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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



Official drug 

 Sabal 



Unofficial 

 Dragon's Blood 

 Cocoanut oil 

 Carnauba wax 

 Areca nut 



Palm oil 



Part used 



Fruit (drupe) 



Inspissated juice 

 Fixed oil 

 Wax from leaves 

 Seed 



Fixed oil 



Botanical name 



-Serenoa serrulata 



Calamus Draco 

 Cocos nucifera 

 Copernicia cerifera 

 Areca Catechu 



Elaeis guineensis 



Habitat 



South Carolina to 

 Florida 



East Indies 



Tropics 



Brazil 



Asia and East 



Indies 



West Africa 



FIG. 165. Sabal palmetto. This palm, which appears in the center of the 

 figure, yields the official drug, sabal. In the right distance a barragona palm. 

 Cuba. (Gager.) 



III. Order Arales. Aracea or Arum Family. Perennial herbs 

 with fleshy rhizomes or corms, and long petioled leaves, containing 

 an acrid or pungent juice. Flowers crowded on a spadix, which is 

 usually surrounded by a spathe. Fruit a berry. Seeds with large 

 fleshy embryo. 



