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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
XVI. Order Sapindales.— Anacardiaceoe or Sumac Family .— 
Shrubs or trees producing in stems and leaves secretion contents 
that are either acrid watery or acrid opalescent or white viscid, 
viscid acrid and poisonous. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 
simple ( Rhus Cotinus), three-foliate ( Rhus toxicodendron ) or pinnate 
{Rhus glabra , R. venenata , etc.). Inflorescence frequently terminal 
and composed of racemes or cymes, often reduced to a simple raceme. 
Flowers small, clustered, green, greenish-white to greenish-yellow; 
sepals five, rarely six or four green, small; petals five smaller than 
sepals; stamens equal in number to the petals and alternate, rarely 
fewer, sometimes double in number, rarely indefinite, inserted 
hypogynously or upon an enlarged disc that surrounds or swells 
up between stamens and pistil; pistil monocarpellary more rarely 
bicarpellary, very rarely as in Spondiece of ten to five carpels, 
ovary one-celled.with single ovule. Fruit a drupe. Seeds exalbumi- 
nous with large embryo filling seed cavity. 
Official drug Part used Botanical origin Habitat 
Rhus Glabra N.F. 
Ripe fruits 
Rhus glabra 
Canada and 
United States 
Mastiche N.F. 
Unofficial 
Concrete resin¬ 
ous exudate 
Pistacia Lentiscus 
Grecian 
Archipelago 
Chinese Galls 
Excrescences 
Rhus semialata 
China 
Japanese Galls 
Excrescences 
Rhus japonica 
Japan 
Rhus Typhina 
Ripe fruits 
Rhus typhina 
United States 
Acajou Gum 
Gum 
Anacardium 
occidentale 
West Indies 
Pistachio 
Seeds 
Pistacia vera 
Western Asia 
Anacardium 
Fruit 
Anacardium 
occidentale 
West Indies 
Rhus 
Toxicodendron 
Fresh leaflets 
Rhus toxicodendron United States 
Celastraceoe or Staff Tree Family. —Shrubs {Euonymus) } or shrubby 
climbers {Celastrus).. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, en¬ 
tire or toothed. Inflorescence of axillary cymes or terminal racemes. 
Flowers perfect ( Euonymus , Pachistima ) or polygamo-dioecious 
{Cleastrus) greenish {Celastrus), greenish or yellowish-white {Euony¬ 
mus Europoeus ), greenish-purple {Euonymus americanus) to dark- 
