TALINUM teretifolium. 

 Slender-leaved Talinum. 



POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Portulacace.*. 

 TALINUM. Adanson. 



§ 1 . Stigmas or lobes of the style short, connivent. Perennial herbs, 

 with a short thick and firm stem, and terete, subulate, fleshy leaves. 

 Flowers in a terminal, dichotomous cyme, expanding for a single day. 

 Phkmeranthtjs Rafinesque. 



T. ciliutum ; caule simplici v. ramoso, foliis aggregatis teretibus, pedunculis 

 elongatis, panicula cymosa, petalis purpureis ovato-subrotundis, stami- 

 nibus 20. 



T. teretifolium. Pursh Fl. Bor. am. 2. 365. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 819. DeCand. 

 Prodr. 3. 386. Gray and Torreys Flor. 1. 196. 



A pretty little herbaceous plant, seldom seen in cultiva- 

 tion. It inhabits various parts of North America, from Texas 

 as far north as Pennsylvania, trailing over naked rocks, its 

 favourite place of resort. 



In our gardens it is treated as a greenhouse plant, and then 

 it forms neat patches of lively purple flowers. It is, how- 

 ever, rather rare. 



Our drawing was made in 1841, in the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, where it had been raised from seeds 

 received from Mr. Otto of Berlin. 



Fig. 1. represents the calyx and stamens, magnified, the 

 petals having been pulled off. 



January, 1843. 



