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handsome, -with twice-pinnate leaves bear- 

 ing numerous small leaflets, and showy 

 orange or yellowish flowers in terminal 

 racemes with long richly coloured *tamens. 

 P pulcherrima of Linnaeus.a prickly shrub, 

 so much planted for hedges as well as for 

 its great beauty in most tropical countries, 

 is now considered as a species of Ccesalpinia, 

 as is also P. Gilliesii, from South America, 

 often to be seon in our greenhouses, and 

 which some botanists have proposed to 

 establish as a genus by itself, to which 

 they have given the name of Erythroste- 

 mon, derived from the rich crimson sta- 

 mens, which are longer than in any other 

 species. 



POIXCILLADE. (Fr.) Poinciana. — 

 FAUSSE. Adenanthera. 



POIXSETTIA. A name given by Graham 

 to a South American euphorbiaceous shrub, 

 frequently to be seen in our stove collec- 

 tions, and still more common in the gar- 

 dens of the soutb of Spain, where it is 

 known by the name of Flor de Pasqua. 

 The large richly-coloured red bracts which 

 surround the small green flower-heads 

 are very showy, and were made use of to 

 characterise the genus. It is now found, 

 however, that there is nothing else to dis- 

 tinguish ic from Euphorbia itself, and that 

 many other species of that genus have 

 similar bracts, although less conspicuous ; 

 and Poinsettia has therefore been recently 

 reunited with Euphorbia. 



POINTE DE FLECHE. (Fr.) Pontede- 

 ria. 



POINTLETTED. The same as Apiculate. 



POIRE. (Fr.) The fruit of the Pear- 

 tree. — D'AIL. Cratceva. — D'ANCHOIS. 

 Grias. — D'AVOCAT. Persea aratissima. 



— DE TERRE. The tubers of Helianthus 

 tuberosus. 



POIREAU, or POREATJ. (Fr.) Allium 

 Porrurn. — D'ETE, or DU LEVANT. Al- 

 lium Ampeloprasum. 



POIREE, or POREE. (Fr.) Beta Cycla. 



POIRETIA. A genus of Leguminosce of 

 the suborder Papilionacece and tribe He- 

 dy-i-ariece, consisting of half a dozen South 

 American herbaceous twiners or peren- 

 nials, with pinnate leaves of four or rarely 

 three leaflets, and yellow flowers in axil- 

 lary racemes or terminal panicles. The 

 stamens are strictly monadelphous, and 

 the flat pod consists of several joints either 

 square or oblong. The whole plant is al- 

 ways dotted with small resinous glands. 

 Some species might be ornamental, but are 

 not in cultivation, and no other interest is 

 attached to them. 



POIRIER. (Fr.) Pyrus. —D'AIL. Cra- 

 tava. — D'AVOCAT. Persea gratissima. 



— DES ANTILLES, or DE LA MARTI- 

 NIQUE. Tecomapentapkylla. —DES IN- 

 DES. Psidium. 



POIS. (Fr.) Pisum. —A BOtJQUETS. 

 Lathy rus latifolius; also Pisum sativum 



umbellatum. — A FLEUFtS. Lathyrus odo- 

 ratus. — AGNEAU. Pisum arvense. — A 

 GRATTER. Mucuna pruriens. — BRETON. 

 Lathyrus Cicera. — CAFE". Tetragonolobus 

 purpureus. — CARRE. Pisum sativum 

 q mill ration. — CICHE. Cicer arietinum. — 

 CORNU. Lathyrus Cicera. — DANGOLE. 

 Cajanus indicus. — DE BREBIS. Lathy- 

 rus sativus ; also Pisum arvense. — DE 

 CHINE. Lathvrus latifolius. — DE CCEUR, 

 orDE MERVEILLE. Cardiospermum Ha- 

 licacabum. — DE PIGEON. Pisum arvense; 

 also Ervum. — DE SENTEUR. Lathyrus 

 odoratus. — DE SERPENT. Lathyrus 

 Aphaca. — DOUX. Inga Burgoni. — GOU- 

 LUS, or MANGE-TOUT. Pisum sativum 

 saccharatum. — MABONIA. Capparis cy- 

 nophallophora. - MUSQUfi, or ODORANT. 

 Lathyrus odoratus. — PATATE. Pachy- 

 rhizus tuberosus. — QUENIQUES. The 

 seeds of M oringa pterygosperma. — SABRE. 

 Canavalia ensiformis. — SANS PARCHE- 

 MIN, or SUCRES. Pisum sativum saccha- 

 ratum. 



POISON, ARROW. The juice of Euphor- 

 bia heptagona, virosa, and cereiformis in 

 Africa, and of E. cotinifolia in Brazil. Also 

 the Wourali Ourari, or Carana poison, de- 

 rived from Strychnos toxifera by the savages 

 of Guiana ; and the Tieute Tjetteh or Tschit- 

 tich poison, prepared by the Javanese from 

 Strychnos Tieute. Also the poisonous juice 

 of Hippomane Mancinella. 



POISON-BERRY, A West Indian name 

 for Oestrum. 



POISON-BULB. Buphane toxicaria. — , 

 ASIATIC. Crinum asiaticum. 



POISON-WOOD. An American name for 

 Rhus venenata. 



POITjEA. A genus of Leguminosce of 

 the suborder Papilionacece and tribe Ga- 

 legece, consisting of two or three shrubs 

 from San Domingo, having the habit of 

 Robinia. They are also nearly allied to 

 that genus, but the long narrow petals, 

 with the upper one or vexilluin shorter 

 than the wings, give the flower an oblong 

 shape, very different to that of Robinia. 

 The leaves are pinnate, the flowers white 

 or pink in axillary racemes. 



POITRON. (Fr.) A kind of yellow plum. 



POIVRE. (Fr.) The frait of the Pepper. 

 — D'A,FRIQUE. Habzelia wlhiopica. — 

 D'AMERIQUE. Schinus Molle. — D'EAU. 

 Polygonum Hydropiper. — DE GUINEE. 

 Capsicum annuum. — DE LA JAMAIQUE. 

 Eugenia Pimenta. — DE MURAILLE. Se- 

 dum acre. — D'OISEAU, or DE POULE. 

 Capsicum baccatum. — DU COMMERCE. 

 Piper nigrum. — INDIEN. Habzelia ozthio- 

 pica. — LONG. Capsicum annuum. 



POIVREA. Climbing shrubs of the order 

 Combretacere, natives of the tropics of both 

 hemispheres. They have opposite or alter- 

 nate entire leaves, and spiked axillary and 

 terminal inflorescence. Their flowers have 

 a funnel-shaped fl ve-lobed deciduous calyx, 

 five petals, ten protruded stamens, and a 



