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•■ ; Tkibe II. MoUugrlneae. Calyx deeply 5-partite. Stamens hypogynous. 



t Carpels dehiscing dorsatly. 



Petals many, small, hypogynous 4. Okygta. 



retals 0. Stipules scarious, fugacious • . 5. Mollugo. 



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Carpels 3-5, separate in the flower 6. Gisekia. 



Carpels 2, combined in the flower 7. Ltmettm. 





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^posite, entire ; stipules 0. Flowers axillary, solitary or in spikes or cymes. 

 Calyx-tube short ; lobes 5-4, spreading, yellow within. Petals 0. Stamens many, 

 inserted near the top of the calyx-tube. Ovary free, 5-4-celIed, depressed, 

 nearly included in the calyx-tube ; styles 5-i, free, subulate ; ovules several in 

 each cell. ^ Capsule almost woody, smTOunded by the persistent calyx, 5-celled, 

 wis splitting from the top downwards dorsally. Seeds 2 or several in each cell, 

 reniform; embryo annular. — Distrib. Species 8, from Europe to S. Africa, 

 «nd from the Canaries to Scinde : one aberrant snecies in Australia. 



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1. A. canariense, Linn,] Botss, Fl, Orient, ii. 765; leaves petioled 

 "7 elliptic, capsules sessile numerous, the valves inflexed. DC, PL Grass. 



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SciNDE ; Stocks, Vicary. — Distrib- Affghanistan, Arabia, Africa. 



Small, woody, closely procumbent, repeatedly dividing. Leaves 1-1^ in., papil- 

 lae and simply hairy or toraentose, petiole 0-i in. Flowers in nearly every axil. 

 ^<^t't/x-lobes § in. ovate. Caps^de | in. broad, the summit when looked down upon 

 Pentagonal. Seeds black, smooth, with a few continuous raised ridges concentric 

 With regard to the unappendaged hilum. 





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.Succulent branching herbs. Leaves opposite, fleshy; stipules 0. Floivers 

 I^k!!^' sessile or peduncled, solitary, rarely in cymes. Calyx-tube short; 

 ^obes 6, triangular-lanceolate, persistent, often coloured. Petals 0. Stamem 

 ?^ny or 6, inserted round the summit of the calyx-tube. Ovary iree, ' 



^ , «v— 3-5; ovules many, axile. Capsule ovate-oblong, membranous, 

 ^S^elled, circumsciss. Seeds many in each cell, reniform ; embryo annular.— 



^' 1- S. Portulacastrum, Linn. ; Roxh Fl Ind. ii. 509 ; dabrous, styles 

 ^^} seeds black shining smooth. Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 15 ; Kurz in Journ. 

 ^; ^oc. 1877, pt. ii. 110. S. repens, Willd. ; DC. Pr-odr. iii. 463 ; WaU. Cat. 

 ^; W. ^ A. Prodr. 361 ; Wtyht in. Hook. Comp. Bot. Map. ii. 71, t. 23. 

 *?*immanthe marina, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 660. 



Seashores of India, from Bombay to Calcutta and Singapowi-^-Distbib. Tro- 



** cal and subtropical seashores. . . o • /. 



pniall, or extensively creeping and rooting in sand. Leaves ^-2 in., from obovate 

 ^unear spathulate or subcylindric ; petiole often dilated at base with scarious mar- 



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