464 DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Talilium. 



Teling. Pail-kura. 



Beng. Nooniya. 



Its flo>vers open at noon, and shut at two. It is com- 

 mon in gardens, chiefly as a weed, though much used by 

 the natives of Coromandel, as a pot-herb. 



3. P. quadrifida. Wllld. 2. 860. 



Creeping ; joints hairy. Leaves oblong, fleshy. Flow- 

 ers subsessile, with four floral leaves ; petals four ; sta- 

 mens ten or twelve. 



Teling. Pedda pail-kura. 



It is much like P. meridian a, hut a much rarer plant,and 

 considerably larger in all its parts, in the form, &c. of its 

 stems, branches, leaves, hairs that surround the joints, 

 and the insertion of the leaves and flowers, four terminal 

 leaves, or bractes, &c. they are nearly alike ; but in this 

 species there are from ten to twelve stamens, and always 

 four stigmas, which are the chief marks by which it is dis- 

 tinguished from meridiana. 



The natives do not eat this sort ; they reckon it very 

 unwholesome, and apt to produce stupefaction. 



The flowers expand at or before noon, and continue 

 open till near sun-set ; this is another circumstance which 

 marks its being a distinct species, and no variety of P. 

 meridiana. 



4. P. tuberosa. R. 



Root tuberosus and villous. Leaves alternate, lance- 

 olate. Flowers terminal. 



A native of the Circars. It flowers during the rainy 



season. 



TALINUM. Juss. 

 Calyx two-leaved. Corol five-petalled. Germ superi- 

 or, one-celled, many-seeded ; attachment inferior. Cap- 

 sule three-valved, one-celled. Seeds several. 



