CASHEW FAMILY 



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Family 17. Rosacea. — A family of polypetalous plants — the 

 rose family — with alternate simple or compound stipulate leaves, and 

 regular flowers with usually numerous distinct stamens inserted on the 

 urn-shaped calyx. It embraces 80 genera, and nearly 2000 species, 

 found in all parts of the world. 



Trees, shrubs and a few herbs. The flowers bear comparatively 

 many petals. The fruits vary greatly and may be fleshy,, an akene, 

 berry or a drupe. Many of the fruits are edible. 



Family 18. ANACARDiACEiE, or Cashew Family. — A family of 

 chloripetalous trees or shrubs, with resinous, acrid, milky juice, alternate 

 leaves, small flowers, and a mostly drupaceous fruit. Exhalations of 

 many members frequently poisonous especially from the Rhus vene- 

 nata, and R. Toxicodendron (Poison Ivy). 



Official drug 

 Mastiche 

 Rhus glabra 



Unofficial 

 Rhus Toxicodendron 

 Rhus Aromatica 



Part used 



Resinous exudation 

 Fruit 



Leaves 

 Bark of root 



Botanical name 



Pistacia lentiscus 

 Rhus glabra 



Rhus toxicodendron 

 Rhus aromatica 



Family 19. Ranunculace^. — An order of herbaceous or woody 

 plants — the crowfoot or buttercup famUy — with radical or alternate 

 palmately veined leaves, and terminal, racemose, or panicled flower 

 clusters, the flowers regular or irregular, with all parts distinct and un- 

 connected. There are 30 genera and 1350 species. 



Medium-sized shrubs or herbs with acrid juices. Fruit is an akene. 



