532 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
at the bases of petioles. Flowers frequently yellow to yellowish- 
white, in axillary clusters or heads or spikes, hermaphrodite or 
moneecious; sepals and petals five to four, rarely indefinite, 
superior (petals absent in Fothergilla); stamens twice as many as 
the petals, but the outer row alone fertile, the inner row being 
more or less barren, scale-like; gyncecium of two carpels united 
Fic. 402.—Liquidambar orientalis, the Sweet i eck. 
(Sapre.) 
below. Fruit a two-beaked, two-celled, woody capsule dehiscing 
at the summit, with a bony seed in each cell, or several, only one 
or two of them ripening. 
OrrFiciAL DruG Part Usep BoranicAL NAME eae 
Styrax Balsam from wood — orientalis The Levant 
(Storax) and inner bark 
Liquidambar Styracifilua Central America 
Hamamelidis Leaf Hamamelis United States 
Folium virginiana and Canada 
UnorFiciAL DruG 
Hamamelidis Bark Hamamelis United States 
Cortex virginiana 
and Canada 
