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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



Sapindacea or Soapwort Family. Trees, shrubs, undershrubs or 

 rarely herbs of tropical climes containing the glucoside saponin. 

 Stem erect or climbing (Paullinia) often provided with tendrils. 

 Leaves commonly alternate and compound. Flowers in racemes 

 or panicles (Paullinia), perfect or polygamo-dioscious, yellowish in 



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PIG. 212. Cross section through root-bark of Euonymus atropurpureus. 

 Note the two broad dome-shaped phloem patches, one on either side of a wedge- 

 shaped primary medullary ray. 



Paullinia Cupana. Fruit a capsule (P. Cupana) } samara, drupe or 

 berry. Seeds exalbuminous. 



Aceracece or Maple Family. Chiefly trees, occasionally shrubs, of 

 temperate regions with watery sap. Leaves opposite, simple and 



