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156. (2) M. pentaphylla (Linn.:) glabrous: stems decumbent, leafy, an- 
gled: leaves slightly glaucous, firm, obovate, obtuse, mucronulate, tapering 
at the base: panicles elongated, many-flowered: stamens usually 3: petals 
none: seeds rough, with minute numerous tubercles—DC. prod. 1. p. 391; 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 359; Wall.! L. n. 650; Wight! cat. n. 161.—Pharnaceum 
pentaphyllum, Spr. syst. 1. p. 949.—Burm. Zeyl. t. 8. f. 1. 
157. (3) M. triphylla (Lour. :) glabrous : stems diffuse, leafy, angled: leaves 
green, thinnish, obovate or oblong, mucronulate, tapering at the base: pani- 
cles elongated, many-flowered : stamens 3-5: petals none: seeds rough, with 
minute tubereles.—J C. prod. 1. p. 392; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 360; Wall. ! L. 
n. 651; Wight! cat. n. 159, 160,—M. Linkii, Ser. in DC. prod. 1. p. 392.— 
. M. paniculata, Burm.—M. radiata, Ruiz. and Pav.—Pharnaceum triphyllum, 
Spr. js 1. p. 949.— Burm. Zeyl. t. 6. f. 2; Pluk. t. 118. f. 1; Rheed. Mal. 
10. 7. 26. 
This is possibly not a distinct species from the last, and tends to combine 
with them the following one also. 
158. (4) M. stricta (Linn.:) glabrous: stems straightish, diffuse at the 
base, then erect, angled: leaves linear-lanceolate pointed, thin, and green. 
panicles elongated, many-flowered: stamens 3: petals none: seeds with mi- 
nute tubercles.— DC. prod. 1. p. 391; Burm. Ind. t. 5. f. 3; Wall.! L. n. 649; 
vi cat. n. 151.—Pharnaceum strictum, Spr. syst. 1. p. 949.— Pluk. t. 257. 
159. (5) M. cerviana (Ser.:) glabrous : stems straightish, ascending, terete: 
leaves linear, very narrow, bluntish, glaucous: peduncles elongated, bearing 
3 umbellate flowers: stamens usually 5: petals none: seeds without dots or 
tubercles.—D C. prod. 1. p. 392; Wall.! L. n. 7128; Wight! cat. n. 162.— 
Pharnaceum cerviana, Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 214. f. 2; Spr. syst. 1. p. 948.— 
Pluk, t. 128. f. 3 ; t. 332. f. 9. pl. 11. 
160. (6) M. disticha (Ser.:) glandularly-pubescent: stems diffuse, angled: 
leaves nearly linear, thickish: panicles rigid, slightly branched, sometimes 
mere racemes: stamens ally 5: petals none: seeds inconspicuously 
marked with depressed dots.—DC. prod. 1. p. 392 ; Wall.! L. n. 652 ; Wight! 
cat. n. 158. a, b (a monstrosity).—Pharnaceum distichum, Linn.; Spr. syst. 1. 
p. 949.— Pluk. t. 130. f. 6 ; t. 332. f. 9. pl. 4.—— Palaar. 
, Perhaps Pluk. t. 332. fol. 9. pl. 3. may be also this species, but the figure 
is not very characteristic. 
161. (7) M. spergula (Linn.:) stems very straggling and branched: leaves 
more or less suceulent, oblong or obovate, mucronate, attenuated towards 
their base: pedicels 1-flowered, several together, forming a simple sessile — — 
umbel: stamens 3-5, or 10: petals narrow, cleft to the middle, or none: 
seeds rough with numerous minute tubercles— DC. prod. 1. p. 391; Burm. 
Ind. t. 5. f. 45 Wall.! L. n. 653; Wight! cat. n. 157.—M. verticillata, Roxb. fl. 
Ind. 1. p. 360 (not Linn.)—M. erecta, Burm. Ind. p. 32.—M. parviflora, DC. 
prod. 1. p. 391.—Pharnaceum mollugo, Linn.; Spr. syst. 1. p. 948 ; Roxb. fl. 
Ind. 2. p. 102.—P. parviflorum, Roth.; Spr. syst. 1. p. 948.—Rheed. mal. 10. 
t. 24; Burm. Zeyl. t. 7; Pluk. t. 130. f. 5. 
The tuberculated seed alone will distinguish this from the American M. 
verticillata. All the specimens we have seen from the continent of India 
have 5 or 10 stamens, and 5 forked petals, (that in Hamilton's herbarium 
marked without petals, and consequently part of Dr Wallich's L. n. 653. 
actually having them); but in Mr Arnott’s herbarium, there is a specimen 
from Java, not otherwise distinct, with only 3 stamens and no petals. 
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