Polycarpon] xviii. CARYOPHYLLEiE. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 245 



'^ 1. P. LceflingrlaD, Benth. SHook.f. Gen. PI. i. 153, innote; glabrous or 

 inore or less pubescent, leaves cuneate linear oblong or spathulate, cymes 

 n^^D ^^ ^° *^^ forks, petals linear truncate tip toothed. P. depressa, 

 i-M T^^' "^' ^^^- P- lanuginosa, Wall, Cat. 1515 b and ? P. Benthaniii, 

 1-514. Loeflingia indica, Betz. Obs. 38 ; Boxb. Fl Ind. i. 165 ; Pharnaceutn 

 Pepressum, Linn. ManL n. 564. Hapalosa Lceflingise, Wall Cat. 6962; 

 ^^ ^ghi ik Am. Prodr. 358. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India, in fields and waste places.— Distrib. Tropical 

 AMa and Africa. . 



A weed, erect or diffuse; branches 6-10 in. Leaves |-f in., 

 ^ym* fascicled or panicled. Flowers \ in. diam. Sepah subequ 



acute or obtuse. 



^fto/« entire or notched, 

 "«2u:Ij straight. 



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19. POZ.-rCAIlPSA.Lamk. 



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^?^^^^^r perennial, usually erect herbs. Leaves ^dA>, opposite, or ap- 

 ^nng whorled from the presence of axillary fascicles of leaves ; stipules 

 Semh^ -^-Joz/^rs numerous, in eflFuse or contracted or capitate cymes. 

 Y^ 5, scarious and often coloured, rarely scarious at the margins only. 

 ^^ 'f^^^^^^ 2-toothed or with the margins erose. Stamens b, subperi- 

 KB ! ^^ cohering together and with the petals into a tube. Ovary 

 3-valv fl' ^^ slender 3-fid or 3-dentate j ovules numerous. Capsule 

 n J^ o ^ obovoid or compressed. Embryo curved, rarely straight. 

 isxRiB. bpecies about 24, natives of warm climates. 



leavpf ' °°*y'**'>o»a» LamX^. lU. n. 2798 ; hoary tomentose or glabrescent, 

 Uof"^'"'"^^ ^^"^*'" or subulate pseudo-verticillate, stipules lanceolate or 



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P inHio r *",^^"«- Comp. Bot. Mag. ii.t. 6. P. densiflora, WaiL Cat. 151 A 

 AchvrlnA '"*• ^^<^y<^. V. 483. Paronychia subulata, Lamk. Encyd. v. 25. 

 fi /„i^ • ^ corymbosa, Linn. ; Willd. Celosia corymbosa, WUld. 1 Roxb. 

 795 T 1^ ^' Mollia spadicea ««.(/ corymbosa, WUld. i Sprmg. Syd. i. 

 t eV r^'^aya .spadicea aM(7 corvmhosa. ScAult. ? Sust. v. 405; JSarm. Zeyl. 



WaUich 



innial herb, 6-12 in. high, much dichotomously 

 icute or obtuse, much exceeding the stipules. 



'*'''"cl2i ^ ^decumbent annual or per 



lowers i r^^^^ i-1 in., acuminate acute or oDtuse, mucn exceeumg ^uc =-^ — - 

 *liite or rnl ^*'"-' '" ^^"se excesbivelj branched silvery cymes. ik]p(d* Kcarious, 

 %it fonn^T- ' Slabrous or pilose, much exceeding the petals and the capsule.— Ur. 

 '*' a well m I r^°^'^'« ('!'• "■- 44) to separate P. spadicea from P. corymbosa, even 

 *«^er tho^ I^ • ^^"'''y' ^n*! ^^ may add that we have equally failed to discriminate 

 '" *l»ich the P'^'^'^s or their synonymy.— The following seems to be a well-marked form, 

 , V^» aur^Tvi^*^"^^^^ ""ght have been applied with propriety. . . 



'*'>''ched. fl?f ' ^'6'^^ ^"- "• 44, t. 110: smaller, deasely tomentose, excessively 

 ../^ no wers much smaller highly-coloured. . . ; 



?l«ttder' w5^**^ ^^'S'^^ <fe ^rn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ixi. 91 ; glabrous, 

 '»nceolate V '"^^^'"^"^■^^'^®^'" ^r subulate ^s««4o-verticillate, senals ovate- 

 ^- 44. , „ ., y' *^^te hot much exceeding the petals or capsule 



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