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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
elongate, tubular or irregular infundibuliform in Loniceras; stamens 
five, inserted on tube of corolla and alternating with corolla seg¬ 
ments; filaments equal or didynamous (in irregular flowers); ovary 
inferior, rarely five- to three-celled, usually three- or frequently two- 
celled; style terminal. Fruit a berry ( Viburnum ) from an inferior 
ovary, several celled, occasionally becoming one-celled with several 
to rarely one seed, or fruit a capsule ( Diervilla , Weigelia). Seeds 
albuminous. 
Official drug Part used Botanical origin 
Sambucus N.F. Flowers 
Viburnum 
Prunifolium ar 
Viburnum Opulus Bark 
N.F. 
( Sambucus canadensis 
\ Sambucus nigra 
Viburnum 
prunifolium - 
Viburnum Lentago 
Viburnum Opulus 
var. Americanum 
Habitat 
1 United States. 
/ Europe 
1 Eastern and 
\ central United 
I States 
United States 
and Canada 
VI. Order Campanulales.— 
Cucurbilacece or Gourd Family .— 
Herbaceous, very often annual 
(Colocynth , etc.), more rarely 
perennial ( Bryonia , etc.), some¬ 
times shrubby plants, the peren¬ 
nial and shrubby forms perennat- 
ing by swollen roots, some of 
which are heavy and tuberous. 
Stems very usually grooved and 
ridged, often provided with 
roughened and barbed hairs. 
Tendrils are frequently produced 
in the axils of leaves from tendril 
axillary buds (Pumpkin, Colo¬ 
cynth, Watermelon, Cucumber, 
Bryony, etc.). Leaves varying 
from entire, simple, usually del¬ 
toid to triangular through stages 
of trilobate, pentalobate, deeply palmatifid topalmatipartite to seldom 
approaching compound (Colocynth). Venation in nearly all cases 
Fig. 233. —Colocynth—Portion of 
vine and whole fruit. (Sayre.) 
