Porfulaca 



POKTULACACE/E 



171 



Stems somewhat shrubby, to 6 in. high. Leaves '5-1 cm. 1. Calyx 

 4-5 mm. 1. Petals 5-1 mmA. Stamens 12-16. Stijle divided at ^ to 

 of its height into 5-7 linear branches. Capsule globulose, 2 "5-3 mm. in 

 diam., circumsciss at the middle or a little above. Seeds 23-35. 



2. TALINUM Adans. 



Glabrous herbs. Stipules wanting. Flowers in terminal 

 panicles or racemes. Sepals herbaceous, deciduous or sub- 



Fig. 64. Talinum paniculatum Gaertn. 



A, L'pper portiou of flowering shoot X . 



B, Bud X 5. 



C, Flower with part of the sepals aud 



two of the petals removed x 5. 



D, Capsule with part of the wall removed 



X5. 



E, Do. cut across x .5. 



F, Seed in section x 10 : e, endosperm ; 



c, cotyledons ; r, radicle. 



persistent. Petals 5. Stamens 10-30, adherent to the base of 

 the petals. Ovary free , style trifid. Capsule 3-valved. 

 Species about 19, natives of warm regions. 



Flowers not exceeding 



Inflorescence paniculate. 



^in. 1 1. 



Inflorescence generally racemose. Flowers exceeding 



T. paniculatum. 



i in. 1 2. T. triangulare. 



1. T. paniculatum Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 219 /. 128 (1791) ; 

 pedicels terete; sepals deciduous.-- ?7r/>. Si/mh. Ant. ic. 231. 

 T. patens Wllhl Sp. PI. ii. 863 (1800); Grisch. Fl. Br. W. 

 Ind. 57 ; Bohrb. in. Fl. Bras. .civ. pf. 2, 296^ /. G7. T. fruticosum 



