340 DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Spergula. 



Pet. white, obovate, as long as the calyx, or nearly so. Siam. 

 more frequently 5 than 1 0. Caps, of 5 lanceolate valves, a little 

 longer than the calyx. Seeds kidney- shaped, compressed, pale 

 brown, encircled with a black line, but without any dilated 

 margin. 

 I have never found the marginal hairs wanting on the leaves, though 

 they are commonly very minute. The fower-stalks are longer 

 in proportion to the Jlowers than in the preceding, always more 

 or less glandular and viscid, ^udthejlowers are almost perfectly 

 erect. 



