Podopterus
(from pous, podos, a foot, and pteris, a wing; in allusion to the outer perianth segments being winged). ORD. Polygoneae. A monotypic genus. The species is a handsome, greenhouse shrub, with rigid, flexuous branches and branchlets, usually spinescent at the tips. It requires a compost of equal parts loam and peat. Increased by young cuttings, which root readily, if inserted in any light soil, under a glass.
P. mexicanus (Mexican). fl. pink, small, twin or few in the axils of the bracts; perianth of six segments; fascicles racemose; racemes wavy at the tips of the branches, loosely sub-paniculate. July. l. obovate-oblong, membranous, slightly acute, attenuated at base, sub-sessile, 1in. long, 1/2in. or more broad, minutely puberulous, fasciculate in the nodes. h. 2ft. Mexico, 1825.