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Phytolacca.} PHYTOLACCE (Sond.) 157 
and “acca,” the colour called Jake; because the berries contain a red dye. The S. 
African species belong to Moquin’s genus Pircunia. 
1. P. stricta (Hoffm. in Com. Goett. 12. p. 27. t. 3); stem shrubby at 
base, ascending or erect, furrowed, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, obtuse ; 
mucronate, narrowed at base, and decurrent into a short petiole, rough- 
ish ; racemes pedunculate, the rachis furrowed ; glabrous or rough ; 
sepals herbaceous, white-edged, spreading ; stamens 7-8 ; carpels 6-7. 
P. heptandra, Retz. Pircunia stricta, Mog. in DC. 1. c. p. 30. 
Has. Between the Fish River and Fort Beaufort, Drege/ Orange River, Drege! 
Burke! Caledon River, Burke and Zeyher! Caffraria, Mrs. Barber! (Herb. Hook., 
T.C.D.). 
Stems 1-2 feet high, sub-erect. Leaves varying much in comparative length and 
breadth, 3-4 inches long and } inch wide, or 2 inches long and 1 inch wide, some- 
times ovato-lanceolate or oval. Peduncle long or short : the pedicels equalling the 
greenish flowers. Fruit blackish-purple, succulent; the calyx not refiexed. 
2. P. Abyssinica (Hoffm. in Com. Goett. 12. p.28.f£2); stem shrubby, 
climbing, terete ; leaves on long petioles, ovate or ovate-elliptical, obtuse 
at base, acute and recurvo-mucronate at the apex ; racemes much longer 
than the leaves, the rachis pubescent; pedicels longer than the flowers ;. 
calyx reflexed ; stamens 5-12 ; carpels 5-8. P. dodecandra, Herit. Strip. 
t.69. Pircunia Abyssinica, Mog. in DC. l. ¢. 
Has, Between Omsamculo and Omcomas, Drege/ Near Port Natal, Mi. Sanderson. 
(Herb. T.C.D., Hook.). 
Stem 10-20 feet high, climbing and scrambling over rocks. Leaves on long and 
slender petioles, 2 3 inches long, 1}~2 inches broad, varying from ovate to nearly 
elliptical, but always acute. Peduncles short or obsolete, raceme several inches long, 
densely flowered. Calyces strongly reflexed soon after the opening of the flower. A 
native of Abyssinia, Madagascar and the Sandwich Islands. 
OrpeR XX. MALVACEZ, Juss. 
(By W. H. Harvey.) 
(Malvacex, Juss. Gen. 271. D.C. Prod. 1. p. 429 Endl. Gen. No, 
ecix. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. No. cxxx.). pth 
Flowers regular. Calyx 5, rarely 3-4 cleft, with valvate estivation, 
usually furnished at base with involucral bracts. Petals 5, with twisted 
zstivation, diliquescent, usually attached to the base of the staminal 
column. Stamens indefinite, united into a tube, whose dilated base 
covers over the ovary ; anthers reniform, terminal, one-celled. Ovary 
of 5 or many carpels, whorled round a common axis, and either sepa- 
rable or united into a plurilocular capsule ; ovules one or several, axile; 
styles as many as the carpels. Hrwt dry or fleshy, dehiscent or inde- 
hiscent ; seeds with little or no albumen, with a curved embryo, and 
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leafy, plaited cotyledons... 
Trees, shrubs or herbs, very generally with stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, 
simple, | ; 
tly large showy, variously disposed. go 
me pee, pret rene kh and sub-tropical Order, with outlying species in the tem- — 
perate zones. The tropical species are generally ligneous, and many of them even 
nerved and often palmately lobed or parted, stipulate. Flowers 28 
