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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Fig. 143. — Podophyllum peltatum. Entire plant, above ground portion, and 
fruit. Note the flowering stems bearing in each instance two one-sided leaves 
and a nodding flower from the fork. This plant also sends up from its rhizome 
flowerless stems each of which terminates in a 7-9 lobed peltate leaf. 
Official drug 
Part used 
Botanical name 
Habitat 
Calumba 
Root 
Jateorhiza 
palmata 
East Africa 
Pareira N.F. 
Root 
Chondodendron 
tomentosum 
Peru and Brazil 
Cocculus N.F. 
Unofficial 
Fruit 
Anamirta cocculus 
Asia 
Menispermum 
Rhizome and roots 
Menispermum 
canadense 
United States and 
Canada 
