Batis.] BATIDEAR, 381 
stigmatic lobes. Fruit enclosed in the globular, succulent perianth and 
bracts, its pericarp cartilaginous. Seed vertical. Embryo spiral, with little 
or no albumen. — Stems twining. Leaves alternate, flat but succulent. 
Flowers in le or branched spikes. 
A small tropical Asiatic genus. 
71. B. rubra, L. — DC. Prod. XIII, Sect. II, p. 222. — An herbaceous 
twiner of considerable length, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, broadly ovate, 
about 2‘long. Spikes axillary, pedunculate, simple, 2—3‘ long. Flowers 
about 1, pale red, at first closely set, but becoming distant as the spike 
lengthens. Berries (or fruiting chance i dark purple, very juicy, about 
3” in diam. — Benth. FI 
ongk. p. 283. 
Of early introduction and now naturalized in a few places, Nat. name: «Inika» (ink). 
Orper LXXII. BATIDEAE. 
Ohuiwctae of the single genus. 
1. BATIS, L. 
Flowers dioecious, amentaceous, naked. Male fl. Stamens 4, alternating 
with as man craps scales (petals, Torrey), enclosed in a bifid 
delicate involucre (calyx, rrey) and inserted on the base of an‘orbicular 
ract. Item. fl. Semi- scab in the fleshy axis, without involucre, 
Supported by a single bract. Ovary 4-celled, crowned by a 2-lobed 
stigma; a single erect anatropous ovule in each cell. Fruit fleshy, con- 
Sisting of the united ovaries and the rhachis. Endocarp coriaceous. Seed- 
coat membranous. Embryo nearly straight, without albu — Suffru- 
ticose marsh-plants with opposite fleshy leaves. Catkins silos pttacHieil, 
. ae terminal. — Torrey, in Smithsonian Contributions, 1853, 
VI, p 
A i. of probably a single species. 
Tl. B. maritima, L. — A. DC. Prod. XVII, 35. — A low diffuse un- 
dershrub with the young branches erect, 2—3 ft. long. Leaves fleshy, 
oblong - linear, about 1‘ long, flat aboye, convex underneath. Stipules none. 
Catkins considerably eds than their leaves. Stamens exserted; anther- 
cells discreet, subglobose, yellowish. Fem. catkins shorter than the male, 
quadrangular, made up of about 12 pistils in 4 rows, in fruit nearly 1° 
long, often bicornute at the top, the horns® being formed by the two 
‘fap gs ovaries. Mann, Enum, no. 415, — Wawra, in Flora, 
1875, p. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. tab. 246. — Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. p. 61. 
The piaa < was first discovered by the writer in 1859 in the rspsongesapie of Prison Island, 
hear Honolulu, and has since extended to Fisherman’s point a ee ee island, 
where it grows pr Lycium Sandwicense, a ora much like i it in appea’ 
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