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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



Official drug Part used 



Camphora Ketone 



Sassafras 



Bark of root 



Sassafras Medulla Pith 



N.F. 

 Cinnamomum Bark 



Zeylanicum 

 ' Cinnamomum Bark 



Saigonicum 



Oleum Cinnamomi Volatile oil 



Botanical name 



Cinnamomum 



Camphora 

 Sassafras 



variifolium 

 Sassafras 



variifolium 

 Cinnamomum 



Zeylanicum 

 Undetermined 



species of 



cinnamon 

 Cinnamomum 



cassia 



Habitat 



Eastern Asia 



North America 

 North America 

 Ceylon 

 China 



China 



XII. Order Rhoeadales (Papaverales). Papaveracece or Poppy 

 Family. Herbs or low shrubs. Root only, in some cases root and 

 stem, and in still others the entire plant, traversed by anastomosing 

 latex tubes that contain a milky juice varying from white (Papaver) 

 or pale-yellow (Chelidonium) to red (Bloodroot) . Latex tubes wholly 

 confined to cortex or phloem but occasionally sending branches into 

 the medullary rays, rarely into the pith of the plant. Leaves alter- 

 nate varying from simple (Platystemon) to pinnatifid, pinnatipartite 

 or even pinnately compound. Inflorescence varying from a loose 

 raceme or panicle of cymes to a raceme of cymes or condensing until, 

 as in Papaver, only one large terminal flower is left. Flowers regular, 

 tetramerous or dimerous. Sepals typically two more rarely three. 

 Petals typically four, more rarely six. Stamens indefinite in most 

 forms hypogynous except in California Poppy (Eschscholtzia] where 

 hypogyny is modified into perigyny. Pistil of sixteen to four, rarely 

 two carpels generally fused together. Placenta parietal. Ovules 



