136 CARYOPHYLLEZ (Sond.) [Glinus. 
1. D. cordata (Willd. Hb., ex Roem. & Sch. 5. p. 406); stem and 
leaves glabrous, shortly petioled, ovato-subrotund, acute or mucronate, 
rounded at base, or obsoletely cordate; peduncles dichotomous, many- 
flowered ; calyx glabrous, longer than the petals ; ovary 7-10 ovuled. 
DC. Prod. 1. p. 395. Cham. & Schl. Linn. 1. p.47. Holosteum corda- 
tum, L. 
Has. Woods near the Hanglip, Aug. 1821., Mundt and Maire. (Herb. r. Berol). 
A weak-growing, diffuse plant, a foot or more in length; stems and branches fili- 
form, sometimes minutely puberulent. Leaves 6-8 lines long and wide, petiole 2 
lines. Stipules small. Peduncles terminal, cymoid ; flowers solitary in the forks, 
lateral peduncles elongate, 2-3 flowered or again cymoid. Calyx 2 lines long, with 
acuminate segments. A common tropical species. The Cape specimens, pre 
in the Berlin Herbarium, quite resemble the American forms, distributed by Sieber. 
Sub-Order IV. Motiueinea. (Gen, Xiv.—xx.) 
XIV. ORYGIA, Forsk. 
Calyx 5-parted, sepals of unequal length. Petals (parastemons) 15- 
30, spathulate-linear or oval, shorter than the calyx, at length confluent 
into a fleshy cup. Stamens 12-40, in the bottom of the calyx, some 
free, some united at base ; filaments subulate-triangular; anthers versa- 
tile, oblong. Ovary globose, 5-celled, many-ovuled. Stigmata 5. Cap- 
sule dry, roundish, 5-angled, 5-furrowed, 5-celled, loculicidally 5-valved. 
Seeds many, on ascending funiculi, reniform, black, concentrically fur- 
rowed, eared at the hilum. ndl. Gen. 5184. 
A suffruticose, glabrous, glaucous, much-branched, diffuse plant, found also in 
Arabia Felix and in the East Indies. Stem and branches angular. Leaves fleshy, 
orbicular, obovate or elliptical, very entire or retuse, muticous or mucronulate, alter- 
- nate, petiolate. Cymes divaricate, opposite the leaves. Flowers pedicellate, at 
DA : aoe 
umbilical str phiole, Endl. 
length refiexed ; calyces at tips and margins purplish. Name, altered from the 
Arabic name of this plant, Hérudjrudj. 
1. 0. decumbens (Forsk. descr. p, 103). DC. Prod. 3.p.455. Fenzl. 
lc. Portulaca decumbens, Vahl. Symb. 1. p. 33. Talinum decumbens, 
Willd. Sp. 2. p. 864. Axonotechium trianthemoides, Fenzl, l. c. p. 355: 
Télephium laxiflorum, Burch. DC. Prod. 3. p. 366. 
Has. Stony hills near Sondag Riv., 1500-2000 f., Drege/ Albany, Mrs. Barber! 
Rhinoster Kopf. Burke! (Herb. T.C.D., Sond.). 
Largest leaves 1-2 inches, smallest 4-6 lines long ; petiole 2—4 lines long, mem- 
-edged. Cymes sessile or pedunculate, 1-3 inches long, unequally forked, brac- 
tiddle pedicel one-flowered. Sepals 2-3 lines long, equalling the capsule. 
XV. GLENS. Loeftt. 3 
Calyx -parted, Paah ‘acivastemons ) none or indefinite, sub-peri- 
gynous, doe tee ean aah very slow ig aeea at setaceous. 
Stamens 3-20 in the base of the calyx, free or united in parcels ; fila- 
ments subulate; anthers versatile, oblong. Ovary ovate, 3~5-celled, 
many-ovuled. Stigme Capsule membranous, ovoid, 3—5-angled, 
