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Powder

Powdered Anise is grey, greenish-brown or yellowish-brown in color
with characteristic sweet agreeable and aromatic odor and taste. It is characterized
microscopically by:

1. Numerous warty simple hairs conical and curved with thick walls, bluntly,
pointed a spices and finely warty cuticle.
2. Fragments of pericarp with yellowish-brown comparatively narrow
branching vittae, usually crossed by the cells of the endocarp.
3. Numerous almost colorless fragments of endosperm cells with thick
cellulosic
walls and containing fixed oil globules and aleurone grains containing
micro- rosette crystals of calcium oxalate with a minute air bubble.
4. Few fibers and very scanty pitted parenchyma.
5. Fragments of epidermis of epicarp formed of polygonal cells with striated
cuticle and anomocytic stomata.

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