POLYGONACEAE 461 
5, surmounting the accrescent hypanthium. Stamens 8. Stigmas 3, entire. 
Achene 3-angled, included in the juicy hypanthium.—About 130 species, of 
tropical America.—The hard pod -grained wood is used in eabinet-work.—The 
flowers are green or greenish-yellow 
Leaf-blades longer than wide, narrowed at the base: fruit about c em. thick. 
C. laurifolia. 
Leaf-blades wider than long, cordate at the base: fruit 1.5—2 
em. thick. 2. C. uvifera. 
. laurifolia Jacq. Shrub or tree: leaf-blades ovate to obovate, 5-10 em. 
ee narrowed or rounded at the base: panicles less than 1 dm. long in anthe- 
sis, the lower Monee laste aen with 3 
r edicels: sepals —3.5 lon 
sh dei margin even b RN. p fila- 
ments with tooth-like staminodia: fruit 
black, in ae i. [C. floridana Meisn.] 
(P ) m on or near 
the coast, E pen. Fla. and the Keys.—(S. A.) 
—The fruits are a ‘favorite bird-food. 
2. C. uvifera (L.) J Shrub or small 
tree: leaf- bl ades ‘suborbiewla r, 420 em. 
wide, cordate at t ase: panicles over 1 
dm. long in dodi dense: sepals 2-3 mm. 
long: fruit reddish, bo in dense grape- 
like clusters. — (SEA-GRAPE. | GRAPE-TREE 
P F.) — tal hammocks and 
dunes, S pen. Fla. and the Keys.—(W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A.)—The fruits are 
used to make jelly 
OrpER CHENOPODIALES — CHENOPODIAL ORDER 
Herbs, often partially woody, or shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate 
or opposite, occasionally scale-like. Flowers mostly perfect, sometimes 
monoecious or dioecious. . Calyx usually present, the sepals mainly sep- 
arate. Corolla wanting, or present and of minute or large petals. An- 
droecium of 1-several stamens. Gynoecium of a single carpel or of sev- 
eral united carpels, the ovary mostly superior. Fruit various. 
Fruit a utricle, achene, or berry, sometimes an anthocarp, not valvate, or merely 
circumscissile. 
Fruit various, not an anthocarp. 
Fruit utricular. 
racts not scarious: stipules wanting. 
Erect or diffuse plants. 
Stamens inserted at the base of the ovary or in the margin of a 
short hypanthium. Fam. 1. CHENOPODIACEAE. ` 
Stamens inserted on the of a 
hypanthium which pari ex- 
e ec sepals in length. Fam. 2. SCLERANTHACEAE. 
Climbin Fam. 3. BASELLACEAE 
Bracts or stipule os 'Scarious. . 
ipules wanting: sepals scario Fam. 4. AMARANTHACEAE. 
Stipules present: sepals herbaceous or 
scarious-margined. Fam. 5. CORRIGIOLACEAE. 
i baccate or an achene, or aggregate. 
the ovary: stigmas ‘not penicellate. am. 6. PHYTOLACCACEAE. 
ii s present: stamens borne on the 
ins hypanthium : stigma peni- 
cella 
