102 PENTANDRiA TRiGYNiA. PJiamaceum. 



with their extremities drooping. Leaves tubular, ob- 

 liquely truncated, pointed, smooth ; in fact, they appear 

 more like joints of the bark than leaves. Spikes termi- 

 nal, simple, cylindric, often drooping-, and so numerous 

 as to compose the most beautiful droopin^^ panicles on 

 the extremities of the branches and branchlets. Flowers 

 very numerous, sessile, small, rose-coloured, inodorous. 

 Bractes triangular, acute, one-flowered. 



Male Flowers. Ca/i/x five-leaved. CoroZ five-pe- 

 talled. Petals linear oblong, emarginate. Filaments five, 

 longer than the petals. Anthers purple, two-lobed, with 

 a projecting gland between them. Pistillum nothing more 

 in all the flowers I examined, than a three-lobed gland in 

 the centre of the flower. 



Female Hermaphrodite Flowers on a separate 

 plant. 



Calyx as in the male. Petals rather broader than in 

 the male. Filaments five, the length of the germ. An- 

 thers sagittate, glands without the appearance of pol- 

 len. Germ three-lobed. Styles three, longer than the 

 corol. Stigmas clavate, recurved, retuse. Capsules co- 

 nical, three-sided, one-celled, three-valved, hid in the 

 withered calyx, and corol. Seeds numerous, compressed, 

 seemingly imbricated. 



PHARNACEUM. Schreh.gen. n. 517. 



Calyx five-leaved. Corol none. Capsule three-celled, 

 many seeded. 



1. P. Mollugo. Willd. 1. 1508. 



Annual, procumbent. Leaves verticelled, lanceolate ; 

 peduncles lateral, one-flowered. Sterile filaments alter- 

 nate with the stamina ; anther twin ; capsule subcylindric. 

 Seeds with a reflected filament. 



Alcine erecta. Burm, Zeyl. 13. t. 7. 



