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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Official drug 
Sabal 
Unofficial 
Dragon’s Blood 
Cocoanut oil 
Carnauba wax 
Areca nut 
Palm oil 
Part used 
Fruit (drupe) 
Inspissated juice 
Fixed oil 
Wax from leaves 
Seed 
Fixed oil 
Botanical name 
Serenoa serrulata 
Calamus Draco 
Cocos nucifera 
Copernicia cerifera 
Areca Catechu 
Elaeis guineensis 
Habitat 
South Carolina to 
Florida 
East'Indies 
Tropics 
Brazil 
Asia and East 
Indies 
West Africa 
Fig. 165.—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. —Aracece 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 
usually surrounded by a spathe. Fruit a berry. Seeds with large 
fleshy embryo. 
