Scientific and applied pharmacognosy intended for the use of students in pharmacy, as a hand book for pharmacists, and as a reference book for food and drug analysts and pharmacologists . A. Ph. A.,1915, 4, p. 1458. Nux Vomica.—The dried, ripe seeds of Strychnos Nux vomica(Fam. Loganiacese), a small tree native of the East Indies and alsofound growing in the forests of Ceylon, on the Malabar Coast and innorthern Australia. The fruit is a kind of berry with from three tofive seeds, which are freed from the bitter pulp by washing, and driedbefore exportation. The seeds are also known as Quaker B
Scientific and applied pharmacognosy intended for the use of students in pharmacy, as a hand book for pharmacists, and as a reference book for food and drug analysts and pharmacologists . A. Ph. A.,1915, 4, p. 1458. Nux Vomica.—The dried, ripe seeds of Strychnos Nux vomica(Fam. Loganiacese), a small tree native of the East Indies and alsofound growing in the forests of Ceylon, on the Malabar Coast and innorthern Australia. The fruit is a kind of berry with from three tofive seeds, which are freed from the bitter pulp by washing, and driedbefore exportation. The seeds are also known as Quaker Buttons. Description.—Orbicular, compressed, concavo-convex, sometimesirregularly bent, margin acute or rounded, 17 to 30 mm. in diameter,3 to 5 mm. in thickness; externally grayish-yellow or grayish-green,covered with long hairs giving the seed a satiny luster, sometimes 522 SCIENTIFIC AND APPLIED PHARMACOGNOSY with adhering dark-brown fragments of the fruit pulp, hilum nearthe center of one side, and a more or less distinct ridge resembling araphe extending from it to the micropyle; very hard when dry, toughwhen damp; internally whitish, horny, endosperm in two more or less. Fig. 220.—Original packages of Nux Vomica imported from India,photograph by Parke, Davis & Co. -After a regular concavo-convex halves, embryo small, situated near themicropyle, and with two heart-shaped cotyledons; inodorous; tasteintensely and persistently bitter. Inner Structure.—The epidermal cells of the seed-coat are thick-walled, very porous and are developed into long hairs, attaining a NUX VOMICA 523 length of 1 mm., the walls being nearly straight, strongly lignifiedand marked by longitudinal pores or folds; an inner layer of darkbrown completely collapsed parenchyma cells, which in the vicinityof the raphe are somewhat turgid and enclose a fibrovascular bundle;the cells of the endosperm are of two kinds, those near the outersurface being more or less rectangular, the walls swelling but sl
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