Basella.] CXVII. CHENOPODIACEE. (J, D. Hooker.) 21 
t. 215, f£. 1; Gaertn. Carp. t. 126. B. alba, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 104 ; 
Wall. Cat: 6960; Wight Ic. t. 896; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 170; Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. FI. Suppl. 73. B. canalifolia, Ham. ; Wall. Cat. 6961. B. 
alba, L., nigra, Lour., cordifolia, Lamk., ramosa, Jacq., japonica, Burm., and 
lucida, L., Moq. l. e. 993, 224. B. ramosa, Jacg. f. Eclog. ii. 10, t. 161; : 
em hb. Hort. t: 61. B. crassifolia, Wight mss.— Rheede Hort. Mal. vii. ` 
Af Throughout INDIA, wild or cultivated, and in CEYLON.—DISTRÍB. Trop. Asia and 
rica. 
Glabrous. Leaves petioled, broadly ovate or cordate or orbicular, 2-7 in. - 
diam., narrowed into the petioles. Spikes 1-6 in., axillary, peduncled, simple or 
branched, flowers white or red. Fruit size of a pea, red white or black.—Rox- 
burgh regards two varieties of this, a red- and a green-stemmed one, as wild in India, 
and adds three cultivated sorts, a red- and a white-stemmed that are raised from 
seed, and differ only in luxuriance from the corresponding wild forms; and lastly a 
large sort, ( B. lucida, L., and cordifolia, Lamk.), which is the most cultivated, and 
pe alway 8 increased by slips; it is the largest form, covering trellises and native houses, 
and is the most succulent, and more used as a pot-herb than the others. 
Order CXVIII. PHYTOLACCACEIE. - 
Glabrous trees shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate, quite entire; stipules 
small or 0. Flowers racemed, bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Sepals 4-5, 
Imbricate in bud. Petals 0. Stamens 4, alternate with the petals, or more . 
and regularly inserted; filaments usually persistent and anthers de- 
ciduons, Carpels 1 or more, superior, free or connate, 1-ovuled; stigmas 
usually sessile and. recurved ; ovules amphitropous or campylotropous. Ripe 
carpels dry or fleshy. Seeds erect, often arillate; albumen fleshy or 
ital embryo peripheric.—Genera 20, species about 60, tropical and 
rate. ' 
M Rivina Latbenia, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6952, from Patna, erroneously cited by 
»quin under his Pircunia Latbenia, is the common South American Rivina levis, L. 
dn orientalis, Moq.), or an allied plant, no doubt cultivated at Patna. Mohlana 
j moralis, Mart.,a Brazilian and African undershrub with reticulate fruit, is naturalized 
™ Several parts of Ceylon (Trimen in Lond. Journ. Bot. xxiii. (1885) 173. 
PHYTOLACCA, Linn. 
Shrubs or herbs, rarely tr L tipulate. Flowers 1-2-sexual. 
, ees. Leaves exstipulate. 
Sepals 4, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 5-25. Carpels 5-10, free or connate, 
pea In fruit. Seeds reniform, compressed, exarillate, albumen flowy; 
, embryo annular, cotyledons slender, radicle ascending.— Species 10, tropica 
and subtropical. 
P. acinosa, R | i ; qui lab or puberulous, 
. oxb. Fl, Ind. ii. 458; quite glabrous P Á 
leaves elliptic. ovate or lanceolate acuminate narrowed into the stout petiole, 
ames shortly peduncled. Wall, Cat. 1598. P. decandra, var. B. acinosa, 
ps in DO, PI». xii, 9. 33. P. Keempferi, 4. Gray n Mem. Amer, 
ag, N. S, vi. 404, Pircunia Latbenia, Moq. l. c. 29, excl. syn. Wall. Cat. 
Boa ERATE HIMALAYA, wild or cultivated, from Hazara and Kashmir to 
» alt. 5-9000 ft. — DISTRIB. China, Japan. om ' : 
thinly >> ft., stout, herbaceous, succulent. Leaves 6-10 by 24-4 in. green, 
lancia lent, Racemes 2-6 in., erect, many-fid., rachis stout; bracts — 
membranous ; pedicels iin, Flowers j in. diam. Sepals broadly oblong, 
