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588 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
simple, entire, deciduous or evergreen. Inflorescence cymose. 
Flowers regular, pentamerous, rarely tetramerous; sepals five, 
gamosepalous, green, rarely subpetaloid to petaloid; petals five, 
slightly to deeply gamopetalous, in shape varying from open 
tubular, stellate, to elongate tubular to elongate funnel-shaped, 
Fic. 446.—Strophanthus hispidus—Branch and seed with comose awn. (Sayre) 
in color varying from greenish-yellow to white or from yellow- 
red to crimson to crimson-purple to nearly purple-blue; stamens 
five, epipetalous; pistil usually bicarpellate; ovary two-celled 
with central placentation; style more or less elongate with ter- 
minal brush of hairs, knobbed or multifid; stigma a circular band 
or circular spur beneath terminal style swelling. Fruit two folli- 
cles (Apocynum, etc.), a berry, drupe, or capsule. Seeds flattened 
frequently hairy, albuminous. : 
