WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 931 
1. Talinopsis frutescens A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 15. pl. 8. 1852. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mountain valleys, seventeen miles east of the Rio Grande, Texas. 
Rance: Western Texas and New Mexico to Mexico. 
New Mexico: Tortugas Mountain. Dry rocky hills, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 
3. TALINUM Adans. 
Low glabrous perennials; leaves fleshy, terete to broad and flat, basal or cauline; 
stamens 5 to 30; style 3-lobed; capsules subglobose or oblong, with numerous shining 
seeds. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Flowers axillary. 
Leaves flat, not crowded; seeds conspicuously costate. 
Petals yellow; leaves linear; stems suffrutescent at 
the base, stiff, almost erect; capsule globose, 
4 to 5 mm. in diameter............--------.---- 2. T. angustissimum. 
Petals orange to orange scarlet; leaves widest at or near 
the middle; stems fleshy, ascending or spread- 
ing; capsules ovoid, 5 to 7 mm. long............. 3. T. aurantiacum. 
Leaves terete or slightly flattened, crowded; seeds smooth. , 
Petals about 10 mm. long; leaves short, 12 mm. long or 
less, comparatively broad; sepals obtuse or 
nearly so; pedicels stout, much shorter than the 
sepals...........2-20- 02 eee ee eee eee eee eee 4. T. brevifolium. 
Petals about 15 mm. long; leaves longer, 12 to 20 mm., 
slender; sepals acute; pedicels slender, equaling 
or longer than the sepals. ........---------- ... 5. T. pulchellum. 
Flowers in terminal cymes, these sometimes panicled. 
Leaves flat, obovate; flowersin panicled cymes...-..-..--- 1. T. paniculatum. 
Leaves terete; flowers in terminal cymes. 
Inflorescence shorter than the leaves or at most not 
exceeding them; plants low, 5 to 8 cm. high; 
flowers yellow.......-..-00-- eee eee e eee eee eee 6. T. humile. 
Inflorescence much exceeding the leaves; plants 
larger, 8 to 30 cm. high; flowers pink to purplish 
red. 
Sepals orbicular; capsules globose or nearly s0; 
pedicels slender, usually twice as long as 
the capsules or more; stamens 10....-.--.-...- 7. T. longipes. 
Sepals acute or acuminate, ovate to lanceolate; 
capsules oblong; pedicels stout, little if at all 
exceeding the capsules; stamens 5. 
Inflorescence congested, most of the flowers 
nearly sessile; sepals purplish; leaves * 
stout, not noticeably narrowed at the 
base... 222... eee eee eee eee eee ee ee eee 8. T. confertiflorum. 
Inflorescence loose, all the flowers con- 
spicuously pediceled; sepals green; 
leaves slender, much narrowed at the 
base... 2.2... eee eee eee eee eee eee 9. T. parviflorum. 
Talinum calycinum Engelm. should be found in the northeastern part of the State; 
it is possible that its type locality is inside our borders. In habit it resembles 
T. parviflorum, but it has much larger flowers and 30 or more stamens. 
