84 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



or yellow flowers. It embraces i8 genera and no species, mainly trop- 

 ical in distribution. 



Family 44. Ternstroemiace^e. — A family of polypetalous trees 

 or shrubs — the tea or camellia family — having alternate simple leaves, 

 and often large, showy, mostly five-parted flowers with numerous 

 stamens. It embraces 41 genera and 310 species, nearly all natives 

 of the tropics. 



Official drug Part used Botanical name 



Caffeina Feebly basic principle Thea chinensis 



Family 45. Sapindace^. — A family of polypetalous trees or shrubs 

 — the soapberry family — having alternate, often evergreen, compound 

 leaves, and small unsymmetrical odorless flowers with eight stamens. 

 It embraces 122 genera, and 950 species, mainly tropical. 



Official drug Part used Botanical name 



Guarana Paste of crushed seeds Paullinia Cupana 



Family 46. Sterculiaceje. — A family of polypetalous shrubs, or 

 trees — the cola-nut or sterculia family — having usually opposite, 

 single, or three- to nine-foliate leaves and a variously shaped inflores- 

 cence of regular perfect flowers with frequently monadelphous stamens 

 having two-celled anthers. 



Family 47. Umbellieer^ or Parsley Family. — A family of 

 polypetalous herbs or shrubs characterized as follows: 



Inflorescence, an umbel (simple or compound) of small flowers, each, 

 with five petals and five stamens and ovary two-celled, inferior, calyx 

 adnate to ovary. 



Fruit, a cremocarp, consisting of two seed-like dry carpels or meri- 

 carps which often separate when fruit is ripe. Entire plants possess 

 aromatic volatile oils. 



