XCV, PHYTOLACCACER. 143 
oso carpel, or of several carpels either distinct or united in a ring 
und the centre of the torus or, ina genus not Australian, M a 
of the fruit beara enlarged, free or united, dry or ehh ra inde- 
hiscent or dehiscent along their inner or outer edge or both. Seed 
hdi e Sed o straight; cot undershrubs, or dud shrubs or trees, d 
glabrous. M oe usually en Flowers herm maphrodite 
or unisexual, in terminal axillary or leehveppoael spikes racemes or 
clusters, rarely SAM usually accompanied by a subtending bract and 
racte 
The Order is chi lefly American and African, a very few species extending into Asia, 
as weeds of cultivation or otherwise introduced. The E y bic EORR are all endemic, 
one of them nearly allied to, but quite oiin from poe 2 
belonging to a series (or genus in an exten sane} ezblllnyely “Australi — All have = 
unisexual flowers, whilst those of the jest and African genera are, with the excep- 
tion of a single species, ngee odite 
Ovary of a single carpel. sa it a Avie with hooked bristles. 
Flowers unisexual. Filaments p orm «1. Mowococens. 
ots of Ue carpels statied S in a ring. Fruit succulent. Flowers i 
ermaphr 
he of 2 or more carpels united round a central column. Flowers 
unisexua - Anthers sessile or near OTHECA 
Perianth deeply 4-lobed. Carpels 2. T lowers axillary . . . 2. Dmxw i 
rian ed 
* PnuYrTOLACCA. 
^ ts 8 4 to 2 ‘ sprei at their: MADERA bw opening è at diu 
e outer edge or at both outer and inner edges wers z 
S 3. GYROSTEMON. 
Carpels from above 90 to 50, separating at their maturity and and 
0 8 
mes g on the inner edge 0 nly. Flowers in spi - ae Lodobeoi nee. 
Carpels about 20, connate in a globular almost "woody in ind 
hiscent fruit. ale flowers in terminal n — 
iolitaty and axillary . . 5. Tersonia. 
ph lants in some species of each of the last fe ry aro aingilie 
Shy uh other except by slight differences in the inflore 
erry more or] . 
henna 9- or 10-mer ts and then they odi — from P. decandra, Linn., 
