54 CARYOPHYLLE.E. 



filiform ; angles subcrenate. — E. maculata, ft, PI. Carib. E. callitrichoides, Kth., et tenella, 

 Kth. sec. Engelm. — Hab. Jamaica !, Dist., March, to Trinidad !, Lochh., Cr. ; [Louisiana ! 

 to Panama !, Cuba !, Canary Islands !, Nubia !]. 



115. E. pilulifera, L. Annual, diffuse or erect, pubescent; leaves semiovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, pointed, oblique at the base, serrate ; cymes axillary and terminal, contracted : pe- 

 duncles exceeding the petiole ; involucre with minute, rounded glands ; capsule hairy ; seeds 

 ecarunculate, pale, tetragonal, transversely rugulose : wrinkles about six, obtuse. — Desc. Fl. 

 3 t. 227. — E. hirta, L. E. o*bliterata, Jacq., Sw. — Leaves 6"'-12"' long. — Hab. Jamaica !, 

 Macf., Dist., March ; Antigua !, Dominica !, S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad!, Schach, Cr., 

 [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to Buenos Ayres !, and all other tropical countries]. 



116. S. hypericifolia, L. Annual, erect or ascending ; leaves oblong or lanceolate, 

 oblique at the base, serrulate or repand ; cymes terminal, and the axillary ones exserted ; in- 

 volucre with the rounded glandular appendages often petaloid ; capsule obtuse-angled, with 

 3 filiform keels ; seeds ecarunculate, blackish, obtusely tetragonal, transversely wrinkled : 

 wrinkles about three to four, obsolete. — SI. 1. 126. — Stem l'-3' high, at length suffrutescent ; 

 leaves 1"— 2" long; cymes loose or contracted; petaloid margin of the appendages broad or 

 obsolete. 



a. Glabrous ; leaves oblong or oblong-linear, blunt ; capsule glabrous. 



£. hyssopifolia, L. Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, tapering towards the pointed or bluntish 

 top ; capsule smooth. 



y. lasiocarpa, Kl. Stems villous above ; leaves oblong, blunt ; cymes contracted ; capsule 

 villous. — E. Berteriana, Balb., Gr. PL Carib. — Hab. Jamaica"!, all collectors, common (a, fi,y) 

 to Trinidad !, Lockh., Cr. (a and 0) ; [United States ! to Chili !, Australia !, Verona !, Sicily !, 

 Madeira!]. 



§ 4. Shrubs or herbs ; leaves exstipulate, inferior alternate ; involucres in a 

 terminal cluster. 



117. E. punicea, Ait. Shrubby, glabrous; leaves lanceolate, quite entire, coriaceous; 

 bracts crimson, interior 2-3, ovate-roundish, much exceeding the terminal, 5-rayed cluster ; 

 involucre with 5-6, rounded, flat glands; seeds . . . — Sm. Ic. Pict. t. 3; Jacq. Ic. Bar. t. 

 484; Desc. Fl. 3. t. 194.— 15'-20' high; leaves 6"-l" long; interior bracts 12"'-8'" long. 

 — Hab. Bahamas!, Swains.; Jamaica!, Wits., in rocky mountains; [Cnba!]. 



118. E. heterophylla, L. Annual (or biennial), glabrous or puberulous ; leaves dif- 

 form, ovate, fiddle-shaped, and linear ; involucres pedicellate, with 5 incised lobes : glands 

 cyathiform, sessile, 5-1 (or abortive) ; seeds subglobose, tubercled : caruncle very minute. — 

 An erect or ascending, very polymorphons herb ; leaves quite entire, or serrate-sinuate, upper 

 ones and bracts usually with a red blotch. 



o. Leaves either all linear, entire, or most of them ovate, serrate, with the bracts linear. 

 —Plum. Ed. Burm. t. 251./. 3 : the latter form. 



/3. cyathophora, Jacq. Leaves fiddle-shaped, with two large teeth, or ovate, entire ; bracts 

 lanceolate. — Jacq. Ic. Bar. t. 480 : a higher, suffrutesceut form. 



y. prunifolia, Jacq. Leaves ovate or elliptical, serrate, long-petioled, uppermost opposite; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate. — Jacq. Schcenbr. t. 277-— Hab. Bahamas!, Swains.; Jamaica ^, 

 Wils., March {a, y); Trinidad!, Cr. (7); [Illinois! to Peru!]. 



§ 5. Leaves exstipulate, alternate below the umbellate inflorescence. 



119*. E. Peplus, L. Annual, glabrous; leaves obovate, petioled, quite entire; umbel 

 3-rayed ; glands of the involucre bicornute ; capsule glabrous : cocci 2-keeled ; seeds carun- 

 culate, subhexagonal : 4 dorsal facets 4-pilted, 2 anterior channelled with a longitudinal 

 groove. — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica!, March; [introduced from Europe]. 



XX. CAEYOPHYLLE^]. 



[Portulacese. Picoidese] 

 Ovary unilocular, with a central placenta, or syncarpous : styles mostly several. Embryo 

 excentrical: perisperm central, mealy. — Herbs, with tumid nodes; leaves quite entire, usu- 

 ally opposite. 



