102 PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Pharnaceum. 
with their extremities drooping. Leaves tubular, ob- 
liquely truncated, pointed, smooth ; in fact, they appear 
more like joints of the bark than leaves. Spikes termi- 
nal, simple, cylindric, often drooping, and so numerous 
as to compose the most beautiful drooping panicles on 
the extremities ef the branches and branchlets. Flowers 
very numerous, sessile, small, rose-coloured, inodorous. 
Bractes triangular, acute, one-flowered. 
MALE Fiowers. Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-pe- 
talled. Petals linear obloug, emarginate. Filaments five, — 
longer than the petals. Anthers purple, two-lobed, with 
a projecting gland between them. Pistillum nothing more 
in all the flowers I examined, than a three-lobed gland in 
the centre of the flower. 
. Femate HerwapuHRopire FLowers on a separate 
plant. 
Calyx asin themale. Petals rather broader than in 
the male. Filaments five, the length of the germ. An- 
thers sagittate, glands without the appearance of pol- 
len. Germ three-lobed. Styles three, longer than the 
corol, Stigmas clavate, recurved, retuse. Capsules co- 
nical, three-sided, one-celled, three-valved, hid in the 
withered calyx, and corol, Seeds numerous, compressed, 
seemingly imbricated, 
PHARNACEUM. Schreb. gen. n. 517. ‘ 
Calyx five-leaved. Corol none. Capsule three-celled, 
many seeded, 
1. P. Mollugo, Wilid. 1, 1508. | 
Annual, procumbent. Leaves verticelled, lanceolate ; 
peduncles lateral, one-flowered. Sterile filaments alter- 
nate with the stamina ; anther twin ; capsule subcylindric. 
Seeds with a reflected ‘Maient, 
Alcine erecta. Burm. Zeyl. 13. t.7. 
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