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and even wine, which in quality has been 

 considered to approach the famed Malmsey 

 of Madeira. [W. B. B.] 



PASTISSON. (Fr.) Cucurbita Melopepo. 



PATABEA. A genus of Cinchonacece, 

 consisting of shrubs with oval pointed 

 leaves, and axillary or terminal flowers, 

 provided with four small bracts, arranged 

 crosswise ; calyx-limb short, entire, or 

 slightly four to six-toothed ; corolla with 

 a short tube, and a limb of four to six ob- 

 long spreading lobes ; anthers four to six, 

 sessile within the throat of the corolla. 

 Fruit succulent, two-celled, two-seeded, 

 surrounded by the calyx. The species are 

 natives of Guiana. [M. T. M.] 



PATAGONULA. A small genus contain- 

 ing two species, natives of Jamaica, bran ril- 

 ing shrubs with alternate leaves, and 

 small flowers in panicles without bracts. 

 They have a very small calyx, increasing 

 around the drupaceous fruit ; a rotate co- 

 rolla, with a short five-cleft limb; Ave sta- 

 mens inserted in the throat of the corolla ; 

 and a simple style, doubly dichotomous, 

 and having a stigmatic surface on each of 

 the four divisions. The fruit is a subglo- 

 bose drupe, with a one-celled stone. 



The position of this genus is doubtful. 

 It was referred to Cordia in Hortus Kew- 

 ensis, and to Cordiacew by Chamisso, and 

 doubtfully by Endlicher. Alph. Decandolle, 

 from the examination of P. bahiensis, re- 

 fers it to Verbenacece ; while Schauer sepa- 

 rates it from this order on account of its 

 different habit, inflorescence, calyx, and 

 fruit. [W. C] 



PATARA. A Tahitian edible tuber, pro- 

 bably that of Dioscorea pentaphylla. 



PATATE. (Fr.) Solanum tuberosum. — 

 DOUCE. Batatas edulis. 



PA TAW A. CEnocarp us Batava. 

 PATCHOULI. A perfume obtained from 

 an Indian herb, Pogosiemon Patchouli. 



PATE D'AMANDE. (Fr.) The farina- 

 ceous matter which is left after the oil is 

 expressed from almonds. — DE, GUI- 

 MAUVE. A confectioner's name for a 

 lozenge made from Althcea officinalis. 



PATELLA, PATELLULA. An orbicular 

 sessile shield in lichens, surrounded by a 

 rim which is part of itself, and not derived 

 from the thallus. 



PATELLIFORM. The same as Knee- 

 pan-shaped. 



PATENOTRIER. (Fr.) Stapliylea pin- 

 nata. 



PATENS, or PATENT. Spreading wide 

 open ; as petals from the calyx. Patentis- 

 simus is spreading open so much as to fall 

 back. 



PATERSONIA. A small genus of New 

 Holland Iridaceoz, distinguished by having 

 a hypocrateriform perianth, with six seg- 

 ments, the three inner of which are mi- 

 nute ; three stamens, with their filaments 



connate into a tube ; a hairlike style with 

 three laminiform stigmas ; and a three- 

 celled prismatical ovary containing nume- 

 rous ovules. They are perennial herbs, 

 with fibrous roots, from which spring nar- 

 row ensiform leaves, and showy but very 

 I fugacious blue flowers. [T. M.] 



PATHOLOGY. That part of Botany 

 which relates to the diseases of plants. 



PATIENCE. (Fr.) Rurnex Patientia. - 

 ! DES EAUX, GRANDE. Rumex Hydrola- 

 palhum. — DES JARDINS. Rumex Pa- 

 tientia. — SAUVAGE. Rumex obtusifolius. 

 j PATISSON. (Fr.) A kind of Gourd. 



PATMAWORTS. A name formerly pro- 

 i posed by Lindley for the Rafflesiacece. 



PATONIA. A genus of Cingalese 

 shrubs now referred by Drs. Hooker and 

 : Thomson to Xylopia. 



| PATRAQUE. (Fr.) Solanumtuberosum. 



[ PATRINIA. A genus of Valerianaceo?, 

 so named in compliment to a French bo- 

 tanical traveller in Siberia, who disco- 

 vered some of the species. They are her- 

 baceous plants, with tufted leaves, and 

 ; yellow flowers in terminal corymbs. The 

 I main features of the genus are .-—Calyx 

 ' with an erect very short limb, which is 

 ; sometimes entirely wanting ; corollaregu- 

 I lar, tubular with a three-lobed limb ; sta- 

 mens four or five; fruit membranous, 

 j crowned by the limb of the calyx, with two 

 empty compartments, and a third contain- 

 ing a single seed. [M. T. M.] 



PATTE DARAIGNEE. Nigella damas- 

 cena. — DE LAPIN. Sedum villosum. — 

 DE LION. Leontopodium alpinum, — DE 

 LOUP. Lycopodhim clavatum. — D'OIE. 

 Clienopodium. — D'OURS. Acanthus mol- 

 lis. 



PATULOUS. Spreading half open. 



PATURIN. (Fr.) Poa. — A MAN- 

 CHETTES. Poa pilosa. — COMMUN. Poa 

 trivialis. 



PAULIA. A genus of gelatinous lichens 

 resembling Sinalyssa, an allied genus, in 

 the gonidia being produced exactly in the 



j same manner as Palmella botryoides is mul- 

 tiplied, a structure which obtains also in 



j Emericella. [M. J. B.j 



PAULLINIA. "With the exception of 

 two or three West African species, the 

 whole of this large genus of Sapindacea?, 

 consisting of about sixty species, is con- 

 fined to the tropical regions of the western 

 hemisphere. Nearly all are climbing shrubs 

 furnished with tendrils, and having va- 

 riously divided compound leaves, with sti- 

 pules at their bases, and axillary racemes 

 of white flowers with two opposite tendrils 

 below them. The flowers have five sepals 

 either distinct or two of them united ; four 

 petals bearing scales inside near the base; 

 eight stamens inserted on the inside of the 

 two or four glands of the disk ; and a short 

 three-parted style. The genus, however, 

 is distinguished from some of its allies by 



