4G4 DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Talinum: 
Teling. Pail-kura. A. 
Beng. Nooniya. 
Its flowers open at noon, and shut at two. It is com-’ 
mon in gardens, chiefly as a weed, though much used by 
the natives of Coromandel, as a pot-herb. 
3. P. guadrifida. Willd. 2. 860. 
Creeping ; joints hairy. Leaves oblong, fleshy. Flow- 
ers subsessile, with four floral leaves ; petals four; sta-. 
mens ten or twelve. 
Teling. Pedda pail-kura. 
It is much like P. meridiana, but a much rarer plant, and 
considerably larger in all its parts, in the form, &e. of its 
stems, branches, leaves, hairs that surround the joints, 
and the insertion of the leaves and flowers, four terminal 
leaves, or bractes, &c. they are nearly alike ; but in this 
species there are from ten to twelve stamens, and always: 
four stigmas, which are the chief marks by which it is dis- 
tinguished from meridiana, 
_ The natives do not eat this sort ; they reckon it very 
unwholesome, and apt to produce stupefuction: 
The flowers expand at or before noon, and continue 
open till near sun-set ; this is another circumstance which 
marks its being a distinct species, and no variety of P. 
meridiana, — 
4. P. tuberosa. R. ee pe 4 
Root tuberosus and villous, Leaves alternate, lance 
olate. Flowers terminal. . . 
A native of the Circars. It flowers during the rainy 
season, 
TALINUM. Juss. ie 
Calys two-leaved.. Corol five-petalled. Germ super ne 
or, one-celled, many-seeded ; attachment inferior. bana ae 
sule three-valved, one-celled. Seeds several. eg a! 
