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^ Papillse or nearly glabrous. Leaves I-l| in,, oblong or elliptic; petiole } in. 

 Flowers in sessile clusters. Calyx-lobes ovate, often scarious on the margin, bracts 

 scarious. Capsule ^ in. ; beak consisting of two lanceolar portions acute upwards, 

 coriaceous, closely adnate to the included seed. Seeds in the lower half of the cap- 

 sule 2, dull black, roughly puberulous, the concentric lineation very obscure. 



4. T. decandra, Idnn. Mant, 70 ; stamens 10, beak of the fruit truncate 

 consolidated with the two included seeds indehiscent or only finally splitting. 

 Itoxh. HoH. Beng. 34, Fl. Ind. ii. 444; DC. Pt'odr. iii. 352; Wall. Cat. 6839; 

 W. ^ A. Pi'odr. 355 ; Wight Ic. t. 296 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bmnb. FL 15 ; Kurz in 

 Joum. As. Sve. 1877, pt. ii. 110. Zaleya decandra, Burm. Fl. Ind. t 31, tig. 3. 



>^ Deccak Peninsula and Ceylon. — Disteib. Timor ; Aya (ex Kurz). 



--■■ Glabrous or minutely papillose. Leaves 1-1^ in., oblong or elliptic; petiole 



^-:J in. Flowers in nearly sessile clusters. Calyx-lobes ovate, usually obtuse, often 



scarious on the margins ; bracts scarious. Capsule J in., beak a trnncate solid 



eylmder, not at all or very obscurely mitriform. Seeds 4, 2 lower dull black puber- 



moiis, with numerous faint concentric raised lines. — Closely allied to the preceding 

 species. 



5. T. hydaspica, Edgtv. in Joum. Linn. Sac. vi, 203 ; stamens 5-7, 

 ^k of the fruit conical thin not completely enclosing a seed. T. polyspemia. 



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.i Minutely papillose or glabrous, Leaves J-1 in., oblong or elliptic, often with 

 scarious margins ; petiole ^— ^ ^°- Flowers sessile, solitary and clustered. Calyx-tube 

 lO-ribbed ; lobes triangular-elongate, acute, dilated at base so that there appear to be 

 5 interjected auricles. Capsule \ in. ; beak elongate-conical, hollow. Seeds about 

 ^0-15, dull black, with puberulous raised undulating lines that radiate from the 

 centre (and thus are in a direction at right angles to the lines on the seeds of the 

 lour preceding species).— Flowers separated, or clustered. T. polysperma, Oliv. is 

 ^(listinguishable from some of Stocks' Seinde specimens. DipUichonitim sesuvioides, 

 Fenzlin Harv. ^ Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 473 is separated by the very numerous stamens 



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A rigid branched glabrous herb. Leaves opposite and alternate, fleshy, 

 ^^tire ; stipules 0. Cymes terminal and leaf-opposite, lax, few-flowered. Sepals 

 5j nearly free, ovate. Petals 0. Staminodes many, small, subhypogynous. Sta- 

 ^ie^w 12 or more, subhypogynous. Ovary free, globose, 5-ribbed, 5-celled ; styles 

 ^; filiform ; ovules many, axile. Capsule globose, papery, wrapped in the per- 

 sistent sepals ; cells 5, dehiscing dorsally. Seeds many, reniforra, strophiolate ; 

 ^nihryo annular. 



J, 1- O. decumbens, JbrsA;. Fl. Mg. Arab. 103; DC. Ptodr. iii. 455; 



^m. Fl. Orient. \. 765. Glinus trianthemoides, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 231 ; 

 ■^C'v/.c. ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 362; Wight III. t. 113. G. mucronata, Klotzsch. m 

 ^eiers Rets. Mosmmh T^'^* 1 40. t. 25. Portulaca decumbens, Vahl Symb. i. 33. 

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