Portulaca. DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 463 
Nectarium, a slender, crenulate cup round the insertion 
ofthe petals. Germ round, echinate, three-celled, with 
two seeds in each, attached to the upper end of the axis. 
Style simple, length of the petals. Stigma minute, obscure- 
ly three-toothed. © Capsule globose, of the size of a pea, 
brown, and of a tough coriaceous texture, armed with 
numerous, diverging uncinate, backwardly hispid bristles, 
marked with three small sutures, which do not open, 
(three-celled.) Seeds two in each cell, obliquely ovate, of a 
brown colour. Integuments two, the exterior one thin, the 
inner one thick and tough. Perisperm conform to the 
seed. Embryo straight, inverse,the length of the perisperm, 
yellowish. Cotyledons oval. Radicle cylindric, superior. 
2. T. Bartramia. Willd. 2, 854. 
Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves with the anterior part © 
three-lobed, serrate, hairy. Flowers axillary. 
Beng. Bun-okra. 
Lappago Amboinica. Rumph. Amb. 6. p. 59. t. 25. a fe 
A native of various parts of India. 
PORTULACA. Schreb. gen. n. 824. 
Calyx two-cleft. Corol four or five-petalled. Capsule 
circumcised. * 
ae elivaces Willd. 2. 859. 
Leaves cunieform. Flowers sessile. 
“Hind. and Beng. Loonya or Nooniya shak. 
Arab. Khurfa also Tooruk. 
2. P. meridiana. Willd. 2. 861. 
Annual, creeping, the joints hairy. Leaves oblong, 
fleshy. Flowers subsessile, with four floral leaves and a 
hairy involucre. Petals four. Stamina from six to eight. 
Nela tsjera. Rheed. Mal. 10, t. 31. which Willdenow — 
uotes for his Oldenlandia depressa, Are they thesame? 
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