Phytolacca.| CVvitl. PHYTOLACCACER (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 97 
times connate at the base; anthers oblong, incumbent. Ovary globose ; 
carpels 6-12, free or more or less connate ; styles as many as the carpels ; 
ovules solitary, basal, campylotropous. Fruit depressed-globose, fleshy ; 
carpels free or connate. Seeds reniform, compressed, beaked or obtuse 
at the base; testa black, crustaceous, shining; embryo annular, en- 
closing the endosperm ; cotyledons semiterete ; radicle long.—Herbs or 
shrubs, rarely trees, erect or scandent. Leaves alternate, entire, petio- 
late. Flowers in dense racemes; pedicels bracteate and bibracteolate. 
Species about 10, chiefly natives of America. 
A shrubby climber, Carpels free or nearly so. . 1. P. dodecandra. 
An erect herb. Carpels united. ‘ A . 2. P. octandra. 
1. P. dodecandra, L’ Hérit. Stirp. 143, ¢. 69. A woody climber. 
Stems slender, sometimes 15-20 ft. long. Leaves alternate, ovate or 
oblong, acute, 3-4 in. long, cuneate or rounded at the base, distinctly 
petioled. Racemes dense, many-flowered, at first 3—4 in., finally 3-1 ft. 
long; rhachis pubescent ; pedicels erecto-patent, as long as or longer than 
the flowers; bracts minute, lanceolate, greenish. Perianth greenish, 
campanulate, 1-14 lin. long ; segments ovate, finally reflexed. Stamens 
10-20, much longer than the perianth. Carpels 5-8. Fruit bright 
red; pulp staining the fingers yellow; carpels about 5, not connate.— 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 901. P. abyssinica, Hoffm. in Comm. 
Goett. xii, 25, t. 2; T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 646 ; Oliv. in 
Trans, Linn. Soc. xxix. 140, and ser. 2, Bot. ii. 348 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. 
Trop. Afr. 209, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. OC. 175; Wood, Natal Pl. t. 263 ; 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 166, not of Hook. & 
Arn. Pircunia abyssinica, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 30; Schweinf. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Talla Hills; on Mount Gonkwi, Scott-Elliot, 
4827 | Elugu, Barter, 3416! Gold Coast: by the way to Larteh, Ausah, 173! 
Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Millen, 62! Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 97 ! 
Zenker, 1509 ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Geleb, Schweinfurth, 1793! Saganeiti, Schweinfurth 
§ Riva, 842! Abyssinia: Ankober, Roth! Adowa, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 333 ! 
Ghaba, Steudner, 557! near Gennia, Schimper, 131; néar Axun, Schimper, 1541! 
and without precise locality, Schimper, 986 ! Uganda: Nakuru stream, 6000 ft., 
Scott-Elliot, 6785 ! Berkeley Bay, Scott-Elliot, 7066! in gardens, Wilson, 101! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Wann, 1090! Lower Congo, Smith ! 
Angola: Golungo Alto; near Trombeta and in thin forests among the Alto Queta 
Mountains, Welwitsch, 2438 ! Pungo Andongo; between Caghay and Mutollo, Wed- 
witsch, 2439! Loando, Gossweiler, 412! Bembe, Monteiro! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: opposite Zanzibar, Last! Kiliman- 
Jaro, 6000 ft., Johnston, 106! Uluguru Mountains, Goetze, 228! Moschi, 3600 ft., 
Volkens, 1588! Karagwe, Speke & Grant, 217! Portuguese East Africa: near 
Shamo, near the mouth of the River Shire, Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasa- 
land ; Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte! Tanganyika Plateau, Whyte! Nyika Plateau, 
yte ! 
Var. apiculata, Baker & Wright. Leaves smaller, apiculate. Carpels 3-5.— 
P. abyssinica, var. apiculata, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 175. 
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