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Fig. 12 1. — Sabal palmetto. This palm, which appears in the center of the 
figure, yields the official drug, sabal. In the right distance a barragona palm. 
Cuba. (Gager.) 
III. Order Arales. — Aracecc or Arum Family . — Perennial herbs 
with fleshy rhizomes or corms, and long petioled leaves, containing an 
acrid or pungent juice. Flowers crowded on a spadix, which is usu- 
ally surrounded by a spathe. Fruit a berry. Seeds with large 
fleshy embryo. 
Unofficial drug 
Calamus 
Skunk cabbage 
Indian turnip 
Part used 
Unpeeled rhizome 
Rhizome 
Corm 
Botanical 
name 
Acorus calamus 
Symplocarpus 
foetidus 
Arisaema 
triphyllum 
Habitat 
Europe, Asia, 
North America 
North America 
North America 
IV. Order Liliales. — Liliacece or Lily Family . — Herbs (Lilum), 
shrubs (Yucca), or trees ( Dracena Draco), with regular and sym- 
