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PISONIA.* 
% 
(Pisone. Fr.) 
Natural Order, Nyctagweje. (Juss.) Linncean Classification, 
PoLYGAMIA DlOECIA. 
Polygamous dioecious. — Calyx campanulate, with the deciduous border 
plaited and 5 -cleft. No corolla. Capsule of one cell, containing one 
seed, without valves, clothed by the pentangular, dry, or succulent base 
of the calyx. Stamens 6 to 8, exserted. Style simple, the stigma 
bifid. 
Small trees, chiefly of the tropical parts of America and India. The 
leaves alternate or nearly opposite, entire ; the flowers small and herba- 
ceous in axillary or terminal racemes or cymes. 
PRICKLY PISONIA on FINGRIGO. 
(Pisone Epineuse. Fr.) 
PISONIA aculeata, spinis axillaribus , patentissimis ; foliis ovatis , 
utrinque acutis , subacuminatis , glabriusculis ; calycibus demum aeu - 
leatis glutinosis. 
Pisonia aculeata . Linn. Sp. pi. Jacq. Amer. p. 274. Gartner, de 
Fruct. cent. 5, t. 76, f. 4. Lam. Illust. t. 861. Plumier, Gen. p. 7, 
t. 11, et Icon. 227, fig. 1. 
Pisonia assurgens , sarmento valiclo ; foliis ovatis , utrinque productis ; 
spinis validis , recurvis ; racemis later alibiis. Brown, Jam. p. 258. 
* Named by Plumier in honour of Piso, who wrote on the Natural His- 
tory of Brazil. 
