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Steins 6-18 in,, somewhat angular or trigonous. Leaves |-1 in., obovate, cuspi- 

 date ; petiole ^ in. Cymes with small lanceolate bracts at their divisions ; flowers 

 ^ in. diam., pedicelled. Sepals purplish-green, with scarious edges, acute. Capsuh 

 I in. diam. Seeds black, not shining, with numerous concentric elevated lines. 



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Herbs, branched, often dicliotomous. Leaves often falsely whorled., or 

 alternate, or all radical, from linear to obovate, entire ; stipules c^uickly disap- 

 pearing. Flowers axillary, sessile or pedicelled, clustered or in cymes or 

 racemes, small, greenish ; oracts inconspicuous. Sepals 5, persistent. Petals ; 

 staminodes or small in the same species. Stamens 5-3, rarely many. Ovary 

 free, globose or ellipsoid, 3-5-celled ; styles 3-6, linear or veiy small ; oviiles 

 many, axile. Capsule membranous, sheathed by the sepals, 3-5-celled, dehiscmg 

 dorsally. Seeds seyeral in eacb cell, rarely 1, renifonn, appendaged or not at the 

 Mum; embryo annular. — Distrib. Snecies 12. tronical and subtropical. 



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* Seeds with an appendage at the hilum, injlorescence in axillary clusters. 



■ 1. M. hirta, Thuiib. Fl. Cap. 120 ; flowers sessile or pedicelled, appen- 

 dage of the seed a membranous scale from which proceeds a linear hristle that 

 curls half round the seed. DC. Prodr. i. 391. M. Glinus, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 

 i. 48 : Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 110. Glinus lotoides, Linn. ; Lamh. \ 



iii. 455 ; Wall. Cat. 1517 ; W.^A. Prodr. 362 ; Sibth.- 

 Fl. Grcee. t. 472 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 16 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 755. «• 

 dictamnoides, Linn. Mant. 243 ; DC. I. e. ; Wall. Cat. 1518 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 

 362. BoiAs. I.e. i. 756. G. parviflora. Wall. Cat. 1519. Pharnaceum pent 

 ^oTanm, Roxb. Hort. Beag. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 103. Tryphera prostrata, Blume\ 

 A. DC. P-odr. xiii. pt. ii. 424. . 



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Throughout India and Ceyix)n, common. — Distrib. All warm regions 



_ _ __._^ , rarely glabrous. Stem prostrate, mucli 



branching, leafy. Leaves ^-1 in., opposite or whorled, usua^^'^ rA^r^^ra^^ l^nt, varvfrom 



bairy 



^^ or wnoriea, usuaiiy uuuvatc uu.^ .«*^ — - ^ 



roimd to narrow-lanf»eolaf« • t^Afmio n J. im Flowers usually sessile or nearly so; 



Staminodei 



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pedicels sometimes J in. Sepals ^-^ in,, elliptic or oblong, acute, 

 or 0. Stamens usually 10 or more but vary to 6. Styles 3-6, linear, short 

 sule a little shorter than the sepals, oblong. Seeds many, covered with raised tuber- 

 cular points ; the appendage sometimes carrying more than one bristle.— A variable 

 weed of which the following are the most notice-worthy varieties. • * 



. VAR. 1, typica; flowers sessile, sepals ^ in. more or less stellately tomentose. 

 Gimus dictamnoides, W, ^ A. Prodr. 362. t- 



^ Vae. 2. lotoides, W. # A, Prodr, 362 (sp.); pedicels of the flowers ^-f in., sepais 

 i in. stellately tomentose.— Hills of the Deccan PENiNsriA. . 



Var. 3. Kee)iani; stem slightly pubescent, leaves glabrous petioled '^"^®*^^ ,' 

 flowers sessile, sepals ^ in. glabrous with scarious margins, capsule oblong the seea^ 

 clearly seen through the walls, seeds exactly of Var. 1 but smaller than iJ^uai. 

 Cachar, R, L. Keeiuxn ; possibly a good species but it can be nearly matched out ox 

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 Cat, 653 



Spergrula, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 391 



icelled, seed appendaged by a minute short suoulate bristle 

 W. & A, Prodr. 44; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 



dabrous or nearlv so, 



verticillata, Roxb. Hort. Bern. 9, Fl. Ind. i. 360, not of Linn. M. parf^?^. 



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Pharnaceum Darviflorum. Roth, Nov. 



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Mant. 561; RoxbV Hort.'Bmg.' 22', Fl. Ind. ii 102. Glinus J^<'?: 



Fend in Ann. Wien. Mm. L 359 



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