Mohlana.| cvtil. PHYTOLACCACER (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 95 
inserted on a hypogynous disk ; filaments subulate, sometimes connate 
at the base; anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 
superior; carpels one or many, concrete or distinct; style none or 
short ; stigmas as many as the carpels, linear or capitate; ovules soli- 
tary, basal, with a short funicle. Fruit of one or many carpels, fleshy 
or dry. Seed erect, compressed ; testa membranous or crustaceous ; 
embryo peripheric, enclosing the albumen; cotyledons foliaceous or 
subcylindrical ; radicle long.—Shrubs or herbs, rarely trees. Leaves 
alternate, entire; stipules none or small. Flowers usually racemose, 
green or whitish, small. 
Species about 60, concentrated in tropical America. 
Carpel 1; style simple .. : A : : 3 . 1. MoHLana. 
Carpels 2 or more, anited into a 1-celled ovary; styles 2-5 . 2. Microrega. 
Carpels several, free, or united into a several-celled ovary ; 
styles free. . ; , . ; aa . 8. PHyYTOLaAcca. 
1. MOHLANA, Mart.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iti. 81. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, racemose. Perianth campanulate, oblique, 
herbaceous, cut down nearly to the base into 4 unequal oblong seg- 
ments, the lowest the largest. Stamens 4, hypogynous, not longer 
than the perianth; filaments filiform; anthers versatile, sagittate. 
Ovary globose or ovoid, 1-celled ; style short, erect ; stigma penicillate ; 
ovule sessile, amphitropous. Fruit lenticular; pericarp rather fleshy, 
adnate to the seed. Seed erect, lenticular; testa crustaceous, black, 
shining ; embryo annular, encircling the farinose albumen; cotyledons 
linear, convolute. 
Monotypic. 
1. M. nemoralis, Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 171, t. 290. An 
erect annual herb. Stems erect, slender, branched, glabrous, 3-4 ft. 
long. Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong, acute or acuminate, entire, 
membranous, up tc 6 by 2 in. Racemes moderately dense, 2-5 in. 
long, shortly peduncled ; rhachis sometimes pubescent ; pedicels erecto- 
patent, as long as the flowers; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, green, 
deciduous. Perianth obliquely campanulate, glabrous, dark green, 2 lin. 
long ; segments strongly veined in fruit. Fruit lenticular, as long as 
Mart. lc. 172. M. guineensis, Moquin, l.c. 15. M. latifolia, Moquin, 
le. 16. M. apetala, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C.174. Rivina latifolia, Lam. 
Ill. i. 324. R. apetala, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 84. 2. affnis, 
Nees et Mart. Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xi. 30. BR. inequalis, Hook. Ic. Pl. 
li.t. 130. Hilleria elastica, Vell. Fl. Flum. i. 47, t. 122; Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 900. H. secunda, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 551. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea, Thonning. Gold Coast: Assin Yan Kumassi, 
Cummins, 54! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 427! Southern Nigeria: Lagos, 
