A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . Fig. 24.—a. Fruit (j>epo) of the SquirtingCucumber (^Ecballhnn Elate^unn) dischar-ging its seeds and juice, b. Transverse sectionof the fruit, c. The separated or broken-ofFstalk ( peduncle). 164 Elaterium. [Caiyci/iora-. weakest point, which is where the fruit is attached to itsstalk. General Characters.—The fruit is pendulous from the re-curved apex of a succulent tapering slightly hispid is oblong-ovoid in form, ro
A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . Fig. 24.—a. Fruit (j>epo) of the SquirtingCucumber (^Ecballhnn Elate^unn) dischar-ging its seeds and juice, b. Transverse sectionof the fruit, c. The separated or broken-ofFstalk ( peduncle). 164 Elaterium. [Caiyci/iora-. weakest point, which is where the fruit is attached to itsstalk. General Characters.—The fruit is pendulous from the re-curved apex of a succulent tapering slightly hispid is oblong-ovoid in form, rounded at the base, and crownedat the apex by the withered remains of the flower; from oneand a half to more than two inches long, firm, yellowish-green, and covered with short pale fleshy processes termina-ting in hair-like white points {fig. 24, a). The pericarp isthick, fleshy, white within, and filled with a watery juice, inwhich numerous somewhat oblong seeds are immersed {, b). 2. Elaterium. Elaterium. Synonym.—Extractum Elaterii. Preparation.—As the juice immediately surrounding theseeds is the most active part of the fruit, the finest e
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