ELATISE.T:. rORTULACE.E. TAMARISCIXEJ-:. 639 



Bkkgia, Linnceus. 



Sepals -Acnto. Floivers 5-muTou.s. Capsule s\ib-cfastaccous, seplicidal or scptifragal. 



B. vERTicrLLiTA, "Willcl. Avu. Pegu. 



II. aqiudica, lloxb. 



Glabrous. Flowers white, sessile. 



B. A515IAXIOIDES, Ixoxl). Pogu and Tenasserim, common in rice fields. 



Pubescent or hirsute. Flowers rose-coloureJ, shortly pedicelled. 



CARYOPHYLLALES. 



Floirers regular. Si'pfds 2 to 5, rarely 6. Petals usually as many. Stamens as 

 many or twice as many, rarely more, or fewer. Ocarij 1-celled, or imperfectly 2- 

 to 5-eelled. Placenta central, free, rarely parietal. Eiabryo usually curved and 

 in a floury albumen.' 



Order PORTULACE^. 



Flowers liermaphroditc. Corolla none, or petals sometimes coherent at the base, 

 very fugacious. Stamens hy]iogynous or perig)-nous, eipud, and alternate with the 

 calyx-lobes, or double, triple or multiple in number. Orarij usually free, rarely 

 inferior, l-S-celled. Fruit indchiscent, or a pyxidium, or a loculicidal capsule. 

 Emhryo peripheric, arched or annular, surrounding a floury albumen. 



SESVVIE.^. 

 Oiarij half-inferior, with the petals and stamens perigij)ious. 

 P. OLEEACEA, L. All Burma, on cultivateil hinds and waste 



Mya-byit. Common Purshmo. Pl''ccs. Kamorta and Katchall. 



Fruits glabrous. Flowers clustered by 3-5. 



P. QTTADRiFiDA, L. Ava, and Pegu in waste places. 



P. meridiana, L. 



Joints pilose. Flowers solitary. 



CALAXDRINIE^E. 



*P0KIULACAEIA AFUA, JaCq. 



Tamxum, Adanson. 

 Ovary free. Sepals usually deciduous. Seeds caruncled. 

 T. crxEii'oLirM, Wind. On Pagodas at Paghan-myo. 



Order TAM.VRISCINEvE. 



Flowers regular, usually hermajihrodito. Sepals 5, free, imbricate. Petals as 

 many, free, or slightly connate at base. Stamens 4-10, free, inserted in a small 

 annular hypogynous disk or united at base. Anthers 2-ccllcd, longitudinally de- 

 hiscing. Seeds with a sessile or stalked tuft of hairs. Albumen none. Shrubs 

 or trees with minute scale-like leaves and small flowers. 



Ta.marix, Linnaiis. 

 T. DioicA, lloxb. Ava. 



Leaves appressed to the terete almost simple branchlets and branches. Flowers 

 sessile, rose-coloured, in dense short spikes. 



T. GALLICA, L. Tidal savannahs of Pegu. 



T. Indica, Willd. 



' Exception : Petals connate in some rorlidai-eie and Tamarkcined, 



