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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Official drug 
Part used 
Botanical name 
Habitat 
Tamarindus N.F. 
Pulp of fruit 
Tamarindus indica 
Tropical Africa 
Copaiba 
Oleoresin 
Copaiba species 
South America 
Chrysarobinum 
Neutral principle 
Vouacapoua 
Araroba 
Brazil 
Physostigma 
Seed 
Physostigma 
Africa 
^venenosum 
Kino 
Inspissated juice 
Pterocarpus 
Marsupium 
India and Ceylon 
Scoparius N.F. 
Tops 
Cytisus scoparius 
Europe 
Trifolium N.F. 
Inflorescence 
Trifolium pratense 
United States 
Galega N.F. 
Flowering tops 
Galega officinalis 
Southern Europe 
Baptisia N.F. 
Roots 
Baptisia tinctoria 
Eastern United 
States and 
Canada 
Krameria triandra 
Peru and Bolivia 
Krameria Ixina 
United States of 
Krameria N.F. 
Root 
Krameria argentea 
Colombia, Brazil 
Brazil 
Unofficial 
Foenum graecum 
Seed 
Trigonella 
Mediterranean 
Foenum-graecum 
region 
Piscidia 
Bark 
Piscidia Erythrina 
West Indies 
Indigo 
Coloring matter 
Indigofera tinctoria 
India 
Melilotus 
Leaves and flower¬ 
Melilotus officinalis 
Europe 
ing tops 
Soy Bean 
Seeds 
Glycine hispida 
United States and 
Europe 
Abrus 
Seeds 
Abrus precatorious 
Tropics and sub¬ 
tropics 
Catechu 
Extract 
Acacia Catechu 
India 
Mucuna 
Hairs from fruits 
Mucuna pruriens 
East and West 
Indies 
XV. Order Geraniales (Gruinales). —Geraniacece or Geranium 
Family. —Herbaceous, rarely semi-succulent sub-shrubby plants. 
Stems cylindrical, often hairy or glandular hairy. Leaves alternate 
to opposite, stipulate; venation from pinnate to palmate, so leaf 
shape from ovate to pinnatifid to pinnatipartite to sub-palmatifid to 
palmatipartite to compound palmate. Inflorescence either a diche- 
sial or scorpioid cyme. Flowers regular pentamerous {Geranium) 
