中药海底椰饮片的鉴定

Identification of Chinese Drug Sea Coconut

经调查鉴定,中药海底椰片原植物应为榈科复椰子Lodoicea maldivica及扇叶树头榈Bo-rassus flabellifer的种子加工切片品;本文还对前者进行生药组织构造鉴定。

Sea Coconut is the seed of Lodoicea maldivica Persoon, palmae. It is one species in the Seychelles Islands, Africa. The drug is yellow-white in colour, slice-shaped, 12cm in length and 4cm in breadth. Seed-coat cell circular in shape. Under seed-coat, the cells are elliptic, and stone cells are rectangle with thick wall and large pit. Endosperm cell elongate with thick wall and large pits, the end of pits enlarge as a pearl.