Mathewsiane, N. O. Phytolaccez. 
TAB. CXXX. 
Rivina INZQUALIS, 
Herbacea, foliis ovatis, racemis longissimis, sepalo exteriore 
longiore. 
Has. Tarapoto. Mathews, (n. 1604). 
A herbaceous plant, with alternate petiolated leaves; the 
petiole slightly downy. Racemes 4—6 inches long, erect, bear- 
ing numerous small flowers, which, as well as the fructified 
racemes, turnblackindrying. Sepals, elliptical, concave, spread- 
ing, glabrous, the outer one longer than the rest, in fruit still 
longer, when all the sepals become erect round the globose 
somewhat dry berry. Seed solitary, erect. 
Fig. 1. Flower. jf. 2. Fruit. jf 3. Included in the persistent 
Calyx. f. 4. Fruit laid open to show the seed :—magnified. 
