458 PHYTOLACCACE& (Hill). [ Phytolacca. 
4-1 ft. long; rhachis pubescent ; pedicels erect-patent, as long as 
or longer than the flowers; bracts minute, lanceolate, greenish ; 
flowers hermaphrodite ; 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 ; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. vi. i. 97; Walter in Engl. Pflanzenr. iv. 83, 42, fig. 15. 
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; Heimerl in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iii. lp, 11; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 209, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 
175; Wood, Natal Pl. t. 263; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 
Append. ii. 164, not of Hook. & Arn. P. elongata, Salisb. Prodr. 
345. P. lutea, Marsigl. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 1, 618. P. scandens, 
Hilsenb. et Boj. ex Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 30. Pircunia 
abyssinica, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 30; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 
Aethiop. 58; var. latifolia, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 222. 
P. saponacea, Welw. Apont. 558. 
Eastern Region: Natal; between Umzimkulu River and Umkomanzi River, 
Drége! Inanda, Wood, 949! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 130! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
3. P. americana (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 441); a herb 6-12 ft. high ; 
stems branched, grooved, smooth ; leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, slightly mucronulate, cuneate at the base, 3}—5 
in. long, 1-1? in. broad, distinctly petioled ; racemes on long 
peduncles, glabrous, many-flowered, erect or slightly drooping ; 
flowers on pedicels }-1 in. long ; bracteoles placed midway, shortly 
subulate ; perianth-lobes orbicular-ovate, obtuse, apex concave, 
greenish-white or purplish, 1-14 lin. long; stamens 10-12, equal 
in length to the perianth-lobes; fruit umbilicate, syncarpous ; 
carpels about 10; styles persistent. P. decandra, Linn. Sp. Pl. 
ed. ii. 631; Desf. Fl. Atl. i. 369; Bot. Mag. t. 931; Moquin in 
DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 32; Heimerl in Engl. & Prantl,. Pflanzenfam. 
ili. 1p, 10, fig. 2 1, M, N & fig. 3; Walter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxvii. 
Beibl. 85, 4, figs. 12-14, and in Engl. Pflanzenr. iv. 83, 52. 
P. decandra, var. acinosa, Moquin, lc. 33. P. vulgaris, Crantz, 
Instit. ii. 484. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; foot of Table Mountain, 400 ft., Bolus, 4800! 
George Div. ; near George, 650 ft., Schlechter, 2333. 
4. P. octandra (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 631); a perennial herb ; 
stems stout, erect, smooth, branched, 2-3 ft. long, grooved ; leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, cuneate at the base, 3—4 in. long, 
distinctly petioled ; racemes erect, dense, usually pubescent ; pedicels 
very short; bracteoles elongate-subulate, acute, just below and 
almost equal in length to the perianth-lobes ; flowers hermaphrodite ; 
perianth green ; lobes orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 1 lin, long ; stamens 
