484 PHYTOLACCACEAE 
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Stamens 4: style elongate: stigma capit 1. RIVINA. 
Stamens 8-16: style wanting: stigma Denicillate, 2. TRICHOSTIGMA. 
II. PHYTOLACCEA 
Large perennial herbs, Don the raceme-like Dunt ulti- 
mately opposite the leav 3. PHYTOLACCA. 
III. AGDESTIDEAE 
Vines with much- Bo stems, broad leaf-blades, and 
many-flowered panicles 4. AGDESTIS. 
1. RIVINA [Plum.] L. Relatively small often partially woody plants. 
Fowers racemose. Sepals narrow, partly enclosing the simple fruit or reflexed 
at ma Stamens 4 thers ovoi 
tyle eccentric, stout: stigma capita 
Berry red rple orange or yellow.—Four 
or 5 species of tropical and warm-temperate 
regions. 
R. humilis L. Plants 3-7 dm. tall, or 
wit ongat like stems: leaf-blades 
ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, 3-15 cm. long, 
undulate: sepals cuneate to linear-oblong, 
-2. m. long - E pem 
(ROUGE-PLANT. BABY-P R.)—Hammoeks, 
sand- d jus thickets, fren Plain, Fla. 
to T id —(W. I., Mez., C. "T 
CANY E germ known as blood- 
berry. 
2. TRICHOSTIGMA A. Rich. Shrubs with trailing, diffuse, reclin- 
ing, or climbing stems and branches. Leaf-blades broad, entire. Flowers 
er. mens 6: 
extrorse. Style wanting. Stigma tufted. 
Berry dark-eolored.—About 4 species of 
tropical America. 
1. T. octandrum (L.) H. Walt. Shru 
with diffuse, reclining, or climbing branches 
often e . long: leaf-blades ovate, elliptic, 
or oval, mostly 4-9 em. long, usually short- 
acuminate, seis long-petioled : gd 
s 4- 
; C. A., 
3. PHYTOLACCA [Tourn.] L. Relatively large or stout plants. Flow- 
ers panieulate, the panicles often raceme- ike. Sepals broad, spreading under 
the compound fruit. Stamens 5-25: anthers short, often ovoid or globose. 
Styles 5—12.—A bout 24 aes mostly tropieal.—The fruits are a favorite bird- 
