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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



milky juice. Their flowers are unisexual or hermaphroditic with six 

 or four parts to the perianth. Fruit, a samara. 



Official drug 



Ulmus 



Part used 



Inner bark 



Botanical name 



Ulmus fulva 



Family 14. Morace^ or Mulberry Family. — Mostly shrubs or 

 trees, rarely herbs, perennials, with small axillary, clustered or solitary 

 unisexual flowers, variously colored; leaves ovate with serrate margin 

 and having caducous stipules; fruit an akene enclosed by the perianth. 

 Milky juice present. 



Family 15. EuphorbiacejE or Spurge Family. — A vast group of 

 apetalous trees, shrubs, or herbs mainly natives of warm countries, 

 with milky acrid juice, normally alternate, entire leaves; fruit, a three- 

 locular capsule containing seeds with oily endosperm. Some plants 

 furnish rubber. 



Official drug 



Elastica 

 Stillingia 

 Oleum Ricini 

 Oleum Tiglii 

 Unofficial 

 Cascarilla 

 Tapioca 

 Kamala 



Part used 



Concrete juice 

 Root 



Volatile oil 

 Volatile oil 



Bark 



Starch 



Hairs of capsule 



Botanical name 



Hevea species 

 Stillingia sylvatica 

 Ricinus communus 

 Croton tiglium 



Croton eluteria 

 ManUiot utilissima 

 Mallotus philipinensis 



The Chloripetalas (Polypetalae) 



Flowers have both calyx and corolla, the latter being composed of 

 distinct petals. 



Family 16. Magnoliace^ or Magnolia Family. — Trees and 

 shrubs having alternate leaves and single large flowers with calyx and 

 corolla colored alike. Sepals and petals deciduous, anthers adnate. 

 Pistils and stamens numerous. Bark aromatic and bitter. 



Official drug 

 Oleum anisi 



Part used 

 Volatile oil 



Botanical name 

 lUicium verum 



