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3-6 celled and each cell has 2 pendulous ovules. The fruit is a one- 
seeded nut. The cup, or cupule, in the beech is 4 sided and covered 
externally wth weak spines and encloses two 3 sided seeds. The 
cupule in the chestnut forms the spiny bur, which splits into 4 valves 
at maturity, enclosing 3 nuts. The cupule in the oak is saucer, or 
cup-shaped, and encloses a single rounded nut, or acorn. The seeds 
are exalbuminous and the cotyledons are thick and fleshy, edible in 
the beech, chestnut and a few of the oaks. 
Official drug Part used Botanical name Habitat 
Galla Excrescence Quercus infectoria Europe 
Castanea N.F. Leaves Castanea dentata North America 
Quercus N.F. Bark Quercus alba North America 
VI. Order Urticales.— Ulmacece or Elm Family. —Forest trees 
indigenous to the temperate and tropical zones, charcterized by 
being woody plants, with pinnately-veined leaves and caducous 
stipules and without milky juice. Their flowers are unisexual or 
hermaphroditic with six or four parts to the perianth. Fruit a 
samara. 
Official drug Part used Botanical name Habitat 
Ulmus Inner bark Ulmus'fulva United States 
and Canada 
Moracece or Mulberry Family. —Mostly shrubs or trees, rarely 
herbs, perennials, many of them containing a milky juice, with 
small axillary, clustered or solitary unisexual flowers, variously 
colored; leaves ovate with serrate margin and having caducous 
stipules; fruit an akene enclosed by the perianth. 
Habitat 
| Asia 
Persia 
( Europe, Asia 
\ North America 
. VII. Order Santalales.— Santalacece or Sandalwood Family .— 
Herbs, shrubs or trees having entire exstipulate leaves, greenish 
Official drug 
Cannabis 
Ficus N.F. 
Humulus 
Part used 
Flowering tops of 
pistillate plant 
Fruit 
Strobile 
Botanical name 
Cannabis sativa 
Cannabis sativa 
var. indica 
Ficus Carica 
Humulus lupulus 
Lupulinum N.F. Glandular trichome Humulus lupulus 
