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Brucea sumatrana R.

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Unknown Artist (Company School)

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Watercolour illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh. ROX1529.
In his 'Flora Indica', Roxburgh describes this species as a shrub, native of Sumatra. According to Roxburgh, Mr. Ewer sent some seeds of this species to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, '...where in one year the plants were about four feet high with a straight ligneous stem; and few branches. They then began to flower in May, and continued to blossom and ripen their seed all the year.' Roxburgh also reports that this plant can be used as a good antidysenteric, and writes: 'Since I first described this tree, and only from plants that were completely hermaphrodite I have found some plants perfectly male, and others as completely female. In this plant, therefore, we have another instance of Trioicous Polygamy.'
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.1, p.449.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

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Flora
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Category

Glossary
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