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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
alternate, simple to lobed (either pinnately or more often palmately) 
to compound-pinnate or palmate. Perfect graded series of lanceo¬ 
late leaves with pinnate veining to palmate veining; from pinnately 
veined to compound-pinnate; from palmately veined to compound- 
Fig. 213 .—Rhamnus frangula —Branch. (Sayre.) 
palmate. Stipules greenish to membi'anous or none. Flowers in 
racemes of compressed cymes, hermaphrodite or diclinous, nearly 
always small, clustered, green to greenish-yellow or greenish-white, 
rarely otherwise; sepals five, rarely four, small to minute (mere 
rim of receptacle) more or less persistent. Petals five, deciduous to 
