XXV. PHYTOLACCACEjE. 



1. PHYTOLACCA SERIES. 



Phytolacca) has regular flowers often hermaphrodite, with a 

 perianth sometimes petaloicl formed of five leaves quincuncially 



Phytolacca decandra. 



Fi&. 21. 

 Floriferons branch (§). 



Fig. 28. 

 Root (t^). 



imbricated, inserted upon a convex receptacle. More internally, 



1 T., Inst. 299, t. 154.— L. Gen., n. 58S.— 

 Ada>s., Warn, des PL, ii. 262. — J., Gen., 81. — 



PolE., Diet., v. 306 ; Suppl., iv. 406. — LaHK., 

 III., t. 393.— Gjertn., Fruct., i. 377, t. 77. — 



