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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



often handsome, flowers with five monadelphous stamens. It embraces 

 five tribes, 27 genera, and 235 species, all tropical or sub-tropical. 



Part used 



Ferment 

 Rhizome 



Unoflftcial drug 

 Papain 

 Passiflora 



Botanical name 



Carica papaya 

 Passiflora incarnata 



Family 36. Menispermace^, or Moonseed Family. — Chlori- 

 petalous woody, climbing tropical plants with alternate simple leaves; 

 flowers green to white; fruit a one-seeded succulent drupe. They 

 usually contain tonic, narcotic or poisonous bitter principles. 



Family 37. Myrtace^ or Myrtle Family. — Evergreen trees or 

 shrubs of warmer climates, with opposite, entire exstipulate leaves of an 

 elliptical shape and having a vein running close to the margin. All the 

 organs provided with roundish glands containing hydrocarbon prin- 

 ciples, giving them an aromatic odor. Flowers with imbricate calyx 

 lobes, numerous stamens and an inferior ovary. 



Oflficial drug 



Eucalyptus 



Eucalyptol 



Caryophyllus 



Eugenol 



Pimenta 



Unofficial 



Myrcia 



Part used 



Leaves 



Organic oxide 

 Flower bud 

 Aromatic phenol 

 Fruit 



Volatile oil and leaves 



Botanical name 



Eucalyptus globulus 

 Eucalyptus globulus 

 Eugenia aromatica 

 Eugenia aromatica 

 Pimenta officinalis 



Myrcia acris 



Family 38. Polygalace^. — A family of polypetalous herbs, 

 shrubs, or rarely small trees — the milkwort family — having alternate 

 simple entire leaves and irregular hypogynous flowers with four to eight 

 diadelphous or monadelphous stamens. 



Official drug Part used Botanical name 



Senega Root Polygala Senega 



Family 39. Rutace^ or Rue Family. — A family of pellucid, 

 punctate, polypetalous woody plants, rarely herbs having exstipulate 

 opposite, simple or compound leaves and variously shaped inflorescences 



