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974 PHYTOLACCACEAX. (POKEWEED FAMILY.) 
anther-cells distinct. Style mostly lateral: stigma many-cleft. Fruit terete or 
ribbed, smooth or glandular. Embryo straight. Cotyledons folded around the 
albumen. — Trees or shrubs, with opposite or alternate leaves, and mostly rose- 
colored flowers in corymbose cymes. 
1. P. aculeata, L. Spiny; stem smooth; branches widely spreading; 
leaves alternate, short-petioled, ovate or elliptical, acute or obtuse, smooth; 
cymes terminal, peduncled, pubescent, many-flowered ; calyx of the sterile 
flower 10-toothed ; stamens 7; fruit club-shaped, 10-striate, and beset with 5 
rows of shining viscid glands. — South Florida. — Shrub 5° high ; the spines 
short and recurved. Leaves 1'— 2! long. 
2. P. obtusata, Swartz. Smooth, spineless; leaves oblong, roundel at 
the apex, tapering at the base, short-petioled, revolute on the margins, rigid; 
cymes long-peduncled, many-flowered, the branches horizontal; fertile calyx 
5-cleft, with the lobes narrow and acute; stamens 7; fruit oblong, many-fur- 
rowed, glandless ; capsule truncate. — South Florida. — Leaves opposite, 1'-2! 
long, light brown beneath. Flowers 1"—2/]long. * 
Orprr 107. PHYTOLACCACEJE. (Poxrwrrp FAMILY) 
Herbs or shrubs, with alternate entire leaves, and apetalous 3-bracted 
racemed or spiked flowers. — Calyx composed of 4 — 5 nearly equal sepals, 
more or less united at the base, unchanged in fruit. Stamens hypogynous; 
as many as the sepals and alternate with them, or numerous, free, or 
united at the base ; sterile ones none: anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary 
simple or compound. Ovules amphitropous or campylotropous, solitary, 
erect. Styles as many as the ovaries. Fruit of 1- many carpels. Albu- 
men copious or none. eds annular, rarely straight. Radicle inferior. 
Synopsis. 
Susorper I. PETIVERIEJE. Fruit simple. Cotyledons convolute. 
Leaves stipulate. 
l. PETIVERIA. Fruitan achenium with reflexed spines at the apex. Embryo straight m 
scanty albumen. i 
2. RIVINA. Fruita berry. Embryo forming a ring around the albumen, 2m d 
SusonpER IL. PHYTOLACCEZEK. Fruit AME: Cotyledor i 
flat. Leaves exstipulate. a. 
3. PHYTOLACCA. Fruit a berry, EE sapendo m AMA 
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1. PETIVERIA, Plum. 
Calyx S-bracted, 4-parted, herbaceous. Stamens 4-8: anthers linear — 
E cd simple, vaia Ovule single, erect, shphiteppoás. nee "rs 
