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B. Dried. 
In quarters or in ribbon-like bands, 
Aurantii Amari Cortex 
2. Pulp. 
Blackish-brown masses or cakes Tamarindus 
3. Secreting Hairs. 
A glandular powder Lupulinum 
ANISUM (Anise). 
The ripe fruit of Pimpinella Anisum (Fain. Umbellif- 
erse), an annual herb indigenous to Asia Minor, Egypt 
and Greece, and cultivated in South America, Ger- 
many, Spain, Italy and Southern Russia. The drug 
is derived from cultivated plants, and that obtained 
from Spain, and known as “Alicante Anise,” is pre- 
ferred. 
Description. — Mericarps usually coherent and at- 
tached to a slender pedicel 4 to 10 mm. long; cremo- 
carp ovoid, laterally compressed, 4 to 5 mm. long, about 
2 mm. in diameter, externally greenish brown or gray- 
ish green, with ten yellowish filiform primary ribs, 
finely pubescent, apex with a ring-like disk and two 
projecting divergent styles about 0.5 mm. long, inter- 
nally yellowish brown, with a slender carpophore at- 
tached to each mericarp, the latter in section irregularly 
plano-convex, slightly concave on the commissural 
side and usually with two large vittse on each face, 
dorsal surface with thirty to forty vittse; seed some- 
what reniform in section, closely cohering to the peri- 
carp, with a small embryo at the upper end of the 
reserve layer ; odor and taste pleasantly aromatic. 
Constituents. — Volatile oil (1 to 3 per cent.) consist- 
ing of about 80 to 90 per cent, of anethol ; fixed oil 3 
to 4 per cent.; calcium oxalate; ash about 7 per cent. 
Russian aniseed is used chiefly for the manufacture 
of the volatile oil. 
