440 BCRMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



Leaves obovate, rather large, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Flowers solitary. 

 Ovary many-ovulcd. Stamens about 15. Style long 



Kcquires comparison with Triunthcma monogyna, L. (Kui-z). 



T. CETSTALLTNA, YU. Ava. 



Leaves linear, small, with crystalline clots. Stamens 5. Style short, simple. 



MOLL VGIXIE^. 



Cidijx free, divided to the base or near!// so. Petals 3-5, or none. Stamens 

 hrjpogyiious or almost periejunous. Fruit a eapsale or divided into 2-3 cocei. 



* Fruit a eajjside. Leaves usually with sfipales. 

 MoLLUGO, Linnaus. 



Petals 3-5, or none. Ovary 3-5-celle(l, with many ovules in each cell. Leaves 

 usually spuriously whorled. 



Sub-genus Gliscs, L. 



Seed with a strophiole dilated into a small arillus. 



M. (GliiNts) lotoides, L. var. n common in Ava and Pegu. 



Tryphiera prostrata, Bl. 

 M. [Glinus) diefamnoides, L. 

 Pharnaeeuin pentagynum, Roxb. 



Softly pubescent or tomentose. Flowers rather large, in axillary clusters. 

 Stamens about 10-15. 



var. n. Branches often white tomentose. Flowers sessile or nearly so. 

 var. fi. Leaves pubescent but greouish. Flowers usually pedicelled. 



M. SPEEGUI.A, L. All over Burma up to 4500 feet. 



M. strieta, Roxb. 

 M. parviflora, Ser. 

 Glinus molluyo, Feiizl. 

 Ahine ereeta, Burm. 



Glabrous or slightly pubescent. Flowers rather small, on loug slender pedicels, 

 forming axillary clusters. Stamens fewer tliau 10. 



Sub-genus Mollugo, L. 



Seeds without a strophiole. 



M. siRicTA, L. var. /} in llartaban and Pegu. 



M. p)entaphylla, L. 

 M. triphylla, Lour. 



Glabrous, the stem angular. Flowers minute, on capillary pedicels, forming cymes. 

 Leaves thin and green, linear-lanceolate, usually acuminate at both ends. 



* * Fruit 2-Z-eoceous, the cocei 1-seeded. Leaves without stipules. 

 GisEKiA, Linnveus. 



Petals none. Carpels 3-5, free. Ufricules 5-3. Leaves opposite or spuriously 

 ■\vhorled. 



G. rHAKNACEOlDEs, L. Ava, near Ye-nan-ehouug. 



Order CACTE.E. 



Petals numerous, multi-seiiate, epigynou.s, free or cohering below. Stamens 

 numerous, multi-seriate, inserted at the base of the corolla. Ovary inferior, 1 -celled, 

 with many-ovuled parietal placentas. Berry pulpy. Seeds numerous. Albumen 

 scanty or none. Leaves generally none, or rudimentary, rarely normal. 



