XXV. PHYTOLACCACEZÆ. 
1. PHYTOLACCA SERIES. 
Phytolacca' has regular flowers often hermaphrodite, with a 
perianth sometimes petaloid formed of five leaves quincuncially 
Phytolacea decandra. 

Fie. 21. 
Floriferons branch (2). Root (75): 
imbricated, inserted upon a convex receptacle. More internally, 

1, Insé. 299, t. 154.—L. Gen., n. 588.— Porr., Dict., v. 306; Suppl., iv. 406,—LaM., 
ADANS., Fam. des Pl., ii. 262.—J., Gen., 84.— II. t. 393.—GæRTN., Fruct., i. 377, t. 77.— 
