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PHYTOLACCACEÆ. : 
Rivina octandra’ are used in St. Domingo to hoop casks. Those 
of Seguiera (?) asiatica® are used also as bands in Cochin China. 
Several species of this group are oleraceous and alimentary. In 
Mexico the leaves of Zhelygonum are eaten as Spinach, as are also 
those of Phytolacca octandra ; those of P. esculenta,’ as Asparagus in 
the United States, and in the Himalayas the shoots of P. decandra 
and acinosa are used in the same way. P. decandra and several 
beautiful species of the section Pircunia,’ such as P. dioica, stricta, 
are cultivated.as ornamental plants. rc//a volubilis serves to grace 
the walls of our greenhouses, and several Aivinas are ornamental by 
their coloured leaves and scarlet berries. 

1 L., Spec., 177, n. 1.—Moeg., Prodr., 11, n. 2 See p. 38, note 2; 47, uote 1. 
2.—R. dodecandra Jaca.—R. scandens Mixx. 3 V. Hourrer, Fi. des Serr., iv. (1848), 3986 
—R. Mutisii W.—R. Ehrenbergiana Kt.—R. —Mog., Prodr., 460. 
Moritziana Ku. (vulg. Liane à barils, in the 4 Vulg. Bel. ombra, Bel sombra. 
Antilles ; Guacomaya, in Columbia). 
