278 THE FLORA. 
Orver CITI. PHYTOLACCACEH. Pokeweeds. 
Herbs or shrubs with alternate leaves, no stipules, and flowers racemed ; 
sepals colored, 4 or 5; petals none; stamens few or many; 
ovary of one or several carpels, which are united into a ring, forming a 
berry in fruit; cel/s as many as the carpels, each 1-seeded; 
embryo curved around the fleshy albumen. 
Analysis of the Genera. 
Sepals 5, roundish. Sta. 5-20. Ovary 5-12-carpeled and seeded. Puyrotao’oa. 1 
Sepals 4, persistent. Stamens 4-12, Ovary 1-carpeled and 1-seeded. 8. Rrvr/na. 
PHYTOLAO’OA. Poke. 
Character expressed in the 
Analysis.—Tall and stout per- 
ennials, with greenish flowers 
and purple berries. 
P, decan/dra. Plant 5~-8f. high, 
very smooth, bushy. Leaves 
large, ovate, acute at each end, 
petioled. Racemes at first 
terminal, finally opposite to 4 k 
the leaves. Berries oblate, of N / \ 
arich dark purple. July—Sept. wal yy wm 
Fig. 627, Phytolacca decandria, leaves, flowers, and fruit. 8. A flower, natural size, 9. Its 
stamens and ovary. Fig. 630. Cross-section of the ovary. 1. A seed cut open, showing the em- 
bryo coiled around the albumen, 
Orper CVIL LAURACEA. Laurels. 
Trees and shrubs aromatic, with alternate, simple, dotted leaves ; 
sepals colored, 4-6, slightly united, strongly imbricated ; 
anthers 2 or 4-celled, opening upwards by as many valves; 
ovary 1-ovuled, becoming a drupe in fruit; no albumen. 
Analysis of the Genera. 
§ Flowers perfect, the calyx persistent. Leaves evergreen....a 
§ Flowers imperfect. Calyx deciduous. Leaves deciduous....b 
a Trees, Lvs, thiok, lance-oblong. Fis. umbeled. 8, Bay Galle, Pur’sma. 
