524 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
OrrFiciAL DruGc ParT Usep BotaAnicAL NAME HABITAT 
Oleum Sassafras Volatile oil from Sassafras varii- © North America 
root folium 
Cinnamomum Bark Cinnamomum Cochin China 
Loureirii 
Oleum Cinnamomi Volatile oil Cinnamomum China 
Cassia 
UnorriciAL Drucs 
Cinnamomum Bark Cinnamomum Ceylon 
Zeylanicum Zeylanicum 
Coto Bark Nectandra Coto Bolivia 
Laurus Leaves Laurus nobilis Europe 
North America 
Fagot cassia Bark Cinnamomum Asia 
Burmanii 
Clove Bark Bark Dicypellium » Beez 
caryophyllatum 
Cassia Buds Immature fruit Cinnamomum Cochin China 
, Loureirii 
Cassia Bark Bark Cinnamomum China 
Cassia 
Sassafras Medulla _ Pith Sassafras North America 
variifolium 
Orver Rua@apALes (PAPAVERALES) 
PAPAVERACEZ OR Poppy Famity.—Herbs or low shrubs. 
Root only, in some cases root and stem, and in still others the 
entire plant, traversed by anastomosing latex tubes that contain a 
milky juice, varying from white (Papaver or Poppy) or pale- 
yellow, as in Celandine (Chelidonium), to red (Bloodroot). Latex 
tubes in the axis wholly confined to cortex or phloem but occa- 
sionally sending branches into the medullary rays, rarely into 
the pith of the plant. Leaves alternate, varying from simple 
(Platystemon) to pinnatifid, pinnatipartite or even pinnately- 
compound. Inflorescence varying from a loose raceme or 
panicle of cymes to a raceme of cymes or condensing until, as in 
Papaver, only one large terminal flower is left. Flowers regular 
tetramerous or dimerous. Sepals typically two, more rarely 
three. Petals typically four, more rarely six. Stamens indef- 
inite, in most forms hypogynous, except in California Poppy 
(Eschscholtzia) where hypogyny is modified into perigyny. Pistil 
of sixteen to four, rarely two carpels generally fused together. 
Placenta parietal. Ovules numerous, anatropous. Fruit a 
