ZYGOPHYLLACEyE 



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of perfect, five-parted flowers; fruit a capsule or berry. The plants 

 contain ethereal oils in their intracellular cavities. 



Official drug 



Aurantii Dulcis Cortex 

 Aurantii Amari Cortex 

 Limonis Cortex 

 Limonis Succus 



Pilocarpus 



Buchu (short) 



Xanthoxylum 



Part used 

 Outer rind of ripe fruit 

 Rind of unripe fruit 

 Outer rind of ripe fruit 

 Fresh juice of ripe fruit 



Leaflets 



Leaves 



Bark 



Botanical name 



Citrus Aurantium 



Citrus vulgaris 



Citrus Limonum 



Citrus Limonum 

 / Pilocarpus Jaborandi 

 \ Pilocarpus microphyUus 



Barosma betulina 

 / Xanthoxylum americanum 

 \ Fagara Clava-Herculis 



Family 40. Rhamnace^ or Buckthorn Family. — Chloripetalous 

 shrubs or smaU trees of warm temperate regions with spiny stems, simple 

 leaves, small regular flowers, and fleshy winged drupaceous fruit. 



Family 41. TuRNERACEiE. — ^An order of polypetalous herbs or 

 shrubs — the turnerad family — mainly American, having alternate 

 simple or pinnalified leaves, and axillary solitary or few-clustered perfect 

 flowers with five stamens. There are six genera and 85 species. 

 Turnera, the type genus, furnishes a number of ornamental greenhouse 

 plants and the drug damiana. 



Unofficial 

 Damiana 



Part used 



Botanical name 



Leaves 



Turnera diffusa variety aphrodisiaca 



Family 42. Simarubace^. — A family of very bitter poljrpetalous 

 trees or shrubs — the quassia family — having alternate pinnate leaves 

 and small dioecious flowers in axillary panicles or racemes. It embraces 

 33 genera and no species, all natives of warm countries. 



Official drug 



Part used 



Quassia 



Wood 



Botanical name 

 / Picrasma excelsa 

 \ Quassia amara 



Family 43. Zygophyllace^. — A family of polypetalous shrubs or 

 herbs — the bean-caper family — having jointed branches, two-foliolate 

 or pinnate stipulate leaves, and axillary peduncles bearing white, red, 



