CLASSIFICATION OF ANGIOSPERMS. 



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which are official. In the closely related plant S. hispidus the 

 flowers are numerous and occur in terminal cymes. 



FIG. 365. Butterfly-weed or Pleurisy-root (Asdepias tuberose), showing the sessile, oblong- 

 ovate leaves and the simple, many-flowered umbels. 



QUEBRACHO or ASPIDOSPERMA is the bark of Aspidosperma 

 Quebracho-bianco, a tree growing in Argentine. It contains a 

 number of alkaloids and is used to some extent in medicine. 



