. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). Fig. Different forms of fecula have received the nameof arrowroot. Portland arrowroot or Port-land sago is obtained from Arum maculatum;Brazilian arrowroot is the fecula of Jatrophamanihot; 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
. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). Fig. Different forms of fecula have received the nameof arrowroot. Portland arrowroot or Port-land sago is obtained from Arum maculatum;Brazilian arrowroot is the fecula of Jatrophamanihot; 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,
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