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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



PIG. 1 86. Podophyllum peltatum. Entire plant, above ground portion, and 

 fruit. Note the flowering sterns bearing in each instance two one-sided leaves 

 and a nodding flower from the forks. This plant also sends up from its rhizome 

 flowerless stems each of which terminates in a 7 -9 lobed peltate leaf. 



Official drug Part used Botanical name Habitat 



Calumba Root Jateorhiza East Africa 



palmata 

 Pareira N.F. Root Chondodendron Peru and Brazil 



tomentosum 

 Cocculus N.F. Fruit ' Anamirta cocculus Asia 



Unofficial 



Menispermum Rhizome and roots Menispermum 



canadense 



United States and 

 Canada 



