56o BOTANY AND PHARMACOGNOSY. 



I. Entire Fruits. — Continued. 



2. Between lo and 50 mm. long. 



A. Drupes. 



Epicarp thin and wrinkled ; sarcocarp sweet Prunum 



Epicarp coriaceous, nearly smooth; sarcocarp acrid.. .Sabal 



B. Not drupes. 



Berry Capsicum 



Capsule Cardamomum 



Strobile Humulus 



3. More than 50 mm. long. 



Berry Colocynthis 



Indehiscent legume Cassia Fistula 



Pod Vanilla 



Syconium Ficus 



II. Parts of Fruits. 



1. Outer rind. 



A. Fresh. 



From sweet oranges Aurantii Dulcis Cortex 



From lemons Limonis Cortex 



B. Dried. 



In quarters or in ribbon-like bands. .Aurantii Amari Cortex 



2. Pulp. 



Blackish-brown masses or cakes Tamarindus 



3. Glandular Hairs. 



A glandular powder Lupulinum 



ANISUM. — ANISE.— The dried, ripe fruit of Pimpinella 

 Anisuni (Fam. Umbelliferae), an annual herb (p. 352), indig- 

 enous to Asia Minor, Egypt and Greece, and cultivated in South 

 America, Germany, Spain, Italy and Southern Russia. The drug 

 is derived from cultivated plants, and that obtained from Spain, 

 and known as " Alicante Anise," is preferred. 



Description. — Mericarps usually coherent and attached to a 

 slender pedicel 4 to 10 mm. long ; cremocarp ovoid, laterally com- 

 pressed, 4 to 5 mm. long, about 2 mm. in diameter, externally 

 greenish-brown or grayish-green, with ten yellowish, filiform, pri- 

 mary ribs, finely pubescent, apex with a ring-like disk and two 

 projecting divergent styles about 0.5 mm. long; internally yel- 



