362 FICOIDE E. GriNvs. 
them ; the stems creep in the one as well as in the otlier. : From an examina- 
tion of other supposed species of the genus, from America, we have nearly 
satisfied ourselves that all, the Indian one included, are mere varieties, if even 
they can be distinguished as such, of one species, which ought therefore to 
retain the name of Portulacastrum. 
IL GLINUS. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 418 ; Gertn. fr. 2. t. 180. 
Calyx 5-partite, connivent, persistent ; three of the sepals exterior, two in- 
terior. Petals (abortive stamens?) 5 or numerous, shorter than the calyx, 
linear, cleft or torn at the apex, very tender, sometimes wanting. Stamens 
5-20 (usually about 15). Ovary free. Style very short or wanting. Stigmas 
5. Capsule surrounded with the calyx, 5-celled, loculicidal, 5-valved ; the 
axis and dissepiments persistent. Seeds numerous, small or minute, attached 
to the axis by long involute podosperms. Embryo spiral or curved.—Pro- 
cumbent diffuse herbaceous branched plants. Leaves alternate or in pairs, 
and unequal. 
G. ononoides, figured in Burm. Ind. t. 36. f. 2, appears to belong to Amaranthacee. 
§ 1. Capsule membranaceous, opening from the apex downwards ; the valves 
cohering with the axis at the apex: embryo spiral. 
1124. (1) G. dotoides (Linn.:) hoary with short stellate tomentum : leaves 
obovate, flat, fascicled, unequal : pedicels 1-flowered, axillary, usually E 
as long as the petiole: petals 5, deeply cloven.—Linn. sp. p. 663 ; Lum." 
t. 413. f. 1; DC. prod. 3. p. 455; Spr. syst. 2. p. 467; Wall. L. n. 1517; 
Wight! cat. n. 1180.—G. dictamnoides, Lam. ill. t. 413. f. 2; Wall. ! Lo 
1518. e.— Barrel. ic. t. 336. 
1125. (2) G. dictamnoides (Linn.:) hoary with short stellate tomentum : 
leaves roundish obovate, flat, fascicled, unequal : flowers almost sessile, & 
lary: petals 5, deeply cloven, or wanting: stamens 5-20.— Linn. mant. p. 2435 
Vahl, symb. 3. p. 645 DC. prod. 3. p. 455 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 467 ; Wall.! L. n- 
1518 (partly); Wight! cat. n. 1181.—G. lotoides, Burm. Ind. t. 36. f. 1— 
Pharnaceum pentagonum, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 103.—Doosera esculenta, R 
in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1128.—Pluk. t. 356. f. 6; and t.12.f.3? | 
The length of the pedicel is surely too inconstant a distinction between 
this and the former, and we know of none other. 
§ 2. Capsule chartaceous, septifragal, the valves separating from the axis and 
the dissepiments: embryo curved round the albumen. 
1126. (3) G. trianthemoides (Heyne !:) glabrous: leaves cuneate-obovate, 
rounded, mucronate : panicles lax, opposite to the leaves : petals numerous, 
marcescent: stamens 12-15.— Roth, nov. sp. p. 231; DC. prod. 3. P- 455; 
Spr. syst. 2. p. 467 ; Wight ! cat. n. 1182.—Lincarum familiee, Wall.! L: p.249. 
n. 1543. 5 
Perhaps this ought to form a distinct genus from Glinus, but the principal 
difference lies in the capsule. We cannot agree with Dr Wallich to ret 
to the Linee*. 
conni- - 
* As this plant is involved in some doubt, we give the followi :—Calyz 5-partitus, 
vens, persistens, intus haud coloratus: sepalis ovalibus, cospidatie, ima membranaceis, 3 exteriori- 
bus, 2 interioribus. Petala numerosa, liguliformia, tenerrima, marescentia, calyce breviora. 
12-20: filamenta subulata, disco carnoso calycis fundum tegente inserta: antheræ oblong® Mi eyissi- 
es, 2-loculares, udinaliter intus e Ovarium liberum, :5-loculare. L valvis valve à 
mus, Stigmata 5, , demum recurva, Capsula chartacea, 5-locularis, hence 
dissepimentis axi arcte adnatis solute, patule. Semina in qi Joculo numerose, 3x) ote 
Leer eme ia curvati affixa, cochleata: testa crustacea, longitudinaliter punctato-str a eo 
men m. Embryo semini conformis, circa albumen curvatus. —— d. : 
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