Phytolacca rivinoides Kunth & Bouche

Phytolacca rivinoides Ktinth & Bouche, Ind. Sem. llort. Berol
1848:15. 1849.— Ann. Sci. Xat. III. 11: 231. 1849. Phytolacca icosandra Wright, Mem. 268. 1828. Not P. icosandra L. 1759.
A glabrous herb, the stems weak, vine-like, 4-5 m. long; leaf blades elliptic, Ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 8-17 cm. long, 2.5-8.5 cm. broad, acuminate to long-acuminate al the apex, acute or cuiv i ioles slender, 0.8 -3.5 cm. long, grooved above; racemes pcd-
uneled, 2-7 dm. long; pedicels 4.5-10 mm. long, divergent, each with a subulate brad at its base and usually 2 similar ones above; sepals pinkish-white, elliptic to oval, about 2.5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. broad, usually deciduous in fruit ; stamens 9 22, inserted on the disc, shortei than the sepals; filaments subulate-, 1.8 mm. long; anthers elliptic, 0.7-0.8 mm
ed-globose, 10-16-carpellary; styles cylindric, recurved; berry black, 6 5 7 mm. in I Mifiorbiculur, 2 mm. long, rather dull.
Jamaica; Santo Domingo; l 'or to Rico; St. Kin . to Trinidad ; Mt tral America; alv. in South An ■ iTiOM Bot Mag, ;
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