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BOTANY AND PHARMACOGNOSY. 



externally dark brown, coarsely reticulate, apex with remains of 

 3 to 4 stigmas ; pericarp about 0.3 mm. thick ; internally light 

 brown, smooth, oily, i-locular, i -seeded; seed atropous, broadly 



Fig. 249. A panicled <:luster of Rhus glabra fruits. 



ovoid, 4 to 5 mm. in diameter, reddish-brown, straight, mostly 

 smooth on one side where it lies against the pericarp, chalazal end 

 with a broad scar, micropyle with a slight depression, a small 



