434 ON SEEDLINGS 



Leaves simple, entire, cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, 

 alternately incurvinerved, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, mem- 

 branous, smelling strongly of garlic ; stipules small. 



Nos. 1-3. Very much like the entire cotyledon, only larger, 4- 

 5 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. wide ; apex oblique ; margin sinuate. 



Phytolacca pruinosa, Fenzl. 



Pistil apocarpous or very nearly so, of six to eight carpels, each 

 one-celled, one-ovuled ; ovules erect, campylotropous ; micropyle 

 inferior. 



Fruit baccate, of six to eight juicy carpels arranged in a whorl, 

 slightly united by their bases laterally but not in the centre, gla- 

 brous, deep black, shining. 



Seed reniform, vertical, somewhat compressed laterally, with a 

 hard, crustaceous, deep black and shining testa, glabrous, unequal 

 at the base the smaller auricle containing the radicle, the larger 

 the cotyledons ; hilum basal in the notch ; micropyle close to it. 



Endosperm central, floury, loose, white. 



Embryo much curved, peripheral, not so white as the endosperm 

 which it encloses, comparatively large ; cotyledons linear, obtuse, 

 semiterete, plano-convex, placed with their backs to the axis, and 

 their edges to the compressed sides of the seed ; radicle cylindrical, 

 obtusely pointed, about half as long as the cotyledons. 



Phytolacca acinosa, Boxb. 



Fruit of six to eight one-seeded, baccate, drupe-like carpels. 



Seed oblong, 3-4 mm. long, laterally compressed ; testa smooth, 

 shining, black, crustaceous ; hilum rather conspicuous. 



Endosperm rather copious, white, farinaceous, surrounded by 

 the embryo. 



Embryo curved, lying round the endosperm, colourless ; coty- 

 ledons linear, obtuse, entire, closely adpressed, lying the narrow way 

 of the seed, with their faces to the axis ; radicle terete, obtuse, in- 

 cumbent, shorter than the cotyledons. 



Phytolacca abyssinica, Ho/m. (fig. 618). 



Hypocotyl 1-2 cm. long, 2 or 3 mm. thick, terete, glabrous, 

 reddish, succulent. 



Cotyledons shortly stalked, nearly equal, 3-5 cm. long, 1*5-2 cm. 

 wide, lanceolate-ovate, acute and produced at the base, subacute at 

 the apex, entire, with sunk midrib, obscurely penninerved, gla- 

 brous, fleshy but not thick, yellowish-green ; petiole 1 cm. long, 

 2-3 mm. wide, stout, channelled. 



