PORTULACEE. 
the calyx, obovate-roundish. %. G. Native of Chili, in the 
plains near Mendoza. Plant stout, in proportion to its height. 
Flowers large, bright reddish purple. 
Gillies’s Purslane. Pl. 4 to 4 foot. 
21 P. reretiroria (H. B. et Kunth, 1. c.) stems creeping, 
corymbosely branched; axils rather pilose; leaves scattered, 
terete, acutish; flowers 3-5 in a heap, sessile, involucrated, and 
surrounded by hairs. ©. F. Native of South America, on 
the sandy banks of the river Orinoco and Rio Negro, near Cari- 
chana, Maypures, San Carlos, &c. Very like P. rubicailis, but 
differs in the flowers being purple. Stamens 18-24. 
Terete-leaved Purslane. Pl. creeping. 
22 P. AXILLIFIÒRA (Pers. ench. 2. p. 6.) stems procum- 
bent ; leaves oblong, fleshy, in young plants they are opposite ; 
flowers solitary, axillary. ©. F. Native country unknown. 
Meridiana axilliflora, Schrank. bot. zeit. 1804. p. 354, Co- 
rolla and stamens rose-coloured. 
Axil-flowered Purslane. Pl. pr. 
+ Species not sufficiently known. 
23 P. mprica‘ra (Forsk. descr. 92.) leaves crowded, ovate, 
acute, flat beneath, and convex above, opposite; joints hairy at 
the base ; flowers sessile, terminal. ©.H. Native of Arabia. 
Flowers yellow, large. Surculi as if they were tetragonal, from 
the leaves being imbricated on them in 4 rows. 
Imbricate-leaved Purslane. PI. pr. 
24 P. Ca’rrra (Thunb. fl. cap. p. 399.) stem weak, branched, 
glabrous ; leaves linear-oblong, alternate; flowers axillary, pedi- 
cellate; pedicels bibracteate. ©. F. Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. Corolla yellow, 6-petalled. Style trifid. Cap- 
sule probably 2-celled and 2-valved. 
Caffrarian Purslane. Pl. pr. 
25 P. Ara’sica (Forsk. descr. 92. no. 81.) calyx of 4 per- 
manent sepals.—Native of Arabia. The rest unknown. 
Arabian Purslane. P1.? 
26 P. rra'va (Forst. pl. esc. p.72.). ©. F. Native on 
the shores of the Society Islands, where it is boiled and eaten 
by the natives, and called by them 4turi. This plant has not 
been described, and is probably nothing else but P. oleracea. 
Yellow-flowered Purslane. PI. pr. 
27 P. Wicurta‘'na (Wall. cat. no. 6845.) plant diffuse; leaves 
small, intermixed with numerous soft leafy stipulas ; flowers ses- 
sile, terminal, almost hidden by the white bracteas. h.S. Native 
of the East Indies, at Sadras, in moist sand. A singular species. 
Wight’s Purslane. Pl. 4 foot. 
Cult. Being mostly annual plants, growing naturally in sandy 
soil near the sea, the seeds should be sown in dry warm situa- 
tions in spring: or it is perhaps better to sow them on a hot- 
bed in spring, and plant them out towards the end of May into 
the open border ; or they may be grown in pots and set in the 
greenhouse or in a frame. 
IV. GRAHA‘MIA (in honour of Mrs. Maria Graham, a 
great traveller in South America, particularly in Brazil, Peru, 
and Chili.) Gill. mss. ex Hook. et Arn. in bot. misc. 3. p. 241. 
Lin. syst. Icosándria, Monogynia. Calyx of 2 permanent, 
oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, concave, stiff sepals, propped by 
8 or 9 imbricate bracteas, similar to the sepals. Petals 5, obo- 
vate, mucronulate. Stamens numerous, about 40; filaments 
filiform, monadelphous at the base; anthers erect, 2-celled. 
Ovarium oblong, 1-celled. Style filiform, thickened upwards ; 
stigmas 4, but usually 5, linear. Capsule 1-celled, 5-valved. 
Seeds numerous, compressed, broadly winged, each fixed by a 
podosperm to the central axis—A smooth branched shrub, with 
alternate, terete, oblong, obtuse, fleshy leaves, bearing hairs in 
the axils. Flowers solitary, terminating short or elongated 
III. Porruzaca. 
IV. Granamia. V. ANACAMPSEROS. ea NO 
branches, with white sepals and petals ; and having the filaments 
purple at the base, and the anthers and stigmas yellow. 
1 G. sractea‘ra (Gill. mss. ex Hook. et Arn. 1l. c. p. 242.). 
h. D. G. Native of Chili, among bushes, in the Travesia 
between San Louis and Mendoza, especially near the river Desa- 
guadero, at the altitude of 1500 feet. Xeranthus salicdsus, 
Miers. chil. vol. 2. p. 529. 
Bracteate-flowered Grahamia. Shrub 1 foot. 
Cult. See Portulacaria for culture and propagation. 
V. ANACA’MPSEROS (from avaxapyrrw, anacampto, to 
cause return, and epoc, eros, love; supposed effects). Sims, 
bot. mag. (1811) no. 1357. D.C. cat. hort. monsp. p. 77. but 
not of Haw.—Telephidstrum, Dill. elth. p. 376.—Rulingia, 
Haw. suce. pl. syn. (1812.) p. 124. but not of R. Br.—Portu- 
laca species of Lin.—Rulingia species of Ehrh.—Talinum spe- 
cies of Willd.—Portulacee gibbee, Haw. mise. nat. p. 141. 
Lin. syst. Dodecdéndria, Monogiynia. Calyx of 2 sepals (f. 
16. a.); sepals opposite, oblong, rather concrete at the base. 
Petals 5 (f. 16. b.), very fugacious. Stamens 15-20 (f. 16. d.); 
filaments distinct, inserted in the bottom of the calyx along 
with the petals, and adhering a little to them. Style filiform, 
trifid at the apex (f. 16. d.). Capsule conical, 1-celled, 3-valved 
(f. 16. ¢.), with the valves cleft longitudinally in the middle, 
and therefore the capsule appears as if it was 6-valved (f. 16. c). 
Seeds numerous, winged, fixed to a central placenta.—Very 
dwarf herbs or subshrubs, natives of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Leaves ovate, fleshy. Axils bearing filamentous subscarious 
stipulaceous hairs. Bracteas membranous, usually lobed into 
setaceous segments. Pedicels 1-flowered, elongated, disposed 
in racemes. Flowers of a rose-purple colour or white, expand- 
ing only in the heat of the sun. 
1 A. TELEPHIA'sTRUM (D. C. 1. c.) leaves ovate, difformed, 
glabrous ; axillary hairs filamentous, shorter than the leaves ; 
racemes few-flowered, subpanicled. h. D.G. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope.—Dill. hort. elth. t. 281. Comm. hort, 
amst. t. 89. Portulaca Anacdmpseros, Lin. spec. 639. Haw. 
misc. p. 141. Talinum Anacampseros, Willd. spec. 2. p. 862. 
D. C. pl. grass. t. 3. Haw. syn. 124. Rulíngia varians, Haw. 
ex Spreng. Rulingia Anacámpseros, Ehrh. beitr. 3. p. 133. 
Anacámpseros varians, Sweet. Flowers reddish. Seeds very 
much winged. Cotyledons in the germinating plant 2, thick, 
somewhat trigonal, convex beneath, with a very short caulicule. 
Telephium-like Anacampseros. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1813. 
Pl. į foot. 
2 A. INTERME`DIA ; leaves very numerous and dense, expanded, 
flat, convex on the outside, retusely deltoid at the apex ; axil- 
lary threads twisted, brown. h. D. G. Native of the Cape 
of Good Hope. Rulingia intermèdia, Haw. in phil. mag. march 
1828. Very like 4. polyphylla, but almost one half smaller, 
but taller; also like 4. filamentdsa, but broader; the leaves 
more numerous, more crowded, paler ; and the axillary threads 
are yellow, not white. 
Intermediate Anacampseros. Fl. Ju. Jul. Cit. 1824. Pl. 4 ft. 
3 A. ARAcHNOIDEs (Sims, bot. mag. t. 1368.) leaves ovate, 
acuminated, difformed, green, shining, cobwebbed ; axillary hairs 
filamentous, shorter than the leaves; racemes simple; petals 
lanceolate. h. D. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Por- 
tulàca arachnoides, Haw. misc. p. 142. Rulingia arachnoides, 
Haw. syn. p. 125. _Talinum_arachnoides, Ait. hort. kew. ed. 
2. vol. 3. p. 149. Flowers white, hardly with a tinge of purple. 
Bracteas scarious, jagged. Seeds with a short wing. 
Cobmebbed Anacampseros. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1790. Pl. 
1 to $ foot. i 
4 A. ru‘sens (D. C. prod. 3. p. 356.) leaves ovate, acumin- 
ated, difformed, shining, dark green, somewhat reflexed at the 
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