasaland
ScientificName: Vitis rubiginosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Welw. ex Baker
kingdom: Plantae
family: Vitaceae
genus: Vitis
specificEpithet: rubiginosa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  ex Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew. Vitis rubiginosa Welw. or very near to it. North Nyasa. Coll & Comm. Dr J.E.B. Old.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062494
modified: 2010-04-19 12:46:16.777000
country: Solomon Islands
countryCode: SB
locality: Solomon Islands, San Christoval
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Fasia 43.? Vitis saponaria climbing on the highest trees. Bark stripped off and the ? stems used for fishing lines. J Chas Lovat ??


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062495
modified: 2006-07-28 16:42:02.340000
locality: Smyrna
ScientificName: Vitis
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Vitaceae
genus: Vitis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Currants imported from Smyrna and classed as raisins by the customs being charged 7/ per cwt duty instead of 2/ the currant duty.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062503
country: Italy
countryCode: IT
locality: Italy, Mentone, La Mortola
ScientificName: Vitis
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Vitaceae
genus: Vitis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Grapes grown in the garden of Thos Hanbury.  No particular care was given to their cultivation.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062510
modified: 2009-02-05 08:48:40.337000
country: Spain
countryCode: ES
locality: Spain, Cadiz Bay, Port St Mary
ScientificName: Vitaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Vitaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Yeso from Port St Mary - a kind of plaster used in Spain to sprinkle on the grapes before pressing, about 10lbs of this plaster is used for a butt of wine (108 gallons)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062519
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Goa
ScientificName: Leea
scientificNameAuthorship: D.Royen
kingdom: Plantae
family: Vitaceae
genus: Leea
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This is the root of a stout undershrub with large pinnate leaves, very common in Goa.  The roots are long and straight, branched.  The bark is slightly scabrous, dark brown externally, striated, internally it is red and striated; the wood is porous, and shows very distinct medually rays?  Microscopic appearances not in any way remarkable.  The bark has an agreeable astringent taste; the wood appears to be inert.  Geeno is the Ratanhia of the Portuguese at Goa, and has a considerable resemblance to that drug.  It is administered in diarrhoea and chronic dysentery.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062528
ScientificName: Vitis
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Vitaceae
genus: Vitis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Display case of Vine beetle - Otiorhynchus slucatus, Fab. and other sps.  Vine leaf eaten by beetles. Chrysalis magnified (Diagram), perfect beetle (O. sulcatus and O picipes, Grub or lava and chryalis or pupa, and diagram of grub magnified.  Black vine weevil - O sulcatus - and others of the genus do great harm by feeding on shoots, leaves, and buds of various bush fruits and other garden and hot house plants.  The grubs also do harm by feeding on the roots.  The eggs are laid a littlebelow the surface of the ground, and the maggots are to be found from about August until the following spring, at the roots of their food plants.  The Chrysalids may be found in April, laying about 3 or 4 inches below the surface.  The weevils, which appear shortly after, are wingless, and shelter themselves by day in any convenient place, as crevices in walls, under rough bark, or under loose stones near the plants, and come out at night. Prevention and remedies;  The best remedy is to shake the beetles down at night on cloths or papers, or tarred boards.  They drop on disturbance, or when a light shines on them, therefore it is desirable in hothouses to place the cloths by daylight, and be ready, when the light is thrown on, to gather up what fall before they can creep away.  In attack to Raspberry plantations, or out door plants, it answers for one man to carry a wooden tray smeared inside with tar, and another to tap the bush, the weevils drop and are held fast; the beetles caught are scalded, and the tar renewed at every few bushes.  To get rid of grubs in infested Vine borders; the soil should be changed if possible, and the roots dressed with soot lime or other applications;  all the maggots that can be found should be picked.  Wateringthe dilute ammoniacal liquor, or with a solution of salt has been found useful.  With pot plants it is often best to shake the earth completely away and repot in clean soil.  Pointing old walls, and removing shelter will prevent such attack.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062546
modified: 2005-07-05 15:25:33.580000
country: Portugal
countryCode: PT
locality: Santarem
ScientificName: Anacardium occidentale
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Anacardiaceae
genus: Anacardium
specificEpithet: occidentale
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The Caju grows wild in profusion on only sandy campos of Santerem. The juicy astringent fruit considered anti-syphilitic - the nut is applied to ringworm etc


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062550
modified: 2003-10-29 09:25:05.977000
country: United States
countryCode: US
locality: USA
ScientificName: Ceanothus americanus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ceanothus
specificEpithet: americanus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A shrub found in dry woods from Canada to Florida. An infusion of the leaves is said to resemble ordinary tea both in colour and taste. It has been strongly recommended by many persons in the United States. One writer says - 'The tea prepared from this shrub, drawn as common tea, is certainly a good substitute for indifferent black tea. Properly dried and prepared it is aromatic and not unpleasant.' To make tea from this shrub it is recommended that the leaves should be carefully dried in the shade.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062556
country: Saint Lucia
countryCode: LC
locality: St Lucia, Castries Market
identifiedBy: Gale Rowena
ScientificName: Colubrina
scientificNameAuthorship: Rich. ex Brongn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Colubrina
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bark chipped off, boiled in water with cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Taken (diluted) every morning as a tonic Jodrell No M/33/202/79


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062586
modified: 2005-07-04 15:54:24.450000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Bombay
ScientificName: Rhamnus wightii
scientificNameAuthorship: Wight & Arn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Rhamnus
specificEpithet: wightii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The bark as met with in the shops is in irregular pieces or half quills about 1/4 inch thick; texture fibrous external surface decorticated, dull red, nearly smooth; internal suface dull red, finely striated. The transverse section shows numerous medullary rays of a darker colour than the rest of the bark. Under the microscope many dotted vessels and cells are sceen; most of the cells contain red colouring matter. There are no distinctive characters. Portions of the grey epidermis may often be found adhereing to the bark. Rugtrora is in considerable repute among the natives as a tonic and an astringent. The tree grows upon the highest hills in the northern parts of this presidency. Dr Dymock Pharm Journal.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062609
modified: 2007-01-26 14:35:31.200000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: Shanghai
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Received for determination 31.10.1911, asking if they could be considered as prunes and if so liable for duty, or dates - not liable to duty.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062610
modified: 2006-04-21 12:35:40.327000
locality: Biskra
ScientificName: Ziziphus lotus
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: lotus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Moth cocoons made from twigs of ther plants, Ferula vesceriteuses, Anatasis arctirids, Anterrhinum ramosissimum, Dierra scoparia. Schweinfurth G, Potsdamerstrasse 75a, Berlin


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062624
modified: 2006-05-10 16:16:54.177000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Shantung, Tsinanfu
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  12b Z.vulgaris, preserved fruits. A sample of 'Tang tsan tsao' or sugar coated jujubes as sold in Tsinanfu, Shantung. To prepare this confectionary large jujube fruits are steamed, then sliced lengthwise in strips, leaving the seed out andthese strips are dipped in a preparation of sugar and flour. They are served as sweetmeats at teas and with meals.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062625
modified: 2006-05-10 16:23:35.967000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Tientsin
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  11b Tientsin China. April 16th 1913 Z.vulgaris. A sample of the famous 'Mi tsao' or honey jujubes a Chinese delicacy which many people prefer to ordinary dates. This sample is of a specially good quality having very large fruits. The cost of this is in Tientsin about 20 cents American Currency per pound. FN Meyers


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062626
modified: 2006-05-10 16:07:52.723000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Tientsin
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  11 b - Tientsin China April 16th 1913 A sample of the famous Mi tsao or 'Honey Jujubes' a Chinese delicacy which many people prefer to ordinary dates. This sample is of specially good quality having very large fruits. The cost of this in Tientsin about 20 cents American currency per pound.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006263
modified: 2016-12-15 12:49:33.827000
country: Congo, Republic of the
countryCode: CG
locality: Portuguese West Africa, Congo
ScientificName: Dalbergia melanoxylon
scientificNameAuthorship: Guill. & Perr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
specificEpithet: melanoxylon
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Not identified in Herb. list.  See Hutchinson 1.4.24.  Malomboquilla tree.  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062631
modified: 2006-04-19 16:08:00.607000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Shantung, Tsinanfu
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A variety of Jujube called the 'tze lin tsao' meaning scarlet jujube. The fruits are large often the size of small hen`s eggs. They are of a round elongated shape. Skin fairly hard of a rich dark brown colour, meat firm and of sweet flavour. FM Meyer


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062632
modified: 2006-04-19 15:59:30.493000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Peking
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A variety of Jujube called Pou hong ta tsao, meaning inflated large red jujube. Fruits large of elongated shape, skin hard of brown red colour flesh of a spongy texture and not very sweet.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062633
modified: 2006-04-19 16:30:24.667000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Shantung, Tsinanfu
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A variety of Jujube, called Yuan ling tsao, meaning round jujube. Fruits medium large of round shape, skin fairly thin of mahogany brown colour, meat firm and medium sweet. Is much used in the smoked state and bears different names then.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062636
modified: 2006-04-19 15:57:38.837000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Tientsin
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A variety of jujube called Ta hong tsao, meaning large red jujube. Fruits large of marked elongated form skin medium hard of a reddish brown colour, meat firm and of medium sweet taste, seed large.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062638
modified: 2006-04-19 15:55:32.733000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Shantung, Laoling
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  10b. Laoling Shantung, China. Zizyphus vulgaris, dried fruits. A variety of Jujube called 'Wu hu tsao' or 'Ya Tsao'meaning seedless jujube. Fruits rather small of marked columnar shape skin soft of a dark colour, meat dark and raisin like taste, but less sweet. This variety is extremely interesting om account of it being seedless or at least practically so and the fruits can be eaten like sultana raisins. Label source:  Seed and Plant Introduction and Distribution.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062639
modified: 2006-04-19 16:05:41.333000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Shantung, Tsinanfu
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A variety of jujube called 'Hsiao tsao', meaning small jujube. Fruits small, of elliptical shape, skin soft, of a bright brown red colour, meat firm and quite sweet. This variety is very popular with the country people who eat them raw stewed and cooked in proso cakes.


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modified: 2006-05-04 16:43:29.483000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Tientsin
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 35608 A variety of jujube called 'Rho Hsiao', meaning meaty small jujube. Of medium size somewhat plumper in shape than the ordinary small jujube. Meat of a very firm texture and very sweet. In Tientsin considered to be one of the best market varieties.


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modified: 2006-05-08 15:49:41.067000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Peking
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A variety of jujube called 'Pou hong hsiao tsao' meaning inflated small red jujube. Fruits larger than the ordinary small jujube, skin rather soft, meat brownish sweet and of a juicy spongy nature.


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modified: 2006-05-04 16:39:37.997000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Shantung, Lasling
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  10b. Laoling Shangtung China Mar 31 1913 A variety of jujube, called Wu hu tsao or Ya tsao meaning 'Seedless jujube'. Fruits rather small, of marked columnar shape, skin soft, of a dark colour, meat dark and of a raisin like taste, but less sweet. This variety is extremely interesting on account of it being seedless or at least practically so, and the fruits can be eaten like sultana or raisins.


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modified: 2006-05-04 16:51:02.937000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Peking
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa var. spinosa
scientificNameAuthorship: (Bunge) C.K.Schneid.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
infraspecificEpithet: spinosa
taxonRank: Variety
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  FN Meyer April 19th 1913 A dry paste called Suan tsao kah, made from the fruits of the common wild jujube, which is a weed in North China. This substance is used as some sort of a sweetmeat and as an ingredient in sour sauces.


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modified: 2007-01-24 14:30:20.233000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria
ScientificName: Ziziphus spina-christi
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Desf.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: spina-christi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A variety of jujubes called Ta Hsiao Hong Tsao, meaning large red small jujube. Fruits of medium size round oblong in shape, skin soft of a shining red brown colour, meat firm and lighter in colour than with most jujubes, of a very sweet taste. This variety is a much beloved market sort in Peking. FN Meyer 36605 [55605] JHH Garden No 14-14 Am Arb


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modified: 2007-01-24 14:28:58.960000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Peking
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  [55605] JHH 36605 FN Meyer A variety of jujube called 'Ta Hsiao Hong Tsao' meaning large red small jujube. Fruits of a medium size, round oblong in shape, skin soft of a shining red brown colour, meat firm and lighter in colour than most jujubes, of a very sweet taste. This variety is a much beloved market sort in Peking.


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modified: 2006-05-04 16:45:04.353000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Tientsin
ScientificName: Ziziphus sativa
scientificNameAuthorship: Gaertn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: sativa
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  FN Meyer 13b. April 16th 1913 - A variety of jujube caled 'Hssu tsao' meaning smoked jujube. These jujubes have been sent from Shantung ; or Tientsin down South, where they have been smoked, as the right sort of wood for this operation does not seem to exist in North China. These smoked jujubes seem to hold special favour with the Southern Chinese.


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modified: 2006-05-04 17:00:17.433000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Peking
ScientificName: Ziziphus vulgaris var. spinosa
scientificNameAuthorship: Bunge
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: vulgaris
infraspecificEpithet: spinosa
taxonRank: VARIETY
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  14b - April 19th 1913 A dry fruit paste called 'Suan tsao kah' made from the fruits of the common wild jujube, which is a weed in North China. This substance is used as some sort of a sweetmeat and as an ingredient in sour sauces.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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modified: 2006-04-20 16:08:28.133000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Peking
ScientificName: Ziziphus
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A variety of jujube called 'Pou hong ta tsao' meaning inflated large red jujube. Fruits of elongated shape, skin hard of brown-red colour, flesh of a spongy texture and not very sweet.


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modified: 2006-04-21 09:59:03.663000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Ranchi
ScientificName: Ziziphus
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The Director Indian Lac Research Institute Namkum, Ranchi India, recd July 1931 on Zizyphus ?. These two pieces were obtained from specimens in experimental house and Jodrell Lab, where Mr Stenning had plants on which the lac insect were being raised. JHH


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modified: 2006-04-18 15:07:34.723000
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The curve at the thick end of the stick enables one to kill a snake much easier than is possible with a straight stick.


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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062689
modified: 2006-05-04 15:19:31.687000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Rhamnus wightii
scientificNameAuthorship: Wight & Arn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Rhamnus
specificEpithet: wightii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The bark as met with in the shops is in irregular pieces or half quills about 1/4 inch thick, texture fibrous; external surface decorticated, dull red, nearly smooth; internal surface, faintly striated. A transverse section shows numerous waved medullary rays of a darker colour than the rest of the bark, under the microscope many dotted vessels and cells are seen; most of the cells contain red colouring matter. There are no distinctive characters. Portions of the grey epidermis may often be found adheering to the bark. Rugtrora is in considerable repute among the natives as a tonic and astringent. The tree grows upon the highest hills in the northern parts of this presidency. Dr Dymock.


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modified: 2016-04-20 11:49:48.933000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil
ScientificName: Discaria
scientificNameAuthorship: Hook.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Discaria
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Natives state that people using it experience a sensation of tremendous vigour and well being.  According to a local laboratory this root possesses great reconstitutional powers, chiefly as regards the brain, and with direct action also on the spinal column.  2 or 3 roots should be placed in a litre of pinga (strong alcoholic native drink from cane juice) and allowed to stand until it takes on the colour of port wine, when it is ready for use.  A wine glass full is taken before lunch and dinner.  After about ten days one begins to feel the effects.  I know an old gent of 72 who, after trying it was able to resume marital relations, and as I have said, several friends who have tried it have been well satisfied with its properties.  The bark of this root contains a very large amount of cluster crystals of Ca O? The bark of D longispina contains much starch and only scattered clusters of Ca Ox.  The general structure of the 2 roots is similar.  TEW.  The root is apparently from a sp of Discaria, family Rhamnaceae.  This sp is uncertain, but it is near D longispina.  From CW Foster, Sao Paulo Railway Co, Estacao do Luz, Sao Paulo 5/2/37. Through Dr Burn and Sir W Wilcox.


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ScientificName: Rhamnus californica
scientificNameAuthorship: Eschsch.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Rhamnus
specificEpithet: californica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See Report on R californica in Museum Report 1907 - 10, by Dr Jowett. I am not sure if this is californica


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ScientificName: Rhamnus purshiana
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Rhamnus
specificEpithet: purshiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Also three packets of moss Madotheca mavicularis Loh., Hypnum oreganum Sull., and Neckera douglasii Hook.


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modified: 2006-04-19 15:41:51.203000
ScientificName: Ziziphus jujuba
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: jujuba
occurrenceRemarks:
Note source:   Other label states the fruits are Cornus officinale Label source:  Three tins, 1094 Shan chu yii Z. jujuba Singapore, 1094 Shan chu yii, FA Smith Cornus officinale, 1094 Shan chu yii, FA Smith Cornus officinale, (Zizyphus is crossed out)


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modified: 2006-04-19 15:27:06.693000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
ScientificName: Rhamnus chlorophora
scientificNameAuthorship: Decne.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Rhamnus
specificEpithet: chlorophora
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Iten includes bundle of stems and vial of green dye extract - Pharm Journ Vol XVI p.213 Also several packets of seeds :- Graines du Rhamnus vison du R.tinctorius. From M Rondol 22.v.1857, Mr R has since told me this is Richlorophorus decaisne DH. Seeds of Rhamnus chlorophorus Decaisne from a specimen given by Mr Fortune to Mr Hooker Herb at Kew but with no name. Vert de Chine, 1853 from M Rondot 22.v.1857 Rhamnus utilis Decaisne from M Rondot Baies de Hong-pi-chou Green Dye from China Oct1856 Green dye extract seeds of Rhamnus from M Rondot 22.v.1857 Opuscular source:  Four letter, two in French Paris dated 27 Feb 1857 to D Hanbury from Propagation de la Foi, letter written in French Note sur la fabrrication du Lokao. D`apres les Procedes suivis a aze (a Chines au Sud de Kia-hin-fou) Dans le Tche-Kiang [Note sur une Couleur verte comme en Chine sous le nom de Lo-Kao - several pages long description in French Note - Stems of the tree producing the green dye. The decoction of the wood and juice of the seeds of this the cultivated kind. Mixed with the ditto from the wild kind gives the green dye. Also copy from the Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India Calcutta 1855 Vol IX part 1 - Gives a description of the Chinese Indigo plant communicated by Robert Fortune Esq.


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modified: 2012-06-07 12:45:45.650000
ScientificName: Rhamnus purshiana
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Rhamnus
specificEpithet: purshiana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Also samples of moss and a liverwort taken from the bark, Brachythecium collinum identified by Mr W Sherrin BM (Nat Hist), Madotheca cf platyphylla ? larger foliaeous liverwort  identified by above, small foliaceous liverwort


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country: YU
countryCode: YU
locality: Yugoslavia
ScientificName: Rhamnus alpina subsp. fallax
scientificNameAuthorship: (Boiss.) Maire & Petitm.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Rhamnus
specificEpithet: alpina
infraspecificEpithet: fallax
taxonRank: Subspecies
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Presented by Dr Fairbrain from the London Dock in bales called R.fallax from Yugoslavia


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modified: 2024-11-27 11:01:05.303000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India
ScientificName: Ziziphus
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  History, Uses etc - This is the jujube of Arabic and Persian works on materia medica and is not produced in India, but is largely imported in a dry state both from the Persian Gulf and China. Meer Mahomed Hussain describes it as the fruitof a well known tree of nearly the same size as the Kunar (Z.jujuba) and olive; but having leaves a little thicker and longer than those of the kunar, with one downy side. The bark, wood, and fruit of the tree are red. The best fruit comes from Jurjan, China, and Nepal. It should be sweet and moderately astringent about the size of a dried date, and with a small stone. He gives a long account of the medicinally values of the jujube, from which we gather that he regards it as a supperative, expectorant, andpurifier of the blood ; its uses would appear to be in many respects similar to those of dried prunes with us. The bark of the tree is used to clean wounds and sores, the gum in certain affections of the eyes, and the leaves when chewed are said to  destroy the power of the tongue to appreciate the taste of rather disagreeable medicines. In Western India we have several cultivated varieties of jujuba which afford edible fruit, as well as a wild variety. None of these are considered medicinal but their bark is powerfully astringent, and a kind of lac known as Bhooree lac is found upon the branches. The fruit of the wild kind is dried and powdered. This powder is called in Hindu Ber-choonee. According to Ainslie the root is prescribed in decoction by the Vytians in conjunction with warm seeds, as a drink in certain cases of fever. The white pear shaped fruit are Z.rugosa (toorum Bom.) is eaten by the natives. The fruit of Z.xylopyra (Gootee, Bom) is used by shoe makers for blacking leather and making blacking.


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modified: 2006-05-04 14:44:20.910000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China, Hung Chow?
ScientificName: Ziziphus jujuba
scientificNameAuthorship: Mill.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Rhamnaceae
genus: Ziziphus
specificEpithet: jujuba
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The fruit of Zizyphus jujuba from Hungchow, the district in China that produces the best green tea. The fruit is called Meih tsau and is excellent for eating. Illegible words something about a kind of jujube that has fruits the size of a hens egg! See note!. Opuscular source:  Letter from D Hanbury to Mr Holmes. Queen Annes Mansion, Westminster 29 May 1901. Dear Mr Holmes, Thankyou very much for the box of curious fruits and seeds safely to hand. These will greatly rejoice the heart of my friend. The striated surface of the jujubes is produced by the Chinese who make incisions with a knife and then plunge the fruits into honey after which it is dried, hence the name Meih (honey) tsau (jujube). I have no experience of the soporific effect of these kernels and doubt it. I grow the zizyphus at Mortola but it is very inferior to this Chinese variety and scarcely worth eating. I doubt our climate in England being hot enough in summer to mature the chinese fruit. Yours sincerely, Hanbury.


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modified: 2016-12-15 12:50:11.940000
country: BU
countryCode: BU
locality: Burma
ScientificName: Dalbergia nigrescens
scientificNameAuthorship: Kurz
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
specificEpithet: nigrescens
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Frequent in dry forests of Upper Burma.  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062747
modified: 2006-05-10 15:07:25.913000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa, Natal, Maritzburg
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  10. Arabian Tea Khat, this is a shrubby plant extensively cultivated in the interior of Arabia, mostly in gardens along with coffee. To prepare the tea for trade purposes amongst themselves, the Arabs gather the twigs with the leaves attached and carefully dry them. They are made up into closely pressed bundles of different sizes, the quality being known by the form and size of the bundles. The best are about a foot or 15 inches long and three inches wide. About 40 slender twigs compose these bundles, and these are sent into Aden from the place of cultivation in the interior of Arabia to the extent of about 330 camel loads per year. The use of this tea in Arabia is said to antidate that of coffee, which was early known in that country. Besides the use of the leaves in the preparation of the beverage, the Arabs also chew them both in the fresh and dried states, the effect of which is to increase the flow of hilarity and mirth, and to produce extreme wakefulness and watchfulness, so that a man may fulfill the duties of sentry all night without a feeling of drowsiness. The plant is considered by the Arabs as an antidote to the plague, and they also believe that infection cannot be contracted if a twig is carried about the person. John R Jackson.


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country: Yemen
countryCode: YE
locality: Yemen, Sabar
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Of inferior quality. 5. Kaat sabari Jadah inferior to No. 3 the words Jadah meaning inferior.


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modified: 2006-04-19 15:45:33.597000
locality: Maktari
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  7. Kaat Makr=tari Aashab so called as coming from the Maktari. It is a long variety Aashtab meaning long.


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modified: 2006-04-19 15:53:03.520000
locality: Maktari
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  9. Kaat Maktari Zoorab of the same kind as no. 7 but a smaller variety, Zoorab meaning small.


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modified: 2007-08-31 14:27:19.647000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: Canada, Ontario
ScientificName: Celastrus scandens
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Celastraceae
genus: Celastrus
specificEpithet: scandens
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Letter accompanying fibres as described below, dated 12.1.1924, from Fugler 1.  To the Ministry of Agric, England, Sir, the enclosed fibre is from a plant growing wild on this continent from Quebec to Florida in the east as far west as Montana.  It is free from plant diseases or attack by insects and surviving the most rigorous winter.  The coloured fibre is to show it take the dyes.  The green fibre and cord picked Jan 1923. White fibre and small cord with wood attached was gathered four years ago.  Five years ago I took the fibre to the Forestry Dept here and was informed it was an old country plant; the For Dept have been growing it for five years and proved it can be propagated from cuttings and is of rapid growth and is not particular as to soil.  If you are interested in this further information will be gladly given by yours respectfully, F Fugler.   The experimental growing has been done under the supervision of Prof. Thompson of the Forestry Dept Ontario.  Letter dated Windsor,Ontario Canada, April 3rd, 1924, to the Secretary, Min of Agric. 2.  Sir In answer to yours of the 17th March re fibre plant the name is C scandens or Climbing Bittersweet.  I have enclosed further samples with a note to each and hope it will help in theinvestigation; it is the inner bark of the plant; there are several species not all of which are fibrous.  I shall be glad to help in its development.  Verified by Mr Boodle as C scandens - see note attached Director asked Ministry for specimens for Museum - received 8.v.24. Letters 85, 1924, xv p 179. and 121, 1924, xv p 194. Note from Lab 1.2.24.  The specimen sent as possibly a disease  is a Coccus insect together with the white cottony fluff produced by the insect.  Some pathogenic fungus have been recorded as growing on C scandens. Label source:  Notes attached to each specimen in sample as below  a. This was exposed to the weather for some seasons, and was frayed by nature - observe the spiral wood? b.  Twigs of climbing bitter sweet. Rope made from  natural frayed fibre - Dec 1918. d.  Small bundle of fibre from root and branch. e.  Small string from twig - observe proportion of pith to wood - picked Jan 1924. f.  The only thing I ever noticed on the plant that might be a disease but Professor Thompson of the Forestry Dept of Ontario told me it was Compary? culture.  This is also fibrous.  Taken from the plant in 1918.


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modified: 2006-04-20 15:31:15.663000
ScientificName: Euonymus europaeus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Celastraceae
genus: Euonymus
specificEpithet: europaeus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 77,1926, xvi p191. 377 Sandycombe Rd, Kew, Surrey, April 11, 1926, Dear Mr Dallimore, Here are two more characteristic pieces of clock makers Peg Wood, Yours sincerely J Batten.


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modified: 2006-04-20 15:28:54.370000
identifiedBy: Boodle LA
ScientificName: Euonymus europaeus
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Celastraceae
genus: Euonymus
specificEpithet: europaeus
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 123, 1922, xiv p223.  From the Continent, Barrett & Spencer, Uxbridge Rd, W12.  The wood has been identified as E europaeus L.  The specimens are not twigs with the bark stripped off, but cylindrical pieces of wood cut so as not to include the pith. LaB 25.3.22.


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modified: 2006-05-09 15:18:39.883000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: Cochin China
ScientificName: Kokoona zeylanica
scientificNameAuthorship: Thwaites
kingdom: Plantae
family: Celastraceae
genus: Kokoona
specificEpithet: zeylanica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Resinous slabs consist apparently of the cork of some tree.  There is a resinous substance in the cavities of the cork cells.  This is a rare occurrence, and appears only to have been recorded in sps of Adesmia and Fabiana.  In Sarcocaulon, a waxy substance is present.


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062793
modified: 2007-05-18 16:35:56.553000
locality: South America
ScientificName: Maytenus chilensis
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Celastraceae
genus: Maytenus
specificEpithet: chilensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  M64.29.  Sample of seed.  Appearing to be those of a sp of Maytenus, probably chilensis DC.  For info as to the chemical nature and poss value of the oil contained in the seeds, they should be referred to a chemist.  LaB 24.1.29.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062800
modified: 2011-05-27 10:30:29.370000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China?
ScientificName: Euonymus maackii
scientificNameAuthorship: Rupr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Celastraceae
genus: Euonymus
specificEpithet: maackii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Euonymus sieboldianus Blume - A Chinese tree, where the wood, which is known as Pai cha is used for carving and engraving.  Attention was first drawn to this wood by Mr Jean Von Volxem, in the Gardeners Chronicle for April 20th 1878.  In  the Kew report for 1878, p 41,  the following extract of a letter from Mr M Cooper, Her Majesty's Consul at Ningpo, is given 'the wood is universal used for book blocks, wood engravings, seals, etc, is that the pear tree, of which large quantities are grown in Shangtung and Shanxsie especially.  Pai cha is sometimes used as indifferent substitute.  Pai cha is a very fine white wood of fine fibre, without apparent grains, and cuts easily; is well suited for carved frames, cabinets caskets etc, for which large  quantities are manufactured here for export.  The tree itself resembles some  that the Stillingia, but has a rougher bark, larger and thinner leaves, which are serrated at the edges, more delicate twigs and is deciduous.'  In 1879 a block of this woodwas received at Kew Museum, form Mr Cooper, a sp of which was submitted to Mr Robson J Scott of Whitefriars Street, to whom I am much indebted for reports on various occasions and upon this wood he reported as follows 'the most striking quality I have observed  in this wood is its capacity for retaining water and the facility with which it surrenders it. This section (one prepared and sent to the Museum) which represents one tenth of the original piece, weighed 3lb 4.5 oz.  At the end of 21 days it had lost 1lb 6 3/4 oz in an unheated chamber.  At the end of another 14 days, in a much elevated temperature,  it only lost 1/4oz.  In its present state of reduced bulk its weight is 1lb 10 oz.  It is not at all likely to supersede box, but it may be fit for coarser work than that for which box is necessary'. Later on namely, in the Kew Report for 1880, p.51, Mr RD Keene an engraver, to whom Mr Scott submitted specimens of the wood for trial, writes ' I like the wood very much, and prefer it to box in some instances;  it is freer to work and consequently quicker, and its being uniform in colour and quality is a great advantage; we often have great difficult in box in having to work from a hard piece into a soft. I think it very useful wood, especially for solid bold  work. I question if you could get so extreme a fine black line as on box, but I am sure there would be a large demand for it at a moderate price.' Refering to this letter, Mr Scott remarks that the writer does not intend it to be understood that  Pai`cha is qualified to supersede box but for inferior subjects for which coarse brittle box is used. Mr Scott further says that of the woods he has tried he prefers pear and hawthorn to Pai`chi.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062835
modified: 2004-06-24 11:47:12.303000
country: China
countryCode: CN
locality: China
identifiedBy: Tang CZ
ScientificName: Ilex asprella
scientificNameAuthorship: Champ. ex Benth.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
genus: Ilex
specificEpithet: asprella
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This essence of Medical Tea is prepared through modern scientific process. The taste, smell and effectiveness are all the same as medical tea leaves, mild in nature and convenient in use. Indication; Influenza, cold, fever, dyspepsia, constipation and bad odour breath. Direction: To be taken with boiling water, one pkt is to be made one bowl of tea, stir a little before drink. Prescription see packet.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062836
modified: 2005-07-04 16:25:33.660000
country: United Kingdom
countryCode: GB
locality: Great Britain, RBG Kew
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Hort Kew 1852 Native of Florida A handsome North American shrub, extending along the sea-coast from Carolina to Florida. The use of this plant is thus described :- 'The leaves are used by the Indians to make their black drink so much in use amongst them, not only as a medicine but as a drink of etiquette in their councils when matters of consequence are to be transacted. At a certain time of the year the Indians come down in droves from a distance of some hundred miles to the coast for theleaves of this tree, which is not known to grow at any considerable distance from the sea-shore. They make a fire on the ground, and, putting a great kettle of water on it. they throw in a large quanity of these leaves and seating themselves round thefire, from a bowl that holds a pint they begin drinking large draughts, which in a very short time occasions them to vomit easily and freely ; thus they continue drinking and vomiting for the space of two or three days, until they sufficiently cleansed themselves, and then, every one taking a bundle of the branches to carry away with him, they all return to their habitations.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062842
modified: 2005-05-03 16:41:52.910000
country: Chile
countryCode: CL
locality: Valparaiso
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A large bush or small tree native of Paraguay. The tea is made both from wild and cultivated plants, and various qualities according to the localities where it is grown or prepared; that of Paraguay is said to be the most bitter and aromatic of all, and consequently the most esteemed. The mode of gathering and drying the leaves is different from that practised in India and China with ordinary tea. A kind of expedition is formed, consisting of 40 to 50 persons, mounted on mules, and having with them a reserve stock of mules and bullocks. On reaching a locality where the trees are abundant often two hundred miles from the place of starting, a small space of ground is cleared, and the soil beaten down with heavy mallets until it is quite hardand level. At the four corners of this space sticks or posts are driven into the ground, and upon these a sort of net, made of strips of hide is stretched; beneath this a fire is lighted and the boughs of the plant with the leaves upon as they are brought from the forest are placed on the net where they are throughly dried - in fact almost scorched but not burnt. These scorched leaves and the small twigs are then reduced to a fine powder in a rude wooden mill, after which they are weighed and put into packages for export. Half a bullocks hide is used to form a kind of sack to hold the tea, being first sewn up at the sides. The tea is then rammed in until the sack is quite full, the mouth is sewn up, and the package, which usually weighs from 200 to 250 pounds is left to dry in the sun for a few days during which time it becomes as hard as a stone. The tea is sometimes packed in the skins of other animals and for retail purposes is put up into small paper packets or bags. The bulk of Paraguay tea consistsof powdered leaves and twigs some of the kinds are composed solely of the roasted unbroken leaves. Enormous quanities of this tea is consumed in South America - 27000000 pounds being used in the Argentine Rep in 1 year. In the rural districts as well as in the smaller towns, Yerba as it is called, is considered a regular form of diet, and not like tea in Britain a mere beverage. One form of drinking Yerba is to mix sugar with the decoction until a thick syrup is produced; usual way however, is to place asmall quantity of the tea in a cup, pour hot water upon it, and when it cools suck the infusion through tube called a bombilla. The effects of this tea upon the system are similar to that of Chinese tea, though the flavour which is bitter and herby is not agreeable to the English palate.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062845
modified: 2005-08-08 12:46:22.937000
locality: South America
ScientificName: Ilex paraguariensis
scientificNameAuthorship: A.St.-Hil.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
genus: Ilex
specificEpithet: paraguariensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 600, 1922, xv p.21 Specimen from David Neil Lennox, 25 Robertson Street, Greenock Scotland, sent under the name Herrea. The leaves and twigs, of which the sample consists, apparently belong to a species of Ilex. The material agrees with a sample of Paraguay tea or Mate in the Kew Museumm, and is assumed to be I.paraguensis or one of the other South American species of Ilex used as Mate. LAB 23.11.22


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062849
country: Paraguay
countryCode: PY
locality: Paraguay
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The leaves are prepared for use by first slightly scorching in the flame of a fire and then roasting and coarsely pulverising them.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062850
modified: 2007-05-22 18:08:55.207000
locality: South America
ScientificName: Ilex
scientificNameAuthorship: Tourn. ex L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
genus: Ilex
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The infusion is extensively consumed in South America as tea; it is sucked through a tube called a bombilla. It contains theine, and possesses qualities similar to those of Chinese tea.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062853
modified: 2005-07-28 17:53:51.313000
ScientificName: Ilex paraguayensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Hook.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
genus: Ilex
specificEpithet: paraguayensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Small leaved variety Ilex paraguayensis var (senonia) or (numala) Cyprus amani From LEM Co Le-V Being sent to Nyasaland, Kenya, Australia, N Rhodesia, Queensland and Union of S Africa


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062862
modified: 2006-04-10 13:43:22.380000
ScientificName: Aquifoliaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Bercht. & J.Presl
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mate cup mounted in silver and silver tube for imbibing Paraguay Tea. Tube for drinking Mate such as is used by people of the lower class. W. Granger.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062863
modified: 2019-07-02 10:37:42.857000
country: Argentina
countryCode: AR
locality: Argentina
ScientificName: Ilex paraguariensis
scientificNameAuthorship: A.St.-Hil.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
genus: Ilex
specificEpithet: paraguariensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Yerba Mate Misionera. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062866
modified: 2019-07-23 10:31:50.010000
ScientificName: Ilex quercifolia
scientificNameAuthorship: Meerb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
genus: Ilex
specificEpithet: quercifolia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Prepared for engraving and an engraved block of the same.  Mr Scott reports upon it as indifferent in quality for engraving. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition in Museum no.1, May 1998 to May 2016


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062867
modified: 2019-07-02 10:35:57.103000
ScientificName: Aquifoliaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Bercht. & J.Presl
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Bombillas or tubes through which the infusion of Paraguay tea is sucked. J. T. Von Allen, The Hon. Fox Strangways, and J Whiffin Esqr.? Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062873
modified: 2019-07-02 10:36:49.777000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Curitiba
ScientificName: Ilex
scientificNameAuthorship: Tourn. ex L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Aquifoliaceae
genus: Ilex
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Packet of Tea. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062880
modified: 2004-07-20 12:27:57.853000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Rio Negro
identifiedBy: N Y S
ScientificName: Humirianthera rupestris
scientificNameAuthorship: Ducke
kingdom: Plantae
family: Icacinaceae
genus: Humirianthera
specificEpithet: rupestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Culture of Mandiocca and preparation of farinha on the Rio Negro.  Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes,p 184.: The liquid strained from the tipiti [mandiocca strainer] deposits a very pure starchcalled tapioca which is granulated in the same way as farinha (in the oven).  But in farinha de agua nearly all the tapioca remains in combination with the farinha, this is the main cause of the superior quality of the latter.  Farinha seca is made entirely of grated mandiocca and deposits a great deal of tapioca; indeed when it is derived to extract as much as possible of the latter, the dough is repeatedly washed and strained.  This is principally seen among the Uaupe Indians whose main intake of food is tapioca cake (called curadá) the dough which remains after all the lavations has very little water? in it but the Uaupes make of it a tasteless discoloured farinha of which they sell thousands of baskets to the 'brancos' and is the chief food of the slaves on the Rio Negro and adjacent parts of the Amazon.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062881
modified: 2004-07-20 12:28:30.387000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Barra de Rio Negro
identifiedBy: Sandwith NY
ScientificName: Humirianthera rupestris
scientificNameAuthorship: Ducke
kingdom: Plantae
family: Icacinaceae
genus: Humirianthera
specificEpithet: rupestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Culture of Mandiocca and preparation of farinha on the Rio Negro.  Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes,p 184.:  Two sorts of farinha are in use 'farinha secca' and 'farinha de agua' the former issaid to be almost exclusively used on the coast of Brazil, but on the Rio Negro the latter is more common and it is preferable to the other because it contains nearly all the tapioca (starch) in combination with the other nutritious constituents of the mandiocca root.  It is prepared in this way.  The roots are put under water in a running stream either in an old Montana trunk or in baskets for the space of three days.  A peculiar and most agreeable odour is evident during this process, which indicates the vicinity of coca? To those who travel near; but neither this odour nor the soluble matter extracted from the roots by the running water appears to possess deleterious properties at least when obviously diluted with air or water, for nowhere do small fish congregate more than in the neighbourhood of the immersed mandiocca roots.  The latter when taken out of water has become so soft that they are easily broken up by hand, the skin readily separates and is thrown away and a small quantity of the fresh root grated is added to the dough to give it consistency.  The dough called Ibehi by the Barre Indians is then strained by putting it into a long bag of plaited strips of Waruma, with a loop at each end the lower loop being passed over the end, the lower loop being passed over the end of a fixed tough pole and the upper over the pint of another pole serving as a lever by means of which it is stretched out to double its original length and all the liquid parts of the dough run into the interices? and it is received into a vessel placed beneath.  This bag is called 'Tipiti' in Brazil, 'Sebucan' in Venezuela (where it is often made of the hair of a cow's tail).  The dough is next put into a large wooden trough (often an old cane broken up by hand and passed through a coarse sieve, which separates fro it he fibres of the root and it is now ready for baking.  The oven ( 'Yapona'- Brazil and 'Bandari' in Venezuela is a large flat circular clay dish 10 ft or more across, with a raised rim and is supported on all sides by a mud wall.  On one dish of which is an orifice, is left for introducing fire wood; or it is merely three supports of the same mud masonary so that it resembles a three legged stool.  The oven being heated and covered( not thickly) with dough; a woman watches it continually turns it over and stirs it about, using a flat wooden shovel called a 'taruba', so that it may adhere only in small grains which when completely baked constitutes farinha or cassava.  The farinha of the Rio Negro thus made is ofa fine golden colour and eaten as crisps or biscuits.  If the dough be spread thinly over the oven and laid even with the 'taruba', but not disturbed until it is baked, a large cake is formed called beijié which is pleasant eating when eaten warm but soonbecoming stale.  In Venezuela they call these cakes cajan and use them almost exclusively.  Of drinks made from mandiocca the simplest is Itribé which is merely farinha mixed with water when it speedily swells out to twice its original size and in drinking it, in a small cuya, a bit of stick or the finger is used to stir it about. 


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062882
modified: 2004-07-20 12:28:12.210000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Barra de Rio Negro
identifiedBy: Sandwith NY
ScientificName: Humirianthera rupestris
scientificNameAuthorship: Ducke
kingdom: Plantae
family: Icacinaceae
genus: Humirianthera
specificEpithet: rupestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Specimen presumably received from R Spruce 1851 (see entry 233.1851) Herbarium specimens corresponding with this 'Bauna' root identified by N.Y. Sandwith as Humirianthera rupestris Ducke Feb. 1956. B.J Y.  Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Culture of Mandiocca and preparation of farinha on the Rio Negro.  Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes,p 184.: Two sorts of farinha are in use 'farinha secca' and 'farinha de agua' the former is said to be almost exclusively used on the coast of Brazil, but on the Rio Negro the latter is more common and it is preferable to the other because it contains nearly all the tapioca (starch) in combination with the other nutritious constituents of the mandiocca root.  It is prepared inthis way.  The roots are put under water in a running stream either in an old montana trunk or in baskets for the space of three days.  A peculiar and most agreeable odour is evident during this process, which indicates the vicinity of coca? to those whotravel near; but neither this odour nor the soluble matter extracted from the roots by the running water appears to possess deleterious properties at least when obviously diluted with air or water, for nowhere do small fish congregate more than in the neighbourhood of the immersed mandiocca roots.  The latter when taken out of water has become so soft that they are easily broken up by hand, the skin readily separates and is thrown away and a small quantity of the fresh root grated is added to the dough to give it consistency.  The dough called Ibehi by the Barre Indians is then strained by putting it into a long bag of plaited strips of Waruma, with a loop at each end , the lower loop being passed over the end of a fixed tough pole and the upper over thepoint of another pole serving as a lever by means of which it is stretched out to double its original length and all the liquid parts of the dough run into the interices? and it is received into a vessel placed beneath.  This bag is called 'Tipiti' in Brazil, 'Sebucan' in Venezuela (where it is often made of the hair of a cow's tail).  The dough is next put into a large wooden trough (often an old cane broken up by hand and passed through a coarse sieve, which separates from it the fibres of the root andit is now ready for baking.  The oven ( 'Yapona'- Brazil and 'Bandari' in Venezuela is a large flat circular clay dish 10 ft or more across, with a raised rim and is supported on all sides by a mud wall.  On one dish of which is an orifice, is left for introducing fire wood; or it is merely three supports of the same mud masonary so that it resembles a three legged stool.  The oven being heated and covered (not thickly) with dough; a woman watches it continually turns it over and stirs it about, using a flatwooden shovel called a 'taruba', so that it may adhere only in small grains which when completely baked constitutes farinha or cassava.  The farinha of the Rio Negro thus made is of a fine golden colour and eaten as crisps or biscuits.  If the dough be spread thinly over the oven and laid even with the 'taruba', but not disturbed until it is baked, a large cake is formed called beijié which is pleasant eating when eaten warm but soon becoming stale.  In Venezuela they call these cakes cajan and use them almost exclusively.  Of drinks made from mandiocca the simplest is Itribé which is merely farinha mixed with water when it speedily swells out to twice its original size and in drinking it, in a small cuya, a bit of stick or the finger is used to stir itabout.  Pajinaru or mandiocca beer is prepared as follows.  Large thick pieces of grated mandiocca are mashed with water then laid in a heap with a layer of plantain or larger leaves between each for about two days, when they begin to ferment and it only remains to break them up by hand and mix sufficient quantity of water.  This drink is very intoxicating when drunk in large quantities 


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062883
modified: 2004-05-13 17:26:12.803000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
ScientificName: Humirianthera rupestris
scientificNameAuthorship: Ducke
kingdom: Plantae
family: Icacinaceae
genus: Humirianthera
specificEpithet: rupestris
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  1899??  Source: Spruce, R. (1855) Culture of Mandiocca and preparation of farinha on the Rio Negro.  Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic Uses. (pp31-61) and miscellaneous notes,p 184.:  Two sorts of farinha are in use 'farinha secca' and 'farinha de agua' the former is said to be almost exclusively used on the coast of Brazil, but on the Rio Negro the latter is more common and it is preferable to the other because it contains nearly all the tapioca (starch) in combination with the other nutritious constituents of the mandiocca root.  It is prepared in this way.  The roots are put under water in a running stream either in an old Montana trunk or in baskets for the space of three days.  A peculiar and most agreeable odour is evident during this process, which indicates the vicinity of coca? to those who travel near; but neither this odour nor the soluble matter extracted from the roots by the running water appears to possess deleterious properties at least when obviously diluted with air or water, for nowhere do small fish congregate more than in the neighbourhood of the immersed mandiocca roots.  The latter when taken out of water has become so soft that they are easily broken up by hand, the skin readily separates and is thrown away and a smallquantity of the fresh root grated is added to the dough to give it consistency.  The dough called Ibehi by the Barre Indians is then strained by putting it into a long bag of plaited strips of Waruma, with a loop at each end the lower loop being passed over the end, the lower loop being passed over the end of a fixed tough pole and the upper over the pint of another pole serving as a lever by means of which it is stretched out to double its original length and all the liquid parts of the dough run into the interices? and it is received into a vessel placed beneath.  This bag is called 'Tipiti' in Brazil, 'Sebucan' in Venezuela (where it is often made of the hair of a cow's tail).  The dough is next put into a large wooden trough (often an old cane) brokenup by hand and passed through a coarse sieve, which separates fro it he fibres of the root and it is now ready for baking.  The oven ('Yapona'- Brazil and 'Bandari' in Venezuela) is a large flat circular clay dish 10 ft or more across, with a raised rim and is supported on all sides by a mud wall.  On one dish of which is an orifice, is left for introducing fire wood; or it is merely three supports of the same mud masonary so that it resembles a three legged stool.  The oven being heated and covered (notthickly) with dough; a woman watches it continually turns it over and stirs it about, using a flat wooden shovel called a 'taruba', so that it may adhere only in small grains which when completely baked constitutes farinha or cassava.  The farinha of theRio Negro thus made is of a fine golden colour and eaten as crisps or biscuits.  If the dough be spread thinly over the oven and laid even with the 'taruba', but not disturbed until it is baked, a large cake is formed called beijié which is pleasant eating when eaten warm but soon becoming stale.  In Venezuela they call these cakes cajan and use them almost exclusively.  Of drinks made from mandiocca the simplest is Itribé which is merely farinha mixed with water when it speedily swells out to twice its original size and in drinking it, in a small cuya, a bit of stick of the finger is used to stir it about.  Pajinaru or mandiocca beer is prepared as follows.  Large thick pieces of grated mandiocca are mashed with water then laid in a heap with a layer o fplantain or larger leaves between each for about two days, when they begin to ferment and it only remains to break them up by hand and mix sufficient quantity of water.  This drink is very intoxicating when drunk in large quantities. 


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006290
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Oudh, Kheri
ScientificName: Dalbergia sissoo
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb. ex DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
specificEpithet: sissoo
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  One of the most useful of Indian timbers, being very durable and not liable to warp or split.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062922
modified: 2006-11-06 16:30:07.787000
locality: Straits Settlements
ScientificName: Scorodocarpus borneensis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Baill.) Becc.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Olacaceae
genus: Scorodocarpus
specificEpithet: borneensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Several tanning barks are exhibited under the names of Kulit kayu, poko klat, poko kulim (S borneensis), poko paga anak, poko samak serai, bakau (Ruizophora conjugata), and poko samak palut.  Most of these barks are of a dark colour; the  last is considered the best tanning bark in the country.  Several of them are already under examination and will probably be reported on in these pages before the close of the Exhibition.  The term kulit, ie bark, forms part of the name given in Europe tothe aromatic bark of Cinnamomum kulilaqan, ie Kulit Lawan.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062936
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil, Manaos
ScientificName: Curupira tefeensis
scientificNameAuthorship: G.A.Black
kingdom: Plantae
family: Olacaceae
genus: Curupira
specificEpithet: tefeensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  With letter of 7.1.27, O/1863 Letter no 6134/26 one seed marked O/1863. JHH No 6134/26 Imp Inst?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062940
modified: 2006-11-07 13:28:39.290000
country: Congo, Republic of the
countryCode: CG
locality: French Congo
ScientificName: Heisteria
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Polygalaceae
genus: Heisteria
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 223,1916: x p.188 Spec rec'd from Herb 8.vi.16 JHH Stated to be from the French Congo Note with illustration of the fruit, f113, Graine de Boleko in Bull Agric Congo Relge II 1911 pp 203-206 J Chaesseus ongokea gore ? Ongokea gore Pierre = O.klainelana (= Aptandra gore) JHH Oct 28 1916


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062942
modified: 2007-06-15 12:01:20.523000
country: Congo, Republic of the
countryCode: CG
locality: Congo Region
ScientificName: Plantae
kingdom: Plantae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 586 1924 : xvi p.65, Dec 1924, Boleko Nuts for paper in Boleko Nuts see Bull Agric Congo Belge II 1911 pp. 203-206 with analysis and illustration of nuts (copy of reply to letter in Oil Cover) JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062945
modified: 2005-04-29 15:23:54.370000
country: Congo, Republic of the
countryCode: CG
locality: Congo
identifiedBy: Hutchinson J
ScientificName: Heisteria
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Polygalaceae
genus: Heisteria
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter 203, 1918 : xii p.95 Dated 7th 1918 Mr Edwards, acknowledge the receipt of his letter of the 3rd inst. and in reply to say that the N`Kamba nuts, believed to come from the French Congo, submitted for identification appear to be the seeds of a species of Heisteria. They belong to the same order (Olacineae) as the 'Graines de Boloko' of which some particulars are given in the 'Bulletin Agricole de Congo Belge', June 1911 pp.203 - 206.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062946
modified: 2006-11-07 13:25:04.563000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa
ScientificName: Ximenia americana
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Olacaceae
genus: Ximenia
specificEpithet: americana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Note - Mr Holland, from a comparison with the named kernels it seems possible that the 'Morotologa' kernels might be a species of Ximenia. I cannot say anything more definite than that, at any rate not without giving more time than I have had, to the comparison. LAB 15.11.29 Mr S Blackbeard - Serowe, Morotologa, this shrub is grown in the sand belts and is used instead of fat to grey or soften skins, Albany Museum Grahamstown.  RH Dyer


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062948
modified: 2006-11-07 13:25:58.707000
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria, Sapoda
ScientificName: Strombosia pustulata
scientificNameAuthorship: Oliv.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Olacaceae
genus: Strombosia
specificEpithet: pustulata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Seed examined at Imperial Inst (March-April 1932): found to be of no value as an oil seed: see report to Mr Sampson (Ref 2331 of 14/4/32) Shell 12.7% Kernel 87.3% - Moisture 15.1%, matter soluble in light petroleum 2.5% (fresh kernels) 2.9% dry kernels


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collectionCode: Economic Botany
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occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062961
recordNumber: 7786
modified: 2006-11-03 15:30:20.153000
recordedBy: King Dr Herb Kew
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Perak
eventDate: 1885-07-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/07/1885
ScientificName: Aglaia curtisii
scientificNameAuthorship: King
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Aglaia
specificEpithet: curtisii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb hort Bot Calcuttensis, Flora of the Malay Peninsula A tree 60 to 80 feet high and 2 to 3 feet in diameter. Leaves dark green brown underneath. Flowers and flower stem dark reddish brown. Grows on low hills, jungle Alt 500 to 800 feet


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062962
recordNumber: 6531
modified: 2006-11-03 16:00:33.240000
recordedBy: King Dr Herb Kew
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Perak, Larut
eventDate: 1884-09-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/09/1884
ScientificName: Aglaia macrostigma
scientificNameAuthorship: King
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Aglaia
specificEpithet: macrostigma
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb Hort Bot Calcuttensis, Flora of the Malay Peninsula A tree 50 to 70 feet with spreading branches. Stem 2 to 3 feet in diameter. Leaves dull green. Fruit yellow when ripe 4 to 5 inches long by 3 to 4 inches in diameter, pear shaped. Habitat Rocky local. Alt 500 to 800 feet


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062971
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Central Province
ScientificName: Antelaea azadirachta
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Adelb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Antelaea
specificEpithet: azadirachta
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Native name ? Nim. Exhibitor; Divisional Forest Officer No. 527 D.D. Cat. p.18. Place of Production; Sconi ? Central Province.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062978
modified: 2006-10-30 15:15:38.460000
country: Madagascar
countryCode: MG
locality: Madagascar
ScientificName: Aphanamixis polystachya
scientificNameAuthorship: (Wall.) R.Parker
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Aphanamixis
specificEpithet: polystachya
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See letter 70, 1915, x p 5.  Trichilia or Meliaceae from Madagascar. Amoora rohituka - Seed oblong with a brown testa enclosed completely in a fleshy scarlet aril (Beddome, Fl Sylv t.132)  Seeds with a bright red thick fleshy arils filled with milky juice, testa dark chestnut coloured (Talbot, For Fl Bombay  1p 238 & 141 fruit etc.  Amoora sp Goi Annam, Cochin China, Herb L Pierre, No 90 1867 in Herb Kew


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000062994
modified: 2006-10-27 14:29:57.747000
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: Andaman Islands, Port Blain, Shaitankhari Creek
ScientificName: Carapa moluccensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Carapa
specificEpithet: moluccensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Sea level, tidal creek in Mangrove swamp, ripe seeds of fruit. Fruit opened into 4 coriaceous valves.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000000063
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: West Bengal, Calcutta, Calcutta Bot. Gards., India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia Tropical
ScientificName: Dillenia scabrella
scientificNameAuthorship: (D.Don) Roxb. ex Wall.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Dilleniaceae
genus: Dillenia
specificEpithet: scabrella
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Native of Assam and Silhet etc. From a tree destroyed by the cyclone of 1864. Tree aged 54 years.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063005
country: Cuba
countryCode: CU
locality: Cuba
ScientificName: Cedrela odorata
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Cedrela
specificEpithet: odorata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Cum found on a Cedar tree in the woods of Mr Joseph Rogues Farm called the Josefa District of Bolondron Island of Cuba. Presented to Mr Christy by his friend Jos. Jusini?.  Good for chest complaints


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063013
locality: SW Tropical Africa
ScientificName: Khaya anthotheca
scientificNameAuthorship: (Welw.) C.DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Khaya
specificEpithet: anthotheca
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  No 10 Angola, Golungo Alto, vag 587 No 49, arbor spectabilis Also a note which is difficult to read Verified by Dr Staff Dec 1908 J Mst


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063018
country: Ghana
countryCode: GH
locality: Gold Coast, Ancobra River
ScientificName: Meliaceae
scientificNameAuthorship: Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Xylotrya sp, a borer found in logs of Khaya sp., when stored in sea water awaiting shipment. Kew Bull 2.1913


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063022
recordNumber: 6503
recordedBy: Burchell WJ
locality: Rio Manuel Gomez
eventDate: 1828-07-03 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 03/07/1828
identifiedBy: Pennington TD
ScientificName: Guarea guidonia
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Sleumer
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Guarea
specificEpithet: guidonia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  It is dioicous and the male plants are distinguished as machos. Bunches pendulous. Laeves used in washing linen to which they impart a pleasant smell. 3.7.28


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063024
locality: West Africa
ScientificName: Khaya senegalensis
scientificNameAuthorship: (Desv.) A.Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Khaya
specificEpithet: senegalensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  The enclosed resin came with some herbarium specimens communicated by the Coast Dev Synd Ltd in June last. There was no label with the resin and no reference to it in the covering letter which with my memo is sent to the Directors office at the same time as this sample (see letter 19). 1906 see Coast Dev Syn ltd to Director Memo Dr Stapf to Mr Hillier July 19 1906


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063037
recordNumber: 2436
modified: 2005-07-05 15:45:41.147000
recordedBy: Jefford TG, Juniper BE, Newbould J
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Tanzania, Mahali Mts, Mpanda District
eventDate: 1958-09-17 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 17/09/1958
ScientificName: Khaya
scientificNameAuthorship: A.Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Khaya
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Massive tree, 50 by 4 feet, crown round, spreading dense, pendant to the ground at the edges. Bole short breaking up reticulately. Old bark bronze colour flecked grey scaling in large and oblong flakes to show ochre coloured patches. Setambula


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063045
modified: 2008-01-14 11:29:30.577000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa
ScientificName: Melia azedarach
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Melia
specificEpithet: azedarach
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Ref No. 30/1927. Letter No. 410/1927. An Indian tree. C. Fruits of Melia Azedarch Linn. An Indian tree commonly known as the Persia Lilac or Bead Tree cultivated in Natal & other parts of South Africa where it is frequently referred to as the Syringa Tree.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063052
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Bombay
ScientificName: Melia dubia
scientificNameAuthorship: Cav.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Melia
specificEpithet: dubia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Melia superba - Local name of drug, Kala, Khajur, or Kurroo Khajur. The dried fruit of this tree is sold in all the shops under this name, which means black or bitter date. In size, shape and colour it is very much like that fruit, but upon closer examination the pulp is found to adhere firmly to a large and very hard stone. The remains of the peduncle may also be seen to be different from that of a date. When soaked in water it soon losses its shrivelled appearance, and becomes like a large oval yellowish green plum. The skin is now seen to be thick and easily separated from the pulp which consists of a delicate parenchyma supported by fibrous bands attached to the stone. The apex of the fruit is blunt, and studded with small tubicles. At the base is attached the five partite calyx and a small portion of the fruit stalk. The stone is an inch in length, obscurely five furrowed, oblong, perferated at both ends; apex five toothed around the perforation, five celled; seeds solitary, lanceolar, attached from the apex, perisperm in small quantities, embryo straight, inverse; cotyledons lanceolate; radicle oval, superior. The seed is 3/4 of an inch long and 3/6 of an inch broad, testa dark brown or black, polished; kernel very oily sweet tasted. Under the microscope cells of the fruit pulp are seen to be full of oil globules and fine granular matter, and the skin to consist of one row of columnar cells covered by a horny epidermis. This drug has a bitter nauseous taste. It is a favourite remedy amongst the labouring classes for colic; half a fruit is the dose for an adult. It appears to have hardly any purgative properties but is said to relieve the pain most effectively. Melia superba is a native of Soonda and is a large forest tree. Dymock Pharm Journal.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063055
locality: West Tropical Africa
ScientificName: Melia dubia
scientificNameAuthorship: Cav.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Melia
specificEpithet: dubia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  c. flower & fruit mature Sept. & Oct. 1855. Flora Angolensis. Label in Foreign language, see sample.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063060
country: Australia
countryCode: AU
locality: Australia
ScientificName: Owenia acidula
scientificNameAuthorship: F.Muell.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Owenia
specificEpithet: acidula
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Darling-Deant? Fruit (Itu Mooby ?? of the natives) edible. Mrs Kennedy Dec. 1887. Three large fruits recd. Jan 23. 1888 No. 10. Phytologic Museum of Melbourne.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063065
locality: Djurland
ScientificName: Pseudocedrela kotschyi
scientificNameAuthorship: (Schweinf.) Harms
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Pseudocedrela
specificEpithet: kotschyi
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew. T.A.S. 7.VII.05. P kotschyi Harms. in Engl. Jahrb. XXII.154. Label in foreign language.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063071
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Central Province
ScientificName: Soymida febrifuga
scientificNameAuthorship: (Roxb.) A.Juss.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Soymida
specificEpithet: febrifuga
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Exhibitor; Conservator of Forests ?? No. 704 D.D. Cat p.3 Place of production; Sambalpur?


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063076
country: Barbados
countryCode: BB
locality: Barbados
ScientificName: Swietenia mahagoni
scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Jacq.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Swietenia
specificEpithet: mahagoni
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Capsule of Mahogany tree. Alfred J Large, Upper Bay Street, Barbados. See letter 635/27. Pod open - 9 seeds. Herbarium 1942/27 Two mounted mahogany 'pods' were received from the same source as enclosed material; does this confirm their identity as Swietenia m.? Enclosed not required at Museum; if wanted at Herbarium please acknowledge. J.H.H. Kept for Herb. 1.XII.27. Opuscular source:  Letter from Director; Sept 1st 1927. Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th ultimo, accompanied by a specimen of a mahogany capsule about to open. The capsule arrived in good condition. May I express to you my best thanks for your kindness in forwarding so interesting a specimen. I notice with pleasure that you hope to be able to forward shortly herbarium material from the tree. Note; This in drying burst open & the complete fruit is here resplendid. J.H. H. 10.X1.27.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063085
modified: 2013-03-07 12:58:37.777000
country: South Africa
countryCode: ZA
locality: South Africa
ScientificName: Swietenia
scientificNameAuthorship: Jacq.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Swietenia
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Copy of letter to Director from Pearson, South African College, Cape Town 19. 05.1903.  The slab of wood to which you refer is a piece of mahogany which formed part of a log cut up at the Woolwich Arsenal.  It was sent there for growthat Coopers Still, who gave it to me.  The perforations are supposed to have been made by white ants.  In places they contain a curious tertiary growth the nature of which was in dispute.  Two suggestions were made 1. They represent an internal callus formed as a result of injury.  2.  That they are portions of roots grown into the cavities.  The latter I thought improbable.  I thought it  was of sufficient interest to make it worthy of a place at the museum,  but kept it back in the hope that further light might be thrown upon the origin of the internal growth.  I did not however succeed in finding out any more about it and quite overlooked it when I was leaving.  Pearson Label source:  The specimen has been submitted to Dr Scott who writes as follows.The ingrowth shows the wood structure but much more irregular than in normal wood.  There is no indication of root characters and there is every probability that the callus explanation is the right one. - ie. the internal callus was probably formed as a result of an injury


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063087
recordedBy: Hummel C
country: Belize
countryCode: BZ
locality: British Honduras, Botanic Station
eventDate: 1920-09-28 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 28/09/1920
ScientificName: Swietenia macrophylla
scientificNameAuthorship: King
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Swietenia
specificEpithet: macrophylla
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Botanical station 8 miles up river from Belize.  This tree was originally on the ground, growing wild, not planted.  Mahogany no3. Alt about 20`?  Fairly numerous on good soil all over the colony but rare now close to the mouth of the Belize River owing to the continued cuttings during the last  2 centuries.  Still unripe fruits, collected too early for same reason as given for the collection of flowers from Billy Webb no 2. This tree has been labelled and numbered as Mahogany no3 for continued botanical and silvicultural observation.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063092
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Madras, Salem
ScientificName: Toona ciliata
scientificNameAuthorship: M.Roem.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Toona
specificEpithet: ciliata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Maylapoo (Tamil name)  See Catalogue of Raw Products Madras 1857. Class IV sec iii Dyes and colours in Rep Econ Pl India II no 8


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063100
modified: 2005-06-22 13:07:15.167000
country: Malawi
countryCode: MW
locality: East Tropical Africa, River Shire
eventDate: 1859-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/01/1859
ScientificName: Trichilia emetica
scientificNameAuthorship: Vahl
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Trichilia
specificEpithet: emetica
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  See specimens from Zambesi, seeds yield a firm oil.  Wood soft, used for small canoes, platters etc. Also dated Feb 1863.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063104
modified: 2004-07-20 12:17:09.423000
recordedBy: Spruce, Richard
country: Ecuador
countryCode: EC
locality: Ecuador, Chimborazo
ScientificName: Trichilia
scientificNameAuthorship: P.Browne
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Trichilia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Tree frequent towards the base of Chimborazo at from 2000 to 2500 feet altitude. It is called Muruvillo by the inhabitants, who employ it successfully in the cure of Agues. The tree is slender and does not exceed 25 feet in height.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063114
country: Cameroon
countryCode: CM
locality: Cameroons
ScientificName: Carapa procera
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Carapa
specificEpithet: procera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Shewing alternation of flowering and leaf stages To go with the specimen No 533A of 10th Jan 1931 see letter 46.35.1927


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063120
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: Nigeria
ScientificName: Carapa procera
scientificNameAuthorship: DC.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Carapa
specificEpithet: procera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Mr BG McLellan, Rowntrees & Co Ltd York 26 July 1934, 3 nuts from Nigeria submitted for identification. July 30 1934 imported the seeds of C.procera a large tree of West Africa. Same seed in Museum under the name of Ibegogo from South Nigeria and samples of the kernels from Sierra Leone, Gold Coast etc. examined at the Imp Inst and found to contain 50% of a bitter oil suitable for candle manufacture and soap (See Bull Imp Inst 1908 p.360 and Coll Rep Misc 88 1914 - Carapa seeds pp.564-567)JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063121
modified: 2007-05-18 17:35:38.433000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil
ScientificName: Carapa guianensis
scientificNameAuthorship: Aubl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Carapa
specificEpithet: guianensis
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Letter Feb 3rd 1931 Seeds, No 537, from Messrs Knowles & Foster for identification - called 'Castanha Mineira' from Brazil, thought to be 'Kola nuts' Reply: certainly not Kola Nuts and inadvisable to use the seeds as such. The true kola nut tree (Cola acuminata) native of West Africa is however believed to be cultivated in Brazil - further sample requested of seeds from Brazil with a view to identification. Later letter stating that dealer had said they were Kola Nuts = Carapa guianensis, named in Herbarium 13.ii.31 JHH


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006313
modified: 2006-12-11 11:55:26.220000
country: Belize
countryCode: BZ
locality: Belize
ScientificName: Dalbergia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Very desirable for cabinet making. It is plentiful in the southern parts of the Colony. It grows to a height of 30 feet and a girth of 36 to 38 inches. Its weight is at present an obstacle in getting it out in logs of any size. If interested write The Secretary, Br.Honduras Chamber of Commerce.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063134
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Goa
ScientificName: Naregamia alata
scientificNameAuthorship: Wight & Arn.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Meliaceae
genus: Naregamia
specificEpithet: alata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This is the country Ipecacuanha or trifolia of the Portuguese at Goa. It is a small woody shrub, seldom more than 6 to 8 inches high, consisting of several slender stems sparingly branched rising from a spreading root stock, which is contorted knotty and warty. The leaves are alternate mostly situated at the ends of the branches and consist of a narrow winged petiole 1 inch long, at the end of which are articulated three small cuneate obovate leaflets. The ends of the shoots and buds areseen under the microscope to be thickly covered with white simple hairs; the petiole and leaflets are nearly free from them. The flowers are large and white on axillary peduncles; the capsules three angled and three valved. The drug consists of the creeping root with the small stems attached the leaves having been stripped off. A section of the root examined microscopically presents a tolerably thick dry suberous layer of a brown colour immediately within this the parenchyma, which is composed of thin walled cells and is much loaded with a yellowish oil. In the inner portion of the bark the cells contain starch, the wood is very hard and of a greenish yellow colour. The drug has a somewhat pungent aromatic odour but hardly any taste; it is given as an emetic in doses of from 12 to 18 grains. Trifolia is abundant in the Southern Concon and Goa territory on the banks of Nullahs.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063151
country: Senegal
countryCode: SN
locality: Senegal
ScientificName: Boswellia
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb. ex Colebr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Boswellia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Commercial Intelligence Branch Central Economic Board Khartoum Note - 'I think this means Acacia senegal, not the country, nor Boswellia' FNH 85


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063182
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Bombay, Pauch Mehals
ScientificName: Boswellia serrata
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Boswellia
specificEpithet: serrata
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Exhibitor; conservator of Forests. No. 237 D.D. Cat. p. 15. Circle du Nord. Indes Anglaises.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063189
country: India
countryCode: IN
locality: India, Coimbatore
ScientificName: Boswellia
scientificNameAuthorship: Roxb. ex Colebr.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Boswellia
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  India Museum Exhibition Road S.W. Dear Sir, I send you the only small sample we have of Kundroos or Salai Gum which is referred to as Boswellia it is from Coimbatore. Most of the Olibanum which we receive from India is undoubtedly imported from Arabia. You are doubtless aware that Dr Birdwood is of the opinion that none of the gum resin of the Bazaar called Kundur is of Indian origin. Some Kundroos is clearly only the resin of Valeria indica and Luban is applied to Benzoin and also the resin of such coniferous trees as Pinus longifolia obtained by a rough process of distillation. To your request I respond in the best manner that I can. M Cooker? Sept. 4.1878.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006319
modified: 2010-07-13 10:32:46.707000
country: Thailand
countryCode: TH
locality: Thailand, Korat, Udorn
ScientificName: Dalbergia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Supply limited. Ticals 4.00 - 5.00 per picul (1 picul - 133 1/3 lbs) Roy. For. Dept. Siam


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063219
modified: 2006-05-04 16:25:49.347000
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Moluccas, Island of Banda
ScientificName: Canarium commune
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: commune
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  For eating the kernels as a dessert, as also for pulping them for oil and in cooking and superior to Bathee (?) in many instances. Of what part of tree, The Fruit Product so much uncertain. Price per 100 0/1 (??)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063221
modified: 2019-07-18 10:55:03.820000
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Java, Buitenzorg
ScientificName: Canarium commune
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: commune
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Made by Javanese purchased in Buitenzorg. Exhibited in Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew.  May 1998 to May 2016.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063223
modified: 2007-01-18 16:25:58.917000
country: Dominica
countryCode: DM
locality: Dominica
ScientificName: Bursera gummifera
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Bursera
specificEpithet: gummifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Flambeau, made from gum obtained from Bursera gummifera L., enclosed in a portion of the spathe of Euterpe montana R. Grah. The gum burns so brightly and the scent is so fragrant that it is used  as incense in Roman Catholic churches.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063224
modified: 2006-04-21 10:26:10.487000
country: Dominica
countryCode: DM
locality: Dominica
ScientificName: Bursera gummifera
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Bursera
specificEpithet: gummifera
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Flambeau from Dominica made of 'Gummifera Gum' Bursera gummifera L. or Dacryodes hexandra Griseb., wrapped in leaves of 'Balisier' (Heliconia sp.) Used generally in the West Indies as torches.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063228
modified: 2005-07-08 13:56:07.343000
country: Tanzania
countryCode: TZ
locality: Tanganyika
eventDate: 1881-01-01 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 00/00/1881
ScientificName: Canarium schweinfurthii
scientificNameAuthorship: Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: schweinfurthii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Stone bought from West of Lake Tanganyika and given to Dr Kirk, Zanzibar with whom it germinated. The fruits of this tree yeild an oil and the trunk a resin.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063229
country: Indonesia
countryCode: ID
locality: Amboina
ScientificName: Canarium microcarpum
scientificNameAuthorship: Willd.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: microcarpum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  This was received as A ? excelsa but according to Dr Greshoff of the Haarlem Museum Canarium microcarpa is the correct name. JMST 10.10.90.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063231
ScientificName: Canarium moluccanum
scientificNameAuthorship: Blume
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: moluccanum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  122. Ex Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew. Hochrentine. Plantx Bogorienses Ex?? Recd. 3 June 1905 . Museum June 13.1912 J.H.H.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063237
recordNumber: 86
modified: 2006-05-09 15:39:45.257000
recordedBy: Waterhouse JHL
country: Solomon Islands
countryCode: SB
locality: Solomon Island, New Georgia
eventDate: 1929-06-22 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 22/06/1929
ScientificName: Canarium salomonense
scientificNameAuthorship: B.L.Burtt
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: salomonense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew. Tree, nuts much esteemed by natives. See dried specimens in Herbarium. Label source:  Keeper, Herbarium; Museums; these samples of gum from a Canarium from the Solomon Islands may be of interest to the museums. We have ample herbarium material here of this and other gatherings. The species was described a few years ago by Mr Burtt and seems a quite distinct one. V.S.S. 5.X.1942.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063252
recordedBy: Lindong FL
country: Malaysia
countryCode: MY
locality: Malay Peninsula
eventDate: 1951-05-09 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 09/05/1951
ScientificName: Canarium sumatranum
scientificNameAuthorship: Boerl. & Koord.-Schum.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: sumatranum
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Specimen of flowers & leaves in Herbarium. Kepong Field No. 55781. (Forest 57) Distributed from the Forest Research Institute Kepong. Locality; Bt. Lagong F.R. Selangor. Height 100` Girth b.h.72'


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063256
locality: New Guinea
ScientificName: Canarium
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Brought from New Guinea by D`Albertis the explorer 1875 (See his book on N.G. ). To be analysed.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063257
modified: 2006-05-08 14:26:29.490000
country: Liberia
countryCode: LR
locality: Liberia
ScientificName: Canarium
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Gum Elemi, Putu Liberia (See letter 169, 1906) Genuine Gum Elemi. This sample has been very badly prepared as it should be as white as possible & free from all dirty and foreign matter. It should be packed in air tight tins of about 60lbs each two or four in a case. The market at present is very bare of stock and a moderate shipment carefully prepared would sell well at about 55/- to 60/- per cwt. (Signed) Jenkins Phillips  July 7.1906.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063259
modified: 2006-05-09 15:07:40.530000
country: Liberia
countryCode: LR
locality: Liberia
ScientificName: Canarium
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Two labels; first says Ficus sp, probably F vogelii Miq., but second label says certainly not from Ficus.  Rather agrees with Canarium JMH 23.2.05


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006326
modified: 2016-12-15 12:51:03.110000
country: Brazil
countryCode: BR
locality: Brazil
ScientificName: Dalbergia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Riptolemaea sp.  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063265
modified: 2006-04-19 16:58:26.813000
country: Canada
countryCode: CA
locality: British Columbia, Vancouver
ScientificName: Canarium commune
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: commune
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Named in Herb, seen by Mr Sprague 15.i.1923.  Letter 20, 1923 xv p38.  ML Bird, Asst Inspector (Provincial Fruit Inspectors Office) Dept of Agric Vancouver, dated 27 Dec 1922


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063267
recordNumber: S1407/4
recordedBy: Bola I
country: Fiji
countryCode: FJ
locality: Fiji, Serua
eventDate: 1962-02-22 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 22/02/1962
ScientificName: Canarium smithii
scientificNameAuthorship: Leenh.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: smithii
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A big tree 46` tall and a GBH of 4ft 4inch.  Common at Navutulevu, Serua, 600` ASL, TRF. Rainfall 200 inches pa.  Bark slash exudes raisin gums.  Tree commonly used for timber.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063268
recordNumber: S1407/2
recordedBy: Seru P
country: Fiji
countryCode: FJ
locality: Fiji, Labasa
eventDate: 1962-02-22 00:00:00.0000000
verbatimEventDate: 22/02/1962
ScientificName: Canarium vitiense
scientificNameAuthorship: A.Gray
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
specificEpithet: vitiense
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  A big tree 40` tall, GBH 4ft 4inch .  Common at Sarava, Labasa 500` ASL.  Dry TRF 105 inches rainfall per annum.  Bark slash exudes raisin gums.  Tree commonly used for timber.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063272
modified: 2006-05-09 17:10:18.277000
country: Uganda
countryCode: UG
locality: Uganda
ScientificName: Canarium
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
occurrenceRemarks:
Opuscular source:  Extract of letter from Mahon to Director.  I send a small quantity of the gum resin or balsam from the bark of trunk and roots of the Mwafu or incease tree of the country, and which is I presume Canarium stuhlmanni.  I also send a piece of bark to show characteristic exudation.  The Mwafu is a tree of extremely noble port as a rule and I understand, the timber is of first rate quality.  The balsam is occasionally burnt by the natives for the sake of its pleasant odour, it also is a brilliant illuminant and is utilised for this purpose.  You will observe that the balsam from the trunk bark is harder and less inclined to be transparent than that of the root bark.  It exudes as a thin, very oily fluid almost transparent but with a grey tinge and having a rather acrid odour.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063275
modified: 2006-05-09 17:10:39.030000
ScientificName: Canarium
scientificNameAuthorship: L.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Canarium
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Nuts 1. From Miss Berry. 2. M594/28 for name sent to Mr Bean by Dr C Nicholson, 35, The Avenue, Hale Sud? 17.ix.28.  Near C oratum.


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000006328
modified: 2016-12-15 12:54:30.920000
country: Madagascar
countryCode: MG
locality: Madagascar
ScientificName: Dalbergia
scientificNameAuthorship: L.f.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Fabaceae
genus: Dalbergia
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Used for making Musical instruments. Possibly Dalbergia sp L.A.B. 6.6.1930. Cocobolo prieta.  Displayed in 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection ofwooden objects and rare timbers from EBC)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063283
country: Nigeria
countryCode: NG
locality: North Nigeria, Luka
ScientificName: Commiphora africana
scientificNameAuthorship: (A.Rich.) Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Commiphora
specificEpithet: africana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  In the Herb there is a specimen named Omel Barker, collected by Vogel, no 102 1854, Kouka = Balsamodendron africanum of Fl Trop Af (JHH 15.v.09)


institutionCode: K
collectionCode: Economic Botany
basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
occurrenceID: http://specimens.kew.org/Ecbot/K:EBC-000063285
modified: 2006-04-18 15:17:26.587000
country: Egypt
countryCode: EG
locality: Egypt
ScientificName: Commiphora africana
scientificNameAuthorship: (A.Rich.) Engl.
kingdom: Plantae
family: Burseraceae
genus: Commiphora
specificEpithet: africana
occurrenceRemarks:
Label source:  Water vessels are held over the smoke of burning wood to give the water an agreeable flavour.


