Orygia.] LXVII. FICOIDEE (OLIVER). 589 
7. ORYGIA, Forsk.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 856. 
Calyx 5-sepalous, sepals ovate cuspidate with narrow pale mem- 
.branous margins. Petals 0. Staminodia co, subhypogynous, very 
harrow, deliquescent. Stamens 12 or more, subhypozynous, free or 
obscurely coherent at base. Ovary free, globose, 5-sulcate, 5-celled ; 
styles.5; ovules oo, axile. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally in 5 valves, 
each remaining attached below to its septum; seeds oo, reniform, con- 
centrically granular-striate, minutely strophiolate.—Rigid or some- 
what wiry herb, woody at the crown; wholly glabrous; branches 
diffuse, angular. Leaves alternate, obovate- or rotundate-cuneate, api- 
culate, entire, rather fleshy, pale or glaucous, petiolate, exstipulate. 
Flowers in terminal or lateral and leaf-opposed racemose lax cymes ; 
pedicels equalling or shorter than the calyx. 
A monotypic genus of the Old World Tropics. 
1. O. decumbens, Forsh. ; DC. Prod. iii. 455. Decumbent, diffuse, 
from a few inches to 1-2 ft. in height. Leaves $—1 in. in breadth, 
Sccasionally smaller; radical leaves sometimes 1-1} in. Flowers about 
§ in. diameter.—0. mucronata, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 140 
t. (Glinus) 25. Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. 61. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Nubia, Schweinfurth! Dissée, Courbon. 
Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. (On the Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! Dr. Peters. 
Also at the Cape, and Eastward to India. 
8. MOLLUGO, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 857. 
Sepals 5, nearly equal, persistent. Petals 0. Stamens hypogynous 
Or nearly so, 3—5—co , with or without linear or filiform staminodes. 
Ovary free, 3—5-celled; stigmas as many, sessile or style very short ; 
ovules oo, axile. Capsule loculicidally 3-)-valved, oo-spermous; seeds 
subreniform, compressed, usually minutely tubercled, with or without 
Strophiole and funicle—Erect or diffuse, glabrous or tomentose, often 
annual herbs, Radical leaves rosulate, cauline pseudo-verticillate, 
Unequal, Stipules 0 or fugacious. Flowers axillary, fascicled or in 
use or umbelliform cymes. 
A smal i i . But one of the following is endemic. J. 
P auli- Vie ae ee (Aufzabl.), 267, 1 have not seen any de- 
Scription of, 
Seeds append icled at the nodes (Glinus). ‘ 
fomentoae Ply pelea tee ioels shorter fee flowers or 0 1. M. Glinus. 
Glabrous or glabrescent. Pedicels 1-5 times calyx. ee 
lowers Jin. Stamens20-30 .... - ee ena 
Flowers 4 in. or less. Stamens 5-10 . . - 6 a ee E L Spergula. 
Seeds wholly unappendaged. Flowers in sessile or pean 
lateral fora 4 or in forked or umbelliform cymes ( Humollugo). 
eaves all radical, oblanceolate, Scapes 2-3-chotomous. . . 
4. M. nudicaulis. 
