MR. M. P. EDGEWORTH—FLORULA MALLICA. 185 
CaRYOPHYLLACES. 
Vaccaria parviflora. Corn-fields. 
Silene conoidea. Ditto. 
Stellaria media. Ditto. 
Stipularia flaccida, Roxb. This differs not only in its decandrous flowers, 
but in the seed, which is broadly winged. In pentandra the seed is 
scrobiculate and scarcely winged, while in fallax the seed is a com- 
pressed sphere without any wing. 
Spergularia rubra. Fields. 
Polycarpea corymbosa. Fields. 
PORTULACACES. 
Portulaca meridiana. Gardens and desert. 
—— quadrifida. Ditto ditto. 
—— oleracea. Cultivated as a vegetable. 
MOLLUGINES. 
Mollugo Cerviana. Fields and desert. 
—— nudicaulis. Ditto ditto. 
Orygia trianthemoides. Chandniot, &c. 
Glinus lotoides. Desert. 
FRANKENIACES. 
Frankenia pulverulenta. In sodiferous soil, but rare. 
MALVACEX. 
Abutilon Indicum. (Ind. Abut kanda.) Used in coughs. 
Sida cordifolia. . 
— grewioides, Guil. § Per. Fl. Seneg. 71. This differs from the African 
form in the petioles being longer, and the pedicels 3 to 1 inch long, 
not subsessile as described. The carpels are rugose on the back and 
shortly beaked. 
— humilis. 
Malva vulgaris. 
—-— parviflora. 
Althea Ludwigii. 
Hibiscus micranthus, Linn. Chandniot hills. 
—— laguneoides. In cotton-fields.—See description, p. 199. 
Abelmoschus esculentus. 
Gossypium herbaceum. Cult. 
TILIACEX. 
Corchorus depressus (Antichorus), L. 
-— trilocularis. 
~~ olitorius. 
—— eapsularis. 
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