 | John Lindley - 1838 - 706 pages
...small. Radicle conical, superior. Roxb. — Under the name Sebesten Plums, Sebcitaiu, or Selnslam, two sorts of Indian fruit have been employed as pectoral...medicines, for which their mucilaginous qualities, combined witn some astringency, have recommended them. They are believed to have been the Persea of Dioscorides.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1858 - 810 pages
...straw-coloured, covered with a whitish bloom. Under the name Sebesten Plums, Sebestans, or Sepistans, two sorts of Indian fruit, have been employed as pectoral...are believed to have been the Persea of Dioscorides. Linnieus has erroneously applied the name of Sebesten to an American species of this genus which is... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1858 - 808 pages
...straw-coloured, covered with a whitish bloom. Under the name Sebestén Plums, Sebestans, or Sepistans, two sorts of Indian fruit, have been employed as pectoral...are believed to have been the Persea of Dioscorides. Linnaeus has erroneously applied the name of Sebestén to an American species of this genus which is... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 588 pages
...straw-coloured, covered with a whitish bloom. Under the name Sebesten Plums, Sebestans, or Sepistans, two sorts of Indian fruit, have been employed as pectoral...are believed to have been the Persea of Dioscorides. Linmcus has erroneously applied the name of Sebesten to an American species of this genus which is... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 630 pages
...straw-coloured, covered with a whitish bloom. Under the name Sebestén Plums, Sebestans, or Sepistans, two sorte of Indian fruit, have been employed as pectoral medicines,...are believed to have been the Persea of Dioscorides. Linuœun has erroneously applied the name of Sebestén to an American species of this genus which is... | |
 | Edward Balfour - Forests and forestry - 1870 - 404 pages
...well in compounds along with other trees. Under the name of sebestén plums, sebestans, or sepistans, two sorts of Indian fruit have been employed as pectoral...are believed to have been the Persea of Dioscorides. This tree furnishes one of them . Linnasus applied the name of Sebestén to an American species of... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1870 - 394 pages
...well in compounds along with other trees. Under the name of sebestén plums, sebestans, or sepirttans, two sorts of Indian fruit have been employed as pectoral...which their mucilaginous qualities, combined with some astringcucy, have recommended them. They are believed to have been the Pcrsfa of Dioscorides. This... | |
 | Heber Drury - Botany - 1873 - 536 pages
...producing the small ones. Lindley says that under the name of Sebesteu plums, Sebestan, or Sepistans, two sorts of Indian fruit have been employed as pectoral...mucilaginous qualities, combined with some astringency, recommend them. They are believed to have been the Persea of Dioscorides. — Lindley, Fl. Med. Boxb.... | |
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Sebestén Plums, Sebestans, or Sepistans, two sorts of Indian fruit, have been employed as pectoral medicines, for which their mucilaginous qualities, combined with some astringency, have recommended them. They are believed to have been the Persea of... 