508 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
containing a milky juice in latex tubes with small, axillary, 
clustered or solitary, unisexual flowers with sepaloid perianth, 
variously colored; leaves either simple, ovate with serrate margin 
Fic. 379,.—Hop (Humulus lupulus), a member of the Moracee. A, portion of 
plant showing pistillate inflorescences; B, staminate inflorescence; C, rachis of 
pistillate inflorescence (“hop”). (Robbins.) 
or palmately lobed (fig) to palmately compound (hemp) and 
having caducous stipules; ovules mostly amphitropous; fruit an 
akene enclosed by the persistent perianth, as in hop and can- 
