Portulaca.] xvm. portolacejE (oliver). 149 



3. P. quadrifida, Linn.; DC. Prod. in. 354. A prostrate and rooting 

 or decumbent annual, conspicuously woolly at the joints. Leaves plane, 

 fleshy, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, usually rather acute, i-} in. long with 

 long and numerous stipular setae. Flowers' sessile, terminal, surrounded by 

 an involucre of 4 or more leaves and numerous lanate setae. Petals 4, 

 yellow, rarely rose or purple. Seeds tubercled.— P. anceps, Rich. Fl. Abyss, 

 i- 301. {? P, rediviva, Wawra and Peyritsch, Sert. Beng. 24.) 



Upper Guinea. Confluence of Niger and Quorra, Barter ! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit. 



Lower Guinea. Loanda (and Mossamedes?), Angola, Br. Welwitsch! 



Also an Indian plant. Dr. Welwitsch describes the stamens 12 in number with pilose 

 Waments, and the style 4-cleft with patent or recurved segments. Wawra and Peyritsch 

 describe their plant as with axillary flowers. 



, 4. P. saxifragoides, Welto. mss. A low herb of 1-3 in. with sprend- 

 ln g or ascending, rather closely leafy branches, densely villous at the nodes, 

 annual (or from a rhizome of several years' duration?). Leaves fleshy, op- 

 posite, ovate, plano-convex, rather obtuse, sessile, 1-1 i lines long. Flowers 

 whitish, in terminal involucrate heads. Sepals free above, about one-third 

 the length of the petals which are 4 in number united below into a tubular- 

 campanulate corolla. Stamens 4, alternate with the petals. Style filiform, 

 2-fid. Capsules opening with a conical operculum, shining, few-seeded, 

 weds compressed, shining, punctate. 



Lower Guinea. Elevated rocky tracts, Pungo Andongo, Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! 



The above details are derived from Dr. Welwitsch's memoranda. 



5 - P. sedoides, Welw. mss. A succulent erect or diffuse di-trichoto- 

 Jious glabrous herb of 1-2 in., rose-purple or green, naked at the nodes. 

 Leaves opposite, fleshv, lanceolate or oval, 2-4 lines long. Flowers rose, 

 sessile, in forking leafy 'cymes. Corolla tubular with a 4-tid limb. Stamens 

 f. alternate with the lobes of the corolla, epipetalous ; anthers oblong. Style 

 h| ifbrm, 2-fid. Capsule membranous, subdepressed, 3-7-seeded. Seeds 

 subglobose. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



2. TALINUM, Adans. ; Beuth. et Hook. f. Ge"n. PI. i. 157. 



. Sepals 2, deciduous or subpersistent. Petals 5, hypogynous. Stamens 

 '"definite, hypogynous or adherent to the base of the petals. Ovary su- 

 P e .nor, multiovuiate. Style 3-fid. Capsule globose or ovoid, papery or 

 h »»y crustaceous, dehiscing in 2-3 valves. Seeds compressed or subglo- 

 ,,0 se, shining or radiate-striate.— Succulent glabrous herbs or shrubs. Leaves 

 fhuie, alternate or subopposite. Stipules 0. Flowers racemose or pamcu- 

 lat e, rarely solitary. 



4 ; small genus, principally American, confined to wann climates. One species is peculiar 

 10 "le-Cape flora. 



Inflorescence racemose or paniculate. 

 ^ves elliptic, or oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, emarginatc. Flowers „,.„,„•,•„/,•„„, 



"> a loose, forking, few-flowered panicle I. T. crassifohmn . 



