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umbel. Flowers regular, pentamerous; sepals five, aposepalous 
green; petals apopetalous, varying from white to whitish-pink, 
pink scarlet, purple to bluish-purple; stamens varying from fifteen 
to five, hypogymous; pistil syncarpous of five to three, rarely fewer 
carpels. Fruit a capsule. Seeds albuminous. 
Fig. 152 . — Drosera rot undifolia. Production of a young plant from the leaf of an 
older plant. (Gager.) 
Official drug 
Drosera N.F. 
Part used 
Entire plant 
f 
Botanical origin 
Drosera rotundifolia 
Drosera intermedia 
Drosera longifolia 
Habitat 
Eastern and West- 
ern Hemispheres 
XIV. Order Rosales. — Saxifragacece or Saxifrage Family . — 
Herbs ( Saxifraga , Mitella, etc.) or shrubs ( Hydrangea , Ribes, 
Philadel phus, etc.), rich in tannin content, with opposite or alter- 
nate leaves usually devoid of stipules. Both stamens and petals are 
generally inserted on the calyx. Fruit a follicle, capsule, or berry. 
Seeds with copious albumen. 
