Mollugo.] CARYOPHYLLEZ (Sond.) 137 
Annual or suffruticose, branched, prostrate, glabrous, or stellato-pubescent, weed- 
like plants, found in all tropical and sub-tropical countries. Leaves alternate or 
pseudo-verticillate, entire or denticulate. Flowers in clusters or umbels, opposite 
the leaves, sessile and crowded, or solitary at the nodes, and on long pedicels. The 
_hame is yAwos, an old name for the maple, arbitrarily affixed to this genus. 
1. G. lotoides (Lin. sp. p. 663); tomentose, with simple and stellate 
pubescence ; stems diffuse, branching; leaves whorled, unequally ob- 
ovate, tapering into a petiole ; flowers whorled, the pedicels shorter than 
the calyx; stamens 3-12. Fenzl, An. Wein. Mus. 1. p. 357. Mollugo 
hirta, Thunb. Cap. p.120. D.C. Prod. 1. p. 391. E. §& Z. | No. 1818, 
Var. a. candida (Fenzl); whole plant densely albo-tomentose. 
Var. 8, pubescens (Fenzl); less tomentose, greenish. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ In sandy places, Oliphant’s River, £. 4 Z./ Hills near 
George, Drege/ Dreifontein, Oliphant’s River and Aapje’s River, Zeyher, 612. 
(Herb. T.C.D., Sond.). = 
Annual, branched from the base. Stems $-1 foot long, somewhat woody at the 
base, terete, as thick as a crow’s quill. Leaves obovate, obtuse or shortly acute, the 
radical rosulate, fugacious, on longish petioles, cauline very unequal, sub-undulate at 
the margin, ribbed and veined, lamina 3-8 lines long, narrowed into a petiole half 
: that length. Flowers 2-8, umbellate, axillary. Sepals oblongo-lanceolate, 2-2} lines 
long, inflexed at point, mucronulate. Petals often none. Capsule shorter than the 
calyx. Seeds very minute, brownish, muricato-tuberculate. 
| 2. G. Mollugo (Fenzl, lc. p. 359); herbaceous, glabrous; branches 
| downy at the point ; stems dichotomous ; leaves whorled, unequal, ob- 
ovate-oblong or lanceolate, very entire or denticulate at the apex ; 
flowers axillary, whorled, pedicels 2-4 times longer than the calyx; sepals 
oblong, pointless; stamens 3-10. 
Var. Natalensis (Sond.) ; stem erect, leaves inch long, ovate-oblong 
or oblong, acute, tapering into the petiole, serrulate; flowers on longish 
pedicels ; sepals acute; stamens generally eight. Mollugo serrulata, 
Sond. Linn, 23. 1. p. 15. xe = 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius/ (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.). ivan 
Annual, a foot long, with erecto-patent branches. Internodes 11-2 inches long. 
Leaves in fours, the larger one inch long, 4 lines wide, narrowed into a petiole 2-3 __ 
lines long. Peduncles 4-6, about 4 lines long. Sepals 2 lines long, membrane edged. 
St, hypogynous, filaments sub-unequal, broader at base ; anthers sub-emarginate at 
base, 3-furrowed, 3-celled ; ovules on short funiculi. Stigmata 3, linear- 
terete, Capsule 14 line long, obtuse, not inflated in the middle, 3-celled, 
3-valved. Seeds very small, blackish brown, minutely muriculate ; the strophiole 
white. 
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XVI. MOLLUGO. L. 
Calyx 5-parted. Petals none. Stamens 3-5, rarely 6-10, hypogynous, 
those of the outer row alternating with the sepals, or when fewer than _ 
5, Opposite the ovarian-dissepiments. Anthers minute, globose, Hypo- 
gynous-dise none. Style scarcely any ; stigmata 3, linear, Capsule 
thinly membranous, 3-celled, bluntly 3-angled, 3-furrowed, 3-valved, : 
loculicidal ; valves septiferous in the middle, the cells many-seeded. — 
Seeds globose, not carunculate at the hilum. Zndl. Gen. 5186. Fendi, 
Lc. 2. p. 246. 3 ee 
