78 - PORTULACEZ. 
1. PORTULACA. 
Portulaca, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 603; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant.i. p. 156. 
Herbs, some fleshy; about sixteen species, natives of tropical countries, principally — 
American, two of which are widely diffused in cultivated and sandy ground in temperate 
regions. 
1. Portulaca oleracea, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 638; Schkuhr, Handb. t. 130. 
Widely dispersed in tropical and subtropical regions, both in the OLD Wor.p and 
America, including Mexico and CenrraL America. Hb. Kew. 
2. Portulaca pilosa, Linn. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 57; Bot. Reg. t. 792. 
? Portulaca foliosa, DC., Calques des Dess. Fl. Mex. 389, nec Lindley, Bot. Reg. t. 793. 
New Mexico; Trexas.—Nortu Mexico, region of San Luis Potosi, 6000 to 8000 feet 
(Parry & Palmer, 66), without locality (Gregg, 134); Sourn Mexico, Vera Cruz to 
Orizaba (fF. Miller, 208), Pedregal (Bourgeau, 476); Guatemaa, without locality 
(Friedrichsthal).—And southward to Perv and Brazit, as well as in the West Inp1an 
Istanps. Hb. Kew. 
2. TALINOPSIS. 
Talinopsis, A. Gray, Pl. Wright. i. p. 15; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 157. 
At present limited to the following species :— 
1. Talinopsis frutescens, A. Gray, Pl. Wright. i. p. 15, t. 3. 
New Mexico.—Nortu Mexico, region of San Luis Potosi, 6000 to 8000 feet (Parry 
& Palmer, 67). Hb. Kew. 
3. TALINUM. 
Talinum, Adans. ex Juss. Gen. p. 312; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. i. p. 157. 
About a dozen species, herbs and undershrubs, natives of tropical and subtropical 
regions; two are African or Asiatic, and the rest American. 
1. Talinum aurantiacum, Engelm. in A. Gray, Pl. Lindh. ii. p. 154. 
Texas and New Mexico to—Nortu Mexico, sandy places, Sonora (Schott, Thurber, 
Coulter), region of San Luis Potosi, 6000 to 8000 feet (Parry & Palmer, 68), 
Monterey (Edwards & Eaton, 4); Sours Muxico, Zimapan (Coulter, 714, 7 15). 
Hb. Kew. | | 
2. Talinum lineare, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. p. 77. 
SoutH Mexico, in dry places between Mexico and Real de Pachuca, and near Gasave 
in the valley of Tenochtitlan, 7380 feet (Humboldt & Bonpland). 
