Jateothiza
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Read about Jateothiza in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Jateothiza (name alludes to healing qualities of the root). Also spelled Jatrorrhiza. Menispermaccae. Tropical twiners. Herbaceous perennials or suffrutescent, with rough or setose sts.: lvs. large, palmately lobed: dicecious; male fls. in long and slender racemose panicles in the axils; female fls. in racemes that are simple or nearly so; sepals 6 in 2 series; petals 6, shorter than the sepals; stamens (in male fl.) 6, the filaments free or connate; carpels (in female fl.) 3, with divided stigmas: fr. an ovoid drupe.—Species apparently 2, in Trop. Afr. J. palmatum, Miers (Cocculus palmatus, DC. Menispermum palmatum. Lam. M. Columba, Roxbg. J. Columba, Miers). Probably not in the trade in our territory, but the fascicled fusiform fleshy roots are the source of the drug calumba: st. herbaceous: lvs. 6-16 in. across, 3-5-lobed, deeply cordate, the lateral lobes broad-ovate or roundish triangular, the central lobe often broadly obovate: male panicles very slender, 6-12 in. or more long: drupes ovoid, setose, in clusters of 4-6. Mozambique; the name calumba or columba is said to have come from Columbo, Ceylon, whence the supply of roots was once supposed to have come. B.M. 2970, 2971. L. H. B.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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