Pharmacognostical Characters of Dried Flowers of Nymphaea stellata Willd.

The macroscopic characters of the dried flowers, physical constant values, extractive values, behavior on treatment with different chemical reagent, fluorescence characters under ultra violet light after treatment with different chemical reagents of the dried powder of flowers of N. stellata Willd. (Nymphaeaceae) were studied to fix some pharmacognostical parameters. Preliminary phytochemical studies on different extracts of the dried flowers were also performed.