ADONIS 229 



5 to 7 petals, twice as long as the sepals, lanceolate-ovate, reddish or 

 yellow and usually having at the base a black spot; stamens indefinite, 

 with brownish-red anthers; pistils numerous, forming in fruit a 

 dense head of achenes and subtended by the remains of the calyx; 

 achenes ovoid, compressed and pointed at the summit. 



The drug contains 0.215 per cent of a glucoside, which resembles 

 adonidin, but is weaker in its physiological action. 



FIG. 100. Podophyllum Emodi, a Himalayan plant now more or less cultivated 

 and showing the long petiolate, deeply 3-lobed leaves and their strongly 

 toothed margins. Photographs of plants growing in Botanical Gardens, 

 University of Minnesota. 



Allied Plants. In Adonis microcarpa, growing in Sicily, occurs a 

 principle resembling Adonidin. Also an ash, of which 10 per cent 

 is completely soluble in hydrochloric acid, and an aqueous extract 

 amounting to 32 per cent. 



Literature. Zornig, Arzneidrogen. 



