472 POWDERED VEGETABLE DRUGS 



171. (Fig. 166.) SABADILLA. Cevadilla. 

 Fl. ex. 30. Fine powder. 



Lausekorner, Sabadillsamen, G. Ce*vadille, Fr. 



The seeds of Asagraea offidnalis Lindley, MelanthaceaB. 



Dull dark brown. 



Heavy, nauseous; very disagreeably rancid when old. 



Very bitter, pungent. 



Epidermal cells of seeds polygonal, vertically somewhat elongated, 

 walls rather thin, brown; brown, thin-walled, collapsed hypodermal 

 tissue. Endosperm cells collenchymatous with granular proteid matter. 



