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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



flowers and oily seeds. Many are parasitic on the roots of other 

 plants. 



Official drug Part used 



Oleum Santali Volatile oil 



Santalum Album N.F. Heartwood 



Botanical name Habitat 



f India and East 



Santalum album 



I Indies 



FIG. 1 80. Aristolochia serpentaria. (Sayre.) 



VIII. Order Aristolochiales. A ristolochiacea or Birthwort Family. 

 Herbs or twining semi- woody or woody plants, having more or less 

 swollen nodes from which spring cordate or reniform or ovate leaves. 

 Flowers regular (Asarum, etc.) or irregular (Aristolochia) often 

 offensively smelling. Fruit a capsule. Seeds with copious albu- 

 men and minute embryo. 



