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bottom of the perianth, as many or twice as many as the 
perianth-segments or more numerous. Ovary of many 1- 
celled carpels, forming a whorl on the receptacle; styles 
attached to the inner face of the carpel, recurved, stigmatose 
on the inner face ; ovules solitary, basifixed. Fruit of niany free 
or connate drupes berries nuts or utricles. Seeds with usually 
copious floury albumen, round which the embryo is curved. 
—Herbs shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, entire. 
Stipules present or 0. Flowers usually spiked or racemose. 
1. PHYTOLACCA, Linn. 
Flowers 3-bracteate. Perianth herbaceous or petaloid, as- 
cending or reflexed. Stamens 5-30, on a fleshy disk. Carpels 
5-12, free or connate. Fruit of numerous small, flesh 
drupes, together forming a berry.—DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p.31; 
Pircunia, p. 29. 
Herbs shrubs or rarely trees, with spiciform racemes of greenish flowers. 
1 species, native of the Orange and Caledon rivers. 
Orper C. CHENOPODIES. 
Calyx 5-(rarely 4—2-)parted or cleft, herbaceous, often 
changing in fruit, imbricate in bud. Stamens inserted in the 
base of the perianth, as many as its segments and opposite 
them, rarely fewer. Ovary single, free, or nearly so, 1-celled ; 
ovule solitary, attached to the base of the cell, sessile or on a 
basal cord’; styles 2-4, terminal, more or less united ; stigmas 
divergent. Fruit with a membranous pericarp, enclosed in 
the more or less altered, persistent calyx. Seed horizontal or 
vertical, erect or inverted ; embryo either curved round floury 
albumen, or, in the exalbuminous genera, spiral.—Herbs or 
halfshrubs, with (mostly) alternate, exstipulate leaves, and 
minute, green flowers. Many are found by the seashore or in 
salt ground, others by roadsides and in rubbish. None are 
poisonous. Many contain large quantities of carbonate of 
soda. 
* Stems not jointed, leafy ; leaves expanded, pe- 
tioled. 
Flowers bisexual, ebracteate; ovary depressed ; 
seed horizontal. . . . 1. Cuenoroprum, 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious ; the females 
bracteate ; seed erect. 
Female flowers with a minute, 3-5-parted 
calyx ; fruit subglobose . Hee) ee 
Female flower without calyx ; fruit com- 
pressed. 
Bracts in fruit dilated, appressed, erect. 3. ATRIPLEX. 
2. Exomis. 
