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PORTULACA pilosa. 
Hairy Brasilian Purslane. 
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DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PORTULACE®. Jussieu gen. 312. Div. I. Fructus unilocularis. 
PORTULACA. Cal. superus bipartitus, tardiùs basi cireumscissus et 
deciduus. Petala 5, rariùs 4, basi. calycis inserta, ipsoque longiora, ses- 
silia, æqualia. Stamina crebra, ibidem inserta, corolla breviora. Fila- 
menta libera. Anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium 
(germen) inferum vel semiinferum, uniloculare; ovulis crebris. Stylus unus, 
superne 3-8-fidus. Capsula unilocularis, polysperma, circumscissa, Pla- 
cente tot quot stigmata, fundo capsule aflixe, quibus semina per podosper- 
mia (funiculi umbilicales) insident. Semina subcochleato-lenticularia, tu- 
bureulato-scabra. Integumentum exterius crustaceum fragile, interius te- 
nuissimé membranaceum. Embryo teres endospermis (albumini) centrali 
farinoso circumpositus. Radicula supera. Herba succulente. Folia sparsa, 
interdum. subverticillata, carnosa, integerrima, in axillis fasciculo pilorum 
instructa. Flores terminales, solitarii, gemini, aut plures congesti, bracteis 
pilisque involucrati, Corolle flave, rose, aut purpurea. Kunth nov. gen. 
et spec. 6. 71. 
P. pilosa, foriis sublatis alternis; axillis pilosis, floribus sessilibus termi- 
nalibus. Linn, sp. pl. ed. 2. 
Portulaca pilosa. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2 Willd. sp. pl. 2. 860. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 3. 147. 
Portulaca curassavica, angusto longo lucidoque folio, procumbens. Com- 
mel. hort. amst. 1. 9. tab. 5. 
Portulaca curassavica languinosa procumbens. Herman. parad. 215, cum 
tab. 
Anacampseros supina minor, foliis’ linearibus turgidis, floribus summis ra- 
mulis confertis.. Browne jam. 234. 
Said to have been cultivated in the King's garden, at 
Hampton Court, in 1690. 
Drawn from a plant which flowered in the collection of 
Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater. 
