Phytolacca rugosa A. Br. & Bouche

Phytolacca rugosa Braun & Bouche, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1851: 13. 1852.— Linnaea25: 297. 1853.
A shrubby herb, 1 m. or more in height, with erect branches; leaf-blades elliptic-lanceolate
or elliptic, 6-13 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad, acuminate at both ends; petioles 1.5-4.5 cm. long,
angled, channeled above, glabrous; racemes shorter or longer than the leaves; pedicels 3-4 mm.
long, slender, subterete; bracts subulate, equaling or shorter than the pedicels; bractlets
subulate, smaller than the bracts; sepals oblong-elliptic, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1.8-2 mm. broad,
rarely larger, rounded at the apex, often recurved in fruit; stamens 8-10; filaments subulate,
2—2.2 mm. long; anthers elliptic, 0.7 mm. long; ovary subglobose, 8-, rarely 6or 7or 9-
carpellary; styles cylindric, recurved, distant in fruit; fruit 5.5-6 mm. in diameter; seed sub-
reniform, 2.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Guatemala.
Distribution: Mexico and Central America; also in South America.