. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). phamanihot; and Tahiti arrowroot or Tahiti orOtaheite salep is the fecula of Tacca pinnatifida. Particles of Tahiti Ar-rowroot. (Pereira.) 15. EAST INDIAN ARROWROOT is the fecula of the tubers of Curcuma angustifolia, Narrow-leaved turmeric; Sex. Syst. Monandria Monogynia; Nat. Ord. Zingiberaceae; a plant, which is indigenous in the East Indies. It is commonly white, sometimes pale yellow ; less crepitating between the fingers than the best West India arrowroot; more frequently mixed with impurities, and comp
. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). phamanihot; and Tahiti arrowroot or Tahiti orOtaheite salep is the fecula of Tacca pinnatifida. Particles of Tahiti Ar-rowroot. (Pereira.) 15. EAST INDIAN ARROWROOT is the fecula of the tubers of Curcuma angustifolia, Narrow-leaved turmeric; Sex. Syst. Monandria Monogynia; Nat. Ord. Zingiberaceae; a plant, which is indigenous in the East Indies. It is commonly white, sometimes pale yellow ; less crepitating between the fingers than the best West India arrowroot; more frequently mixed with impurities, and composed of larger granules, which are unequal in size, egg-shaped, compressed, often with a very short neck or nipple-like projection. Its composition is not ascertained. It does not make so firm a jelly with boiling water as the West India variety. Dr. Christison states that a sample, sent to him from Liverpool, and represented to have been obtained from the West India plant cultivated in Bengal, exactly resembled Bermuda arrow* root, and presented the very same appearance Fie. Particles of WhiteIndia ) East(Pe- under the microscope. MARANTA. 413 The commercial value of East India arrowroot is far below that ofthe West India.
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