Tas. 4833. 
TALINUM ponyanprum. 
Many-stamened Talinum. 
Nat. Ord. PortuLAcE®.—DopgEcaNDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx diphyllus, deciduus, foliolis ovatis, oppositis. Corolle pe- 
tala 5, hypogyna, libera vel basibus coalita, tenerrima, fugacia. Stamina 10-30 
(et ultra), petalorum unguibus aggregatim inserta; fi/amenta filiformia ; anthere 
biloculares, ovatee, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium liberum, uniloculare. 
Ovula plurima, placentz basilari funiculis distinctis inserta, amphitropa. Stylus 
filiformis, apice trifidus, lobis patulis intus stigmatosis, vel stigmata 3, sessilia, 
arcte conniventia. Capsula chartacea, nitida, unilocularis, trivalvis, epicarpio ab 
endocarpio haud soluto, placenta basilari. Semina plurima, lenticulari- vel glo- 
boso-reniformia, testa crustacea, nitida, leevissima, striata, umbilico strophiolata. 
Embryo anuularis, albumen farinaceum cingens.—Herbze interdum suffrutescentes, 
carnos@, glaberrime, in America tropica et subtropica copiose, parcius in Capite 
Bone Spei, Arabia Felici et Oceania intertropica crescentes, foliis alternis vel sub- 
oppositis, integerrimis, exstipulatis, floribus cymosis, racemosis vel solitariis, axilla- 
ribus, purpureis flavis vel albis, fugacibus.—Endl. 
TaLInum polyandrum; annuum glabrem, caulibus ascendentibus, foliis late lineari- 
spathulatis carnosis obtusis supra linea media canaliculatis, pedunculis ter- 
minalibus elongatis apice racemosis 5—8-floris, pedicellis elongatis susecun- 
dis gracillimis demum reflexis, petalis late cuneatis remotis, staminibus 
numerosis, stigmatibus 3 filiformibus sessilibus pubescenti-glandulosis. 
The two genera Zulinum and*Calandrinia (formerly considered 
to be almost wholly confined to the New World) have long ap- 
peared to me to be undistinguishable the one from the other. 
De Candolle says of the latter, “vix a Za/ino differt :” and Messrs. 
Torrey and Gray remark that it is intermediate between Talinum 
and Claytonia. Of late years several Australian species have 
been referred to Calandrinia. Among the first was C. calyptrata, 
Hook. fil. (Ic. Plant. t. 296), detected by Mr. Gunn in Van Die- 
men’s Land (who also discovered there what has been referred 
by Dr. Hooker to Claytonia—Claytonia Australasica, Ic. Plant. 
t. 293). Major Mitchell detected two species in eastern tropical 
Australia, which are described in the journal of that traveller. 
FEBRUARY lst, 1855. 
