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IMolluga. 



e. M. nudicaulis, ZmnL Diet iv. 234 ; glabrous, stems many leafless 

 rising from a tuft of radical leaves. JDC, Pi'odr. i. 391 ; WaU. CaL 648 ; W. 

 %A. Prodr. 43. M. beUidifolia, Seringe in DC. Pfodr. I 391. Pharnaceum' 

 spathulatum, Spremg, Syst. i. 948. — Alsine, Burnt, FL Zeyl. t. 8. ^ 



From the Punjab to Ceylon in the hotter drier parts of India ; not in Bengal 



DisTKiB. New Caledonia, Tropical Africa, Cuba. * _ •' 



Leaves 1-2 in., elliptic, tapering to the base. Scapes 3-8 in., wiry, repeatedly 

 dichotomous. Sepals ^ in., oblong. Stamens 5-3 (OliA^er). Stigmas 3, ve^ 

 small. Capsule as long as the sepals, somewhat ellipsoid, many-seeded. Seeds black, 

 a microscopic scale appendaged to the hilum, obscurely ridged on the back, shmmg, 

 closely densely reticulated, very obscurely rough not tuberculated ; embryo curved 

 through half a semicircle — New Caledonian examples have the seeds rougher, and a^ 

 very short linear spur added to the appendage. Cuban examples resemble &®^®^^^ 

 the Indian, but one of them has the stem very woody thick branched densely packed 

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 late, aboimdinff in ranh 



Leaves opposite or falsely whorled, fleshy, spa- 

 ides: stipules 0. J'/ow^/ sessile and pedicelled, 



greenish 

 learly free, ovate, herbaceous vsrith 



Stamens (in the Indian species) 5, hypogynous. Carpels 5-3, distmct ; w;n- 



3ne basal ovule. Fruit of 5, free, 

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with papillae. Roxh. Cor. PI. t. 183 (not good) ; Wight Ic. t. 1167 ; A. i^u 



Prodr. xiii. pt. ii. 27; Kurz in Jouim. Linn. ^oc. 1877, pt. ii. HI- G- 1^^^* 



Wight Ic. t. 1168. G. linearifolia, Schum.: A. DC. Prodr. l-c. 



Pharnaceum occultmn, Forsk. FL jEy 



The Punjab, Scinde. 

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or subopposite ; stipules 0. Flowers bracteate, cyme^ ^ i^^^ifi^ or unisex 



uai, small, green. Sepals 6, nearly free, ovate, heFbaceous with membranous ^lar- 

 gins. Petals (in tlie Indian species) 3-5, small. Stame^u 



dilated downwards and somewhat connate at the 1 



5-10, hypogpous 



rtically into two coriaceous hemispherical cocci, which at length ^^^-^q. 



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