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MENISPERMACEZ, OR MoonsgEED Famity.—Choripetalous, 
woody, climbing, mostly tropical plants with alternate, exstipu- 
late, simple often peltate leaves. Flowers green to white. Fruit 
Fic. 389.—Podophyllum peltatum. Entire plant, above ground portion, and 
fruit. Note the flowering stems bearing in each instance two one-sided leaves 
and a nodding flower from the forks. This plant also sends up from its rhizome 
flowerless stems each of which terminates in a 7—9 lobed peltate leaf. 
a one-seeded succulent drupe. Seeds albuminous. They usu- 
ally contain tonic, narcotic or poisonous bitter principles. 
OrrFiciAL Drue Parts UseD BoTANIcAL NAME Hasitat 
Calumba Root Jateorrhiza East Africa 
palmata 
Cocculus Fruit Anamirta Cocculus Asia 
UnorrFictAL Druc 
Menispermum Rhizome and roots Menispermum United States 
(Yellow Parilla) canadense and Canada 
Pareira Root Chondodendron Brazil and 
tomentosum Peru 
