522 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
MoNnoMIACE# OR Botpo FamiLy.—Tropical trees and shrubs 
with opposite or rarely alternate, entire or serrate, pellucid- 
punctate leaves devoid of stipules, but containing cystoliths. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual in cymes or racemes; 
calyx of many to 4 lobes or teeth in 2 or more series, stamens 
numerous to few, hypogynous, carpels several to one, each with 
Fic. 390.—Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides). Top of plant. Note the 
triternately compound leaf bearing 2- to 4-lobed leaflets and the panicle of yellowish- 
green flowers. The fruits which ripen in August are dark blue berries. (Reproduced 
from U.S. Dept. Agric. Misc. Publ. 77.) 
a single ovule. Fruit a drupe (Peumus), nut or achene. Seeds 
with membranous testa and fleshy endosperm. 
OrrFiciAL Drug Part Usep 
BoTanicAL NAME HasiraAT 
Boldus Leaf 
Peumus Boldus Chile 
Laurace® or Spicepusy F AMILY.—Shrubs or trees of sub- 
tropical or tropical, rarely of temperate regions. Bark, wood and 
leaves rich in spicy, aromatic, hydrocarbon oils. Leaves alter- 
nate, simple, entire, often leathery and shining and exstipulate. 
Inflorescenes usually cymose clusters. Flowers small, green, 
yellow or rarely whitish, hermaphrodite or more or less dicecious; 
regular calyx alone present as a floral whorl, of three to six 
