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bose, bursting at the apex with 10, or rarely 5, teeth (or 5 valves, each usual- 
ly divided).—Stipules none. 
152. (1) C. Indicum (W. & A.:) stems, leaves, and calyx, covered with a 
roughish viscid pubescence : stems flaccid, angled: leaves ovate or oblong, 
lanceolate, with a short mucroniform attenuation : flowers much shorter than 
the pedicels, in a small compact somewhat dichotomous panicle: petals 
searcely longer than the oblong-acutish sepals: capsules ovoid, scarcely so 
long as the calyx; teeth 10, rolled backwards, their margins flat.— Wight ! 
cat. n. 149. 
153. (2) C. vulgatum (Linn. :) hairy, nearly erect ; upper parts viscid : 
leaves ovate, obtuse: bracteas herbaceous: flowers longer than the pedicels, 
in a small somewhat capitate panicle: petals as ng as the oblong caly&: 
capsule cylindrieal, curved upwards ; teeth 10, straight, their margins rolled 
backwards.—DC. prod. 1. p. 415 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 419 ; Wight ! cat. n. 150. 
V. ARENARIA.  Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 818 ; Gerén. fr. t. 130. f. 9. 
Sepals 5. Petals 5, entire. Stamens 10 (or fewer by abortion). Styles 
2,3, or4. Capsule opening by 3, usually bipartite, valves. Seeds numerous, 
roundish, small.—Stipules none. 
154. (1) A. Neelgherrense (W. & A.:) stems elongated, much branched, 
procumbent, with an alternate line of hairs on one side: leaves distant, obo- 
vate, mucronulate, glabrous, with minute whitish points, 1-nerved ; margins 
thickened, nerve-like, ciliated towards the petiole: flowers axillary, or in 
terminal sub-dichotomous panicles: pedicels viscidly pubescent all round, 
longish, slender: sepals oblong, acute, with 1 dorsal hairy nerve; margin 
membranaceous : petals longer than the calyx: styles usually 3 (sometimes 2 
or 4): capsules ovate, nearly the length of the calyx.— Wight ! cat. n. 144, 
148.— Neelgherries. : : 
Formerly sent to Dr Wallich, by Dr Wight, as probably a Cerastium, but 
without flower: it does not seem to be noticed in his List. 
VI. MOLLUGO. Linn. ; Gertn. fr. t. 130. f. 8, 4. 
Calyx 5, parted. Petals usually none; rarely 5, minute, bifid, and alter- 
nating with the sepals. Stamens 5, opposite to the sepals, or fewer by abor- 
tion, sometimes 10. Styles 3. Capsule 3-valved, 3-celled, loculicidal, many- 
Seeded.—Leaves actually opposite, and without stipules ; but by abortion ap- 
E parently alternate, with 2 stipules ; containing in their axils several leaves 
| Surrounding the base of the young branch, and forming radical or lateral 
opposite to the peduncles: hence they are usually said to be verticil- 
te. 
In all the Caryophylle, the two opposite petioles are united together into a little 
sheath, more or ba eni Bare sd t the feanch ; in this genus one of the e 
15 abortive, but its petiole is split-up, leaving a portion, like a stipule, attached on 
each side to the base of the petiole of the perfect leaf. Perhaps for the same Dowd 
elephium and Corrigiola might be removed to this order. However vd e 
di rtion may appear, the leaves, we conceive, are, philosophically speaking, all ra- 
cal, with leafless scapes, each laterally proliferous about its middle. — 
155. (1) M. nudicaulis (Linn.:) leaves radical, numerous and crowded, 
obovate or oblong, obtuse, attenuated into a petiole: scapes trichotomously 
panicled, decumbent, leafless: stamens usually 3: petals none: seeds rough- 
ish, with very minute tubercles.—DC. prod. 1. p. 3915 Wall.! L. n. 648; 
Wight ! cat. n. 163.—M. bellidifolia, Ser. in DC. prod. 1. p. 391.—Pharnaceum 
Spathulatum, Sw. ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 948.— Burm. Zeyl. t. 8. f. 2. 
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