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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
XIX. Order Parietales (Ovaries of flower have parietal placen¬ 
tas.)— Theacece or TeaFamily ( Ternstrcemiacece,Cammeliacece) .—Ever¬ 
green shrubs or low branching or tall, often heavy trees with watery 
juice. Leaves for the most part alternate, evergreen, often leathery, 
sometimes membranous; stipules either bud scales and caducous 
or often absent; leaf margins sinuate or serrate ( Thea ). Inflores¬ 
cence a raceme becoming by condensation terminal, one-flowered. 
Flowers regular, perfect, pentamerous; sepals five, rarely four to 
three, deciduous, occasionally subtended by bracteolar scales; petals 
five, brittle and succulent varying from greenish-white or greenish- 
yellow through yellow to white or, from whitish pink to pink, scarlet, 
crimson, very rarely a tendency toward purple; stamens typically 
five but, as they grow, they subdivide into staminal leaflets, so that 
in their mature condition they are apparently indefinite and mono- 
to polyadelphous; stamens inserted hypogynously or perigynously 
and opposite the petals; pistil of typically five syncarpous carpels but 
reduced in some species~to four to three or two. Fruit usually a cap¬ 
sule {Thea), five- to three-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, more 
rarely a fleshy, semi-baccate, semi-drupaceous indehiscent fruit. 
Seeds with scanty or no albumen and often attached to inner angle 
of cells by projecting spongy placentae. 
Official drug Part used Botanical origin Habitat 
Caffeina Feebly basic Thea sinensis Eastern Asia 
substance 
Unofficial 
Thea Leaves Thea sinensis var. Eastern Asia 
Bohea and viridis 
Guttiferce or Gamboge Family. —Tropical trees (< Garcinia ), rarely 
shrubs, containing resinous principles in resin canals' found in 
cortex and pith. Leaves opposite, coriaceous. Flowers dioecious, 
generally pentamerous or tetramerous with usually five stamens 
which are subdivided. Fruit a berry {Garcinia Hanburyi ), drupe 
or capsule. Seeds generally large; embryo large to huge, often 
with enlarged radicle and reduced or absorbed cotyledons. 
Official drug Part used Botanical origin Habitat 
Cambogia Gum resin 
Garcinia Hanburyi 
f Malabar coast- 
l and Travancore 
