PHY TOLACCACE. 
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looking downwards and outwards, the hilum being early swollen into 
an annular cushion. The fruit accompanied at its base by the calyx 
which remains membranous, is formed of several carpels, at first 
slightly fleshy, afterwards dry, each enclosing a seed quite analogous 
to that of Phylolacca. The Frcille are herbaceous, perennial 
climbing plants. Their leaves are alternate, simple, exstipulate.’ 
The flowers are arranged in axillary spikes; and each placed in 
the axil of a bract is accompanied by two sterile lateral bractlets. 
This genus includes probably but one species, the Chilian and Peruvian 
E. volubilis; often cultivated in our green houses. 
Anisomeri& represents the irregular form of Phytolacca* and 
Freilla; for the quinary calyx, and stamens from ten to thirty, are 
more developed on the posterior than the anterior side of the 
flower ; and the carpels, from three to six, become achenes more or 
less vesiculate, the seed being nearly that of Phyfolacca. It consists 
of frutescent or herbaceous plants natives of Chili, with taproots, erect 
stems, entire leaves, and flowers arranged in racemes or terminal 
spikes. Two species have been described.° 
The Giseckias (figs. 29, 30) may be taken in this series as a type 
of a distinct subseries. They have small hermaphrodite or poly- 
gamous, pentamerous flowers. 
Their five sepals, membranous 
at the margin, are quincun- 
cially imbricated in the bud. 
They cover an androceum of 
five stamens alternate to the 
sepals ; or of ten stamens, of 
which five are superposed ; or 
even of fifteen stamens, some 
among them being replaced by 
a pair. All have a free fila- 
Giseckia pharnaceoides. 

Fie, 29. 
Gynæceum ($). 
Fra. 30. 
Longitudinal section of 
gyzæceum, 

1 In their axil is seen a bud, above which is 
developed an adventitious root, covered with hair 
when young. 
2 A, Juss., loc. cit.—Ré£m. in C. Gay Fl. 
5 Papp. et Enpz, Non. Gen. et Spec.. 26, 
t. 43-45.—Rém., in © Gay Fl. Chil. v. 
254. 
6 L, Mantiss., n. 1340—J, Gen., 315.— 
Chil., v. 261.—E, spicata MoQ.—Suriana volu- 
bilis Domp.— Galvezia spicata BERTER. 
3 Don, in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., xiii. 
(1832), 238.—Mog., Prodr., 25, 
4 From which they can hardly be separated, 
except as a subgenus, 
Mog., Prodr., 26.—B. H., Gen., 859, n. 20.— 
Giseckia Enpu., Gen, n. 5261.—Kelreutera 
Morr., in Nov. Comm. Gett., iii. t. 2, fig. 1 
(nee Laxm.),—WMiltus Lour., Fl. Cochinch., ed. 
1 (1790), 302.—DC., Prodr., iii, 454 (Ficoidee). 
