PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



Iridacea or Iris Family. Perennial herbs with equitant two- 

 ranked leaves and regular or irregular flowers which are showy. 

 Fruit a three-celled, loculicidal, many-seeded capsule. Rootstocks, 

 tubers, or corms mostly acrid. 



Habitat 



> Europe 



Eastern United 



States 

 Mediterranean 



Basin 



V. Order Scitaminales. Zingiberacea or Ginger Family. Trop- 

 ical plants, perennial herbs, with fleshy rhizomes and large elliptical 

 pinnately-veined leaves. The leaf sheaths are folded tightly around 

 each other so as to give the appearance of a stem. Flowers, very 

 irregular, trimerous; sepals three short, often green; petals three, 

 elongate, often fused below; stamens three to four abortive, petaloid, 

 one often absent, a sixth alone fertile and stamen-like. The petaloid 

 stamens constitute the most attractive parts of the flower. Pistil, 

 inferior, tricarpellary. Fruit, a capsule. Seeds, albuminous with 

 both perispermic and endospermic albumen. 



Official drug 



Zingiber 

 Cardamomi 



Semen 

 Galanga N.F. 



Zedoaria N.F. 



Unofficial drug 

 Curcuma 



Part used 



Rhizome 

 Seeds 



Rhizome 

 Rhizome 



Botanical name 



Habitat 



Zingiber officinale Asia 

 Elettaria' Indo-China 



Cardamomum 

 Alpinia Asia 



officinarum 

 Curcuma Zedoaria Asia, Madagascar 



Prepared rhizome Curcuma longa South Asia 



