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required. It bears pruning and clipping with impunity. Its 

 fruit is a small, Hack berry, produced in bunches ; the juice is 

 said to be used for painting playing-cards and also for colouring 

 port wine, A bitter extract called Ligustrine is obtained from 

 the bark; it also contains tannin. 



Protea, the Linnsean name of a genus, the type of the 

 Protea family (Proteacese). It consists of 40 to 50 species of 

 shrubs and small trees, with alternate, entire, smooth or villose 

 leaves, varying from linear to oblong, elhptical, and cordate. 

 Plowers in terminal heads, composed of numerous tubular florets 

 (calyx), surrounded by oblong imbricated bracts, similar to the 

 flowers of the Composite family (Composite), in P, longiflora, 

 P. grandiflora, P. speciosa, P. formosa, and P. mellifera. The 

 flowers are large, 3 to 4 inches in length, firm and imbricated, 

 forming a cup, which in P. mellifem contains a large quantity 

 of honey. (See Honey Plowers.) They are all, with the excep- 

 tion of P. ahjssinica, natives of South Africa. Twenty-three 

 species are recorded in the second edition of Eortus Kewensis 

 (1813), which for many years formed a part of the great collec- 

 tion of Proteacese at Kew. 



Prune. (See Plum.) 



Puchuriin Bean. {See ITutmeg.) 



Pudding Berries {Cormcs canadensis), a herb of the Dog- 

 wood family (Cornacece), common throughout the whole of ISTorth 

 America. An allied species is G. suedca, called Dwarf Cornel. 

 It is smaller than the preceding, seldom exceeding 6 inches in 

 height. It is a native of the North of Scotland and the North 

 of Europe generally. The berries of both are used as food, 

 especially by the Esquimaux. 



Pudding Pipe, a name given in Jamaica and the West 

 Indies to Cassia fisMa, sometimes called Gathartoeaiyus fistula, 

 a small wing-leaved tree of the Bean family (Leguminosae), 

 producing abundance of yellow flowers, native of the East 

 Indies, and now common in most tropical countries. It 

 produces a smooth cylindrical pod twice the thickness of the 

 finger, and sometimes two feet in length. The interior is divided 



