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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



bicarpellate, syncarpous, embryologically two-celled with two ovules 

 in each cavity, but dorsal ingrowths divide ovary by time of flowering 

 in to four cells with one ovule in each cavity; style gynobasic. Fruit 

 typically four-nutlets. Seeds solitary in each cavity and either 

 scantily albuminous (Heliotropes) or exalbuminous (Borraginea) . 



PIG. 228. Hyoscyamus niger Flowering branch. (Sayre.) 



Unofficial Part used Botanical origin Habitat 



Symphytum officinale Europe and 



Symphytum 



(Comfrey) 

 Cynoglossum 



(Hound's tongue) 

 Alkanet Root 



'Root 

 Herb and root 



United States 

 United States 



Cynoglossum 

 officinale 

 Alkanna tinctoria So. Europe and Asia 



Solanacea or Nightshade Family. Stem herbaceous, rarely shrubby 

 or arborescent, frequently with bicollateral bundles. Leaves alter- 



