CLXXVIII. PHYTOLACCE^E. 



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PhyMacca. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



Phytolacca decandra. 



Seed, entire and cut vertically 

 (mag.). 



AcJiatocarpits. 

 9 flower (mag.). 



Achatocarpus. 

 Pistil cut vertically (mag.). 



Achatocarpus. 

 Fruit cut vertically. 



solitary and sub-excentric, distinct or more or less coherent, seated on an incon- 

 spicuous gynophore, or fixed to a central column, 1-celled; styles ventral, distinct 

 or rarely coherent at the base, tips recurved and stigmatiferous on their inner surface ; 

 ovules usually solitary, basifixed, campylotropous or rarely semi-anatropous. FRUIT 

 a berry, utricle, coccus, nut or samara. SEED erect ; testa membranous or crusta- 

 ceous, usually shining and fragile. EMBEYO sometimes annular or arched, peri- 

 pheric, surrounding a copious floury albumen with flat large or narrow and unequal 

 cotyledons, the edges of the outer closing round the inner ; sometimes straight, with 

 foliaceous convolute cotyledons and little or no albumen ; radicle inferior. 



