584 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
pioid cyme in Siérychnos), sometimes condensed into solitary, 
axillary flowers. Flowers perfect, usually regular; calyx gamo- 
sepalous; corolla gamopetalous, hypogynous, rotate, campanulate 
Fic. 441.—Strychnos Nux-vorica—F lowering branch and seeds. (Sayre.) 
or infundibuliform; stamens inserted on the corolla tube or 
throat and with thread-like filaments; ovary superior, two-celled; 
style elongate with bifid stigma; ovules numerous. Fruit usually 
a capsule, septicidally dehiscent (Gelsemium sempervirens), or 
loculicidally dehiscent (Spigelia marilandica), sometimes a berry 
