206 MR. M. P. EDGEWORTH—FLORULA MALLICA. 
nuts also give good marks: some are almost smooth (77, 78; 1389, 
Wight); some smooth below and strigose above (64); others (as 
62, 63, 66, 72; and 1390 of Wight) thickly strigose ; some are 
almost exactly globose, but others distinctly four-lobed. The 
anthers in many have hairs, converting the apex into a little pencil, 
while in other species they are wanting and are either simply api- 
, culate or even blunt. The stigma in linifolium is smaller and 
cordiform obclavate, in all the rest parasol-shaped, with the apicula 
shorter or longer according to the species. 
The throat of the corolla is usually closed with hairs, but in this, 
which I have referred to bicolor, it is open and bare. Ihave not had 
an opportunity of examining this point in an Arabian specimen. 
Finally, we find every shade of pubescence, from the soft down 
of tenuifolium (no. 67) to the densely strigose forms of strigosum, 
marifolium, and scabrum. 
Limeum Inpicum, Stocks, MSS. Prostratum, folis suboppositis 
incequalibus oblique ovatis vel rotundis mucronatis glabris, cymis 
brevi-pedunculatis, petalis hyalinis obeuneatis 3-dentatis, stam. 7, 
coccis lævibus depressis. 
Sindh to Punjab. ` 
Annua? Rami prostrati, velutini, ad nodos incrassati, ramulis alternatim 
brevioribus quaque axilla. Folia subopposita, oblique ovata v. rotun- 
data, mucronata, integerrima, utrinque glabra, crassiuscula, petiolis bre- 
vibus subamplexicaulibus stipulam mentientibus. Cyme brevissimz, 
pedunculatz, axillares vel supra-axillares, pedicellis bracteolatis, bractea 
scariosa acuta. Sepala 5, quincuncialia, ovata, acuta, herbacea, margine 
membranaceo albo. Petala 5, hyalina, unguiculata, obcuneata, apice 
truncata, tridentata, cum sepalis alterna. Stamina 7, filamentis basi dila- 
tatis in diseum glandulosum subcoalitis persistentibus, antheris 2-lobis 
introrsis. Ovarium 2-lobum, stylis 2, lobis contrariis, loculis 1-ovu- 
latis. Fructus dicoccus, depresse subsphecricus, levis, indehiscens. 
Seminis testa membranacea. Embryo annularis, albumen farinaceum 
amplectens, cotyledonibus longis linearibus. 
The habit is that of Glinus or Gisekia. It differs from the 
generie character as given in DC. or Endlicher in having opposite 
leaves and smooth cocci. 
JEnvA Dovir, Webb. Ramosissima, dioica, lanuginosa, foliis sessilibus 
linearibus mucronatis, bracteis scariosis subglabris, stylo stigmatibus 
breviore. 
Deserto Rechnab. 
Dioica, erecta, ramosissima, lanugine stellata brevi vestita. Folia alterna, 
linearia, basi attenuata, apice mucronata, Spicæ axillares terminales- 
