552 _ PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
indefinite, inserted hypogynously or upon an enlarged disc that 
surrounds or swells up between stamens and pistil; pistil mono- 
carpellary (Rhus), more rarely bicarpellary, very rarely, as in 
Spondiea, of ten to five carpels, ovary one-celled with single 
ovule. Fruit a drupe. Seeds exalbuminous with large embryo 
filling seed cavity. 
OrrFictAL DruG PART Usep BoTANICAL ORIGIN HABITAT 
Mastiche Concrete resinous Pistacia Lentiscus Grecian Archi- 
exudate pelago 
UnorriciAL Druc 
Chinese Galls Excrescences Rhus semialata China 
Japanese Galls Excrescences Rhus japonica Japan 
Rhus Glabra Ripe fruits Rhus glabra - Canada and United 
States 
Rhus Typhina Ripe fruits Rhus typhina United States 
Acajou Gum Gum Anacardium West Indies 
occidentale 
Pistachio Seeds Pistacia vera Western Asia 
Anacardium Fruit Anacardium West Indies 
occidentale 
Rhus Fresh leaflets Rhus toxicodendron United States 
Toxicodendron 
AguIroLiace# (ILicacE#) or Horry Famity.—Trees or 
shrubs, chiefly evergreen; leaves alternate, petiolate, simple with 
entire to spiny-toothed margin (J/ex opaca or American Holly). 
Flowers regular, small, greenish to white, hermaphrodite or 
polygamous or dioecious. Fruit drupaceous and containing 4 
to 6 nutlets. Caffeine has been obtained from Maté and 
Cassena. 
UnorriciAL Druc Part Usep BoraAnicAL NAME HABITAT 
Maté Leaves Ilex paraguariensis South America 
Cassine (Cassena) Leaves Ilex vomitoria Southeastern 
United States 
Black Alder (Prinos) Bark Ilex verticillata North America 
CELASTRACE@ OR Starr TREE Famity.—Shrubs (Evonymus 
or Burning Bush), or shrubby climbers (Céelastrus or Climbing 
Bittersweet). Leaves rarely alternate (Celastrus), usually oppo- 
site (Evonymus, Pachystima), simple, entire or toothed. Inflores- 
cence of axillary cymes of terminal racemes. Flowers perfect 
(Evonymus, Pachystima) or polygamo-dicecious (Celastrus), greenish 
(Celastrus), greenish or yellowish-white (Evonymus Europeus), 
