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Vateria lanceaefolia 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. ROX2276.
In his 'Flora Indica' Roxburgh describes this species as a middling sized, spreading tree, native of the hills near Sylhet and Chittagong, where it blossoms in May and ripens its seed in July and August. Roxburgh also reports that from the resin of this tree the natives obtain by distillation "...a dark coloured, thick, strong smelling balsam, called chooa, or chova, by the people who prepare and sell it; and Goond by the brahmins, who use it in their religious ceremonies and temples".
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.2, p.601.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

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Flora
Flowers
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Category

Glossary
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