TAXONOMY 
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Unofficial drug 
Cydonium 
Rosa Centifolia 
Rosa Canina 
Tormentilla 
Part used 
Seed 
Petals 
Spurious Fruit 
Rhizome 
Botanical name 
Cydonia vulgaris 
Rosa centifolia 
Rosa canina 
Potentilla 
silvestris 
Habitat 
Cultivated widely 
Western Asia 
Europe 
Europe and Asia 
Fig. 199 .—Prunus domeslica —Fruiting branch and flowering branch. (Sayre.) 
Leguminosce or Pea Family (Fabacece ).—Herbs, shrubs or trees 
of all regions, with tubercled roots. Stem usually erect, rarely 
creeping ( Trifolium repens). Leaves alternate, compound—rarely 
simple—stipulate, sometimes tendriliform or reduced to phylloid 
petioles {Acacia sp.). Inflorescence a raceme, at times, condensed 
almost to a head or capitulum (Sp. of clover, Mimosa, etc.). Flowers 
pentamerous (rarely four), regular {Mimosece), to irregular {Ccesal- 
pinece, Papilionacece). Sepals five united, green; petals five (rarely 
four) variously related, in Papilionaceae one superior, external, pos¬ 
terior—standard or vexillum, two lateral forms wings or alae, two 
inferior internal and anterior slightly adherent form keel. Stamens 
