52 THALAMIFLOR^. 



vato-wedgeshaped apiculated, stem procumbent diclio- 

 tomOLis, pedmicles 1 -flowered. 



Roem. et Schult. Si/st. II. 871.— PliiL PJujt. IV. t. 332. f. 5-. 



HAB. Dry sandy situations. 



FL. After rains. 



Stem procumbent, terete, glabrous, jointed. Leaves 6-7 

 in a whorl, subsessile ; the larger leaves lineari-lanceolate ; the 

 smaller obovato-cuneate, glabrous. Pedicels 4-5 together, 

 axillary, I-flowered, scarcely the length of the leaf. Calyx ex- 

 ternally green ; internally white ; sepals oval, 3- nerved. Sta- 

 mens 3, shorter than the sepals, appressed to the ovary : 

 anthers white. Ovary globose, 3-grooved, yellow : styles 3, 

 spreading. Capsule ovate, 3-celled : seeds subreniform, purple. 



2. Mollugo bellidifolia. Daisy-leaved ChickweecL 



Stem somewhat erect leafless, leaves radical ovato- 

 spathulate attenuated at the base to form the petiole, 

 flowers panicled — De Cand. 



Pharnaceum spatluilatum, Sioartz, FL hid. Occ. I. 568. — 

 Plum. Amer. t. 21. f. l.—Sloane, I. t. 129. f. 2. 



HAB. Sandy soils. 



FL. After rains. 



Leaves radical, entire, glabrous, decurrent on each side along 

 the petiole. Peduncles several from the same root, filiform, 

 dividing above the middle ; branches subdivided, at length ca- 

 pillary. Flowers minute, whitish. Calycine divisions green 

 and 3-nerved externally, white internally. Stamens 5, length 

 of the calyx, contiguous to the ovary: anthers white. Ovary 

 subglobose, obtusely 3-gonal : styles 3 : stigmata acute. Cap- 

 sule ovate : seeds 5-6 in each cell, compresso-spherical, min- 

 utely granulose and marked with lines. 



Ill, Drymaria. TVest India Chickweed. 



Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, bifid. Stamens 2-3-5. 

 Styles S. Capsule 3-valved to the base, 5-co seeded. 

 Embryo in the periphery, subannular. — De Cand. 



1. Drymaria diandra. Small-leaved Chickweed. 



Stem and branches minutely puberulous with capi- 

 tato-glandulose viscid hairs, leaves subrotund apiculato- 

 mucronate, flowers diandrous, capsule 5-seeded. 



Holosteum diandrum, Sivartz, Prod. 27. t. 7. — Fl. Ind. Occ. 



221. — Roem. et Schult. II. 857 Drymaria diandra, De Cand. 



Prod. I. 393. 



