Portulaca. dodecandria monogynia. 4G3 



Nectarium, a slender, crenulate cup round the insertion 

 of the petals. Germ round, echinate, three-celled, with 

 two seeds in each, attached to the upper end of the axis. 

 Style simple, length of the petals. Stigma minute, obscure- 

 ly three-toothed. Capsule globose, of the si/e of a pea, 

 brown, and of a tougli coriaceous texture, armed with 

 numerous, diverging uncinate, backwardly hispid bristles, 

 marked with three small sutures, which do .not open, 

 (three-celled.) Seeds two in each cell, obliquely ovate, of a 

 brown colour. Integuments two, the exterior one thin, the 

 inner one thick and tough- Perisperm conform to the 

 seed. Embryo straight, inverse, the length of the perisperm, 

 yellowish. Cotyledons oval. Radicle cylindric, superior. 



2. T. Bartramia. Willd. 2. 854. 



Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves with the anterior part 

 three-lobed, serrate, hairy. Flowers axillary, 

 Beng. Bun-okra. 



Lappago Amboinica. Rumph. Amh. 6. p. 59. t. 2b. f. 2. 

 A native of various parts of India, 



PORTULACA. Schreb. gen. n, 824. 

 Calyx two-cleft. Corol four or five-petalled. Capsule 

 circumcised. 



1, P. oleracea. Willd. 2. 859. 

 Leaves cunieform. Flowers sessile. 

 Hind, and Beng. Loony a or Nooniya shak. 

 Arab. Khurfa alsoTooruk. 



2. P. meridiana. Willd. 2. 861. 



Annual, creeping, the joints hairy. Leaves oblong, 

 fleshy. Flowers subsessile, with four floral leaves and a 

 hairy involucre. Petals (our. Stamina from six to eight. 



Nela tsjera. Rheed. Mai. 10, f. 31, which Willdenow 

 quotes for his Oldenlandia depressa. Are they the same ? 



