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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
bicarpellate, syncarpous, embryologically two-celled with two ovules 
in each cavity, but dorsal ingrowths divide ovary by time of flowering 
into four cells with one ovule in each cavity; style gynobasic. Fruit 
typically four-nutlets. Seeds solitary in each cavity and either 
scantily albuminous ( Heliotropes ) or exalbuminous (Borraginece). 
Pig. 228. —Hyoscyamus niger —Flowering branch. (Sayre.) 
Unofficial Part used 
Symphytum Root 
(Comfrey) 
Cynoglossum Herb and root 
(Hound’s tongue) 
Alkanet Root 
Botanical origin Habitat 
Symphytum officinale Europe and 
United States 
Cynoglossum United States 
officinale 
Alkanna tinctoria So. Europe and Asia 
Solanaceoe or Nightshade Family .—Stem herbaceous, rarely shrubby 
or arborescent, frequently with bicollateral bundles. Leaves alter- 
