PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



or imperfect. Fruit a drupe, frequently longitudinally winged, 

 containing a single seed. 



Unofficial drug Part used Botanical origin Habitat 



Combretum Leaves Combretum Sumatra 



sundaicum 



XXII. Order Umbellales or Umbelliflorse. Araliacea or Gin- 

 seng Family. Herbs (Panax quinquefolium, Hedera Helix, Aralia 

 nudicaulis, etc.), undershrubs (Aralia hispida, etc.), shrubs (Fatsia 

 horrida), or trees (Aralia spinosa) with stems which are more or less 

 hollow along internodes and solid at nodes. Leaves alternate, vary- 

 ing from simple to trifoliate or to multipinnate (tropical Aralias) or 

 passing by telescoping into compound-palmate. Leaves serrate 

 margined and along with stem they develop volatile oil, resin and 

 gum contents in secretion reservoirs. Inflorescence varying from a 

 raceme of umbels to a raceme and even to condensed racemose 

 umbels. Flowers regular, generally pentamerous, small, generally 

 inconspicuous, green, greenish-yellow to rarely white, usually 

 hermaphrodite but sometimes polygamous or dioecious; sepals 

 five, rarely four; petals five, rarely four, often greenish to greenish- 

 yellow, occasionally white, seldom pink in color; stamens varying 

 from indefinite to ten to commonly five, opoosite sepals, and, like 

 sepals, epigynous in insertion; anthers versatile; pistil occasionally 

 fifteen- to ten-, usually five-carpellate; ovary as many celled with one 

 or rarely two pendulous ovules in each cavity; styles distinct 

 ending in knob-shaped stigmas. Fruit a berry. Seeds albuminous. 



Official drug 



Aralia N.F. 



Unofficial 



Aralia Nudicaulis 



Part used 



Rhizome and 

 roots 



Rhizome 



Botanical origin 



Aralia racemosa 



Aralia nudicaulis 



Habitat 



Eastern Uuited 

 States and 

 Canada 



Aralia Spinosa Bark 



Ginseng 

 Panax Repens 



Root 

 Rhizome 



Eastern United 

 States and 

 Canada 

 Aralia spinosa Eastern United 



States 



Panax quinquefolium North America 

 Panax repens Japan 



