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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



or condensed cyme. Flowers perfect, usually regular, but pass more 

 or less to irregular, sometimes very irregular as in genus Cuphea; 

 sepals five to four, more or less fused below in themselves and with 

 calyx tube; petals commonly five, often frilled or crumpled, inserted 

 on the mouth of the calyx tube; stamens fifteen, ten or five in alter- 

 nate rows of five each, inserted hypogynously or perigynously; 

 pistil six-, five-, four,- two--, rarely one-carpeled with as many cavi- 

 ties in the ovary and numerous small ovules; style elongate with 

 pointed or knobbed stigma. Flowers of Punica granatum are 

 scarlet in color. Fruit a baccate capsule (Punica granatum) or 



FIG. 219. Punica granatum Branch with flowers. (Sayre.) 



capsule, dehiscing longitudinally or transversely. Seeds exal- 

 buminous. 



Official drug Part used Botanical origin Habitat 



Granatum Bark Punica Granatum India 



Unofficial 



Granati Fructus Rind of fruit Punica Granatum India 

 Cortex 



Henna Leaves Lawsonia inermis Egypt, Arabia 



