374 riIYTOLACCACE.£. (POKEWKKD 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; 

 cviius terminal, peduncled, pubescent, many-flowered; calyx of the sterile 

 flower 10-toothcd; stamens?; fruit club-shaped, 10-striate, and beset with 5 

 rows of shining viscid -lands. — South Florida. — Shrub 5° high; the spines 

 short and recurved. Leaves l'-2' long. 



2. P. obtusata, Swartz. Smooth, spineless ; leaves oblong, rounded 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, l'-2' 

 long, light brown beneath. Flowers l"-2" long. 



Order 107. PHYTOLACCACEiE. (Pokeweed Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs, with alternate entire leaves, and apetalous 8-bracted 

 racemed or spiked flowers. — Calyx composed of 4 - 5 nearly equal sepals, 

 more or loss united at the base, unchanged in fruit. Stamens bypogynous, 

 as manv as the sepals and alternate with them, or numerous, tree, or 

 united at the base ; sterile ones none: anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary 

 simple or compound. Ovules amphitropous or campy lot ropous, solitary. 

 erect Styles as manv as the ovaries. Fruit of 1 -many carpels. Albu- 

 men copious or none. Embryo annular, rarely straight. Radicle inferior. 



Synopsis. 



SUBORDER! PETIYERlEiE. Fruit simple. Cotyledons convolute. 

 Leaves stipulate. 



1. I'l.i i\ i;kia. fruit mi achenium with reflexed spines at the apex. Embryo straight in 



scanty albumen. 

 •J. i:t\i\.\ Fruit a berry. Embryo forming a ring around the albumen. 



Si border II. I'lIYTnl.ACCK.E. fruit compound. Cotyledons 

 flat. I.ea\ es exstipulate. 



.'!. PHYTOLACC \. I'ruit t berry, composed of numerous carpels arranged in a circle 



1. PETIVERIA, Plum. 



Calyx S-bracted, 4-parted, herbaceous. Stamens 4-8: anthers linear. 

 Ovary simple. I -celled. Ovule Bingle, erect, amphitropous. Stigma many- 

 cleft, Achenium wedge-shaped, compressed, 2 lobed at the apex, each lobe 



