Rivina
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Rivina (named after A. Q. Rivinus, professor of botany, at Leipzig, 1691-1725). Phytolaccaceae. Erect herbs, shrubby at base, suitable for the warm-house and also useful outdoors as a summer annual. Leaves alternate, slender-petioled, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or cordate-ovate; stipules minute and caducous: infl. racemose, axillary or rarely terminal; fls. small, perfect; perianth 4-parted; stamens 4: berry red, pea-like.—Species 3 (Walter, Engler's Pflanzenreich, hft. 39), native of Trop. and Subtrop. Amer., but intro. into Asia and Afr.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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