AMollugo.] LV. FICOIDEX. 333 
The genus is geet diffused over the warmer regions of the globe, extending i into 
Es and North America. Of the five Australian species, three are very com n in Asia 
nd Africa, two of them extending also to tropical America, the other we are saline: 
N I. Glinus Are ranhoiute with a filiform appendage (resembling a 
een. more or less encirclin, 
Softly tomeutose. Flowers nig large, in -axillary clusters. Sta- 
NEEN ERE UN BL M e ui A E e s 
Quite glabrous. Flowers rather large, in terminal clusters. Sta- 
mens about 15 . s $a elt. CN NI 2. M. orygioides. 
pornu or slightly pubescent. ` Flowers rather M in axillary 
lusters. Stamens under 10 x25 2 on, E E 
Section II. Mollugo.— Seeds without nm je 
E decumbent. Mur ers rather large axillary cymes 
rracemes. Stamen the filaments earn dilated at the ae . 4. M. trigastrotheca. 
Glabrous, filiform, and si Lea small, on filiform P edicels. e 
tamens'5, the fiente not dilated . 5. M. Cerviana. 
l. M. Glinus, A. Rich. Fl. A i, 48. A SCH coarse species 
softly tomentose all over, sometimes dern and erect, but usually diffuse, pro- 
cumbent or ascending and spreading to above 1 ft. Leaves from obovate- 
orbicular to oblong-spathulate, sometimes above 1 in. long, but usually much 
smaller. Flowers clustered at the nodes on short pedicels rarely as long as 
the calyx, Calyx like the rest of the plant, very tomentose, segments 24 to 
4 lines long. Stamens about 10 to 15, with 5 or fewer external staminodia, 
flat, ES thin and transparent, often forked. Styles usually 5, united at the 
base, Capsule enclosed in the calyx, 5-lobed. Seeds numerous; testa tu- 
bereulate, fanicle thickened into a short strophiole or arillus, with a long fili- 
form Së white process more or less encircling the seed. — Glinus lotoides, 
Linn. Spec. Pl. 663; Fenzl, in ues . Wien. Mus. i. ‘857, with the synonyms 
adduced, , T. Muell. PI Viet 
N. Australis, Vietoria ie E asa 
Queensland. Rockha ampton 
N.S. I e Darling riv deg y and Goo p eg E dier, Y Mus 
rra 
d dee qum SL bur p "aic regions o of the Old Nor Gier 
d also arts of tropical A 
sa vin sale ci Wee cn ng M. "s ve hich esse A not yet been 
: 2. M. orygioi oides, F. Muell. Herb. Stout and rigid, apparently peren- 
= nial, Drogen branched, quite glabrous. Leaves obo vate o r oblong, all 
under 2 in. in our specimens. Flowers rather large, i 
very short pedicels, Outer calyx-segiments about 2 lines long, with a narrow 
cg s border, inner ones rather larger at first, with a broader SS at 
en 3 lines long, broadly-ovate, w white and scarious, with a 
y about 15, with a few — wert e? —— or 
and transparent, St tyles 3 or rarely 4, qui — D Mas funice 
larger than those of M. Glinus, and the fare appendage Musil. PL 
he a eg only half encircling the seed.— Glinus irs HR T. ue 
N. E Desert plains, east ^ Grey Range, Bechler. 
S. Australia. Cooper’, Crock, Wright. 
greeni 
e or 3 flat thin 
