328 .LV. FICOIDEE. [Gunnin ` 
the whole plant in our specimens scarcely exceeding 2 in. Leaves op 
petiolate, ovate or gengt 2 to 4 lines long. Flowers large for the 
plant, sessile or nearly so in the forks and at the ends of the branches 
Calyx-tube short, vex e ries 4, valvate, broadly ovate, acute, nearly 3 
lines long when closed over the fruit. Stamens 4, inserted below the middle 
of the calyx-tube and mg as loug as it 4 — Capsule contracted and 
very shortly adnate at the base, broad in the centre, pyramidal and 4-angled 
at the top, opening both lóculicidally and scpticidally Seeds numerous. 
WV. Australia, Drummond, n. 241, 
5. SESUVIUM, Linn. 
Calyx free, deeply 5-lobed. Petals none. Stamens 5, alternating with 
-the calyx-lobes or indefinite, often very numerous, inserted at the top of the 
tube. Ovary free, enclosed in the calyx, 3- to 5- celled, with numerous ovules 
in each cell ; styles as many as cells, filiform, stigmatic along the inner side, 
he genus enn about four species, spread over the seacoasts of the tropical and sub- 
tropical regions of the globe, the Australian species being the commonest and the most gen 
rally diffused both in the New and the Old Wor Id. 
. portulac astrum, Linn. i DO Prod. iii. 453. A wes es 
ebe? 
edi 
green on the back, scarious on ré margins Kë eh or purple Dey 
ig mucronate below the end. Sta "db zie j^ serted at pd 
top of the calyx-tube and shorter "a ER [A the filaments wen? 
shortly united at the base. Ova vary 3- or rarely 4- celled. Let ovoid, n0 
exceeding the calyx, circumsciss below the middle.— Bot. Mag. Ls 
gen er, e io enne. 
si 
Que ; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Howicks Ver A 
sandy pen of be islands of Moreton Bay, F. Mueller ; Fitzroy river, Thozet. 
N. S. Wal iver, Wilco 
The styles are px to d bs in r d owers I have examined, but a pois E: [o Si 
in Medie as in di anthe marina, Hance in Walp. Anu. ii. 660, 
which a to bea eria only of S. portulacastrum, notwit thstan 
coasts, we, we 
xóm are iin as dairibed by Hance, shortly united at the 
D to whieh the m enger are referred in re mi A en S 
or rather a state only of S. port 
3 rs t tulac 
and Ce and broader leaves, eat e suggested by Arnott, to want of luxuriance. ` 
