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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Polygalacece or Milkwort Family . — Herbs or shrubs with upright, 
herbaceous to woody stems often branching profusely, the branches 
occasionally becoming geotropic or subterranean and bearing 
cleistogamous flowers. Leaves simple, often lanceolate or linear, 
exstipulate, alternate. Inflorescence a raceme, spike (. Polygala 
Senega ) or head ( P . lute a). Flowers irregular, hermaphroditic 
