518 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
M. fragrans, a handsome tree, 20 to 30 feet high, indigenous 
to the Molucca Islands in the East Indian archipelago but 
now cultivated extensively in the West Indies, supplies the nut- 
megs and mace of commerce. 
OrFicIAL Druc Part Usep BoTANICAL NAME HABITAT 
Myristica Kernel of seed Myristica.fragrans 
Oleum Myristice Volatile oil Myristica fragrans a 
UnorriciAL Druc 
Macis _  Arillode Myristica fragrans 
RANUNCULACEZ OR BuTTERCUP FAmity.—Herbs, rarely 
shrubs (Clematis) with acrid, poisonous, 
watery juices and with alternate, rarely 
opposite, simple, rarely compound, 
exstipulate leaves. Flowers pentam- 
erous, regular to irregular, incomplete 
to complete, aposepalous and apopet- 
alous. Sepals five—rarely more or less 
—green to petaloid, regular, passing to 
irregular (Larkspur, Monkshood). 
Petals none or five, regular to rarely 
irregular, often nectariferous and with 
nectariferous petals often variously 
transformed. Stamens __ indefinite, 
hypogynous. Pistil of many to few 
apocarpous carpels, each carpel with 
one to several ovules. Fruit a collec- 
tion of achenes as in Buttercup (Ranun- 
culus), Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla), or a 
\ collection of follicles (Columbine, 
Larkspur, Peony, Aconite) or rarely a 
Fic. 387.—Above ground berry as in Baneberry (Actea) or head 
portion of Aconitum Napellus of crimson berries as in Golden Seal 
Odonkshoad) caring”: Bae (Hpdrastis). Seeds albuminous with q 
mately-divided leaves and 
hooded flowers. large oil-containing endosperm and 
small embryo. 
OrFIcIAL Druc Parts Usep Botanica, NAME Hasrrat 
Hydrastis Rhizome and roots Hydrastis canadensis Eastern United 
(Golden Seal) Stites and 
Canada 
