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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



pod or berry. Chiefly temperate or 

 albuminous matter. 



cold climates. Seeds contain 



Family 20. Leguminos^e. — A vast family of polypetalous herbs, 

 shrubs and trees — the bean family — with alternate, stipulate, usually 

 compound leaves and papilionaceous or sometimes regular flowers, with 

 usually 10 monadelphous, diadelphous, or rarely distinct stamens, and 

 a simple pistil becoming generally a legume in fruit. It embraces three 

 well-marked groups, 24 tribes, 427 genera, and 7000 species. 



Botanical name 

 Acacia Senegal and other species 

 Astragalus gummifer and other 



species 

 Toluifera pereirae 

 Tolnifera Balsamum 

 Hasmatoxylon campechianum 

 Pterocarpus santalinus 

 J Glycyrrhiza glabra 

 Glycyrrhiza glandulifera 

 Cassia acutifolia 

 \ Cassia angustifolia 

 Cassia fistula 

 Tamarindus indica 

 Copaiba species 

 Vouacapoua araroba 

 Physostigma venenosum 

 Pterocarpus Marsupium 

 Cytisus Scopajius 



Trigonella foenum-grascum 

 Piscidia erythrina 

 Indigofera tinctoria 

 Tritolium pratense 

 Dipteryx odorata 



