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Stamens 5 or fewer, subhypogynous. Ovary many-ovuled. 
Style filiform, 3-fid above. Capsules membranous, 3-valved, 
many-seeded.— F/. Cap. i. p. 135. 
D. cordata, W., 1 common South American plant, was found at the 
Hanglip by Mundt. It has cordate or roundish leaves, bristle-like stipules, 
and small white flowers in forked, much-branched cymes. 
9. POLYCARPZA, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted ; sepals more or less membranous, concave, 
nerveless, not keeled, entire, pointless. Petals 5 5, subhypogy- 
nous, entire or 2-dentate. Stamens 5, hypogynous. Ovary 
many-ovuled ; style 3-fid. Capsules 3- valved, many-seeded.— 
Fl. Cap. i. p. 138. 
Small, much-branched herbs, common to the tropical and subtropical 
regions of both hemispheres. Leaves opposite or pseudo-verticillate, linear, 
oval, or spathulate. Stipules shining, silvery, copious. Flowers in tufts 
or corymbose cymes.—P. corymbosa, Lam., a widely-dispersed species, 
occurs at Port Natal. 
10. POLYCARPON, Leff. 
Calyx 5-parted ; sepals herbaceous, membrane-edged, com- 
pressed, strongly keeled and mucronate. Petals 5, entire or 
emarginate. Stamens 3-5. Ovary many-ovuled. Style 3-fid. 
Capsules 3-valved, many-seeded.— Fl. Cap. 1. p. 138. 
Small herbs. P. tetraphyllum, a decumbent, forked, much-branched 
annual, with obovate, opposite or 4-nate leaves, panicled flowers, short 
emarginate white petals, and silvery stipules, is a common weed by road- 
sides and in waste places throughout the colony. 
Orpver XVII. PORTULACEA, 
Flowers regular, perfect. Sepals fewer than the petals, 
commonly 2, rarely 5, free or adnate to the ovary, strongly 
imbricaté. Petals 4- B, rarely many, hypogynous or rarely pe- 
rigynous, free or connate, imbricate, withering early. Stamens 
inserted with the petals, mostly definite. Ovary free or half- 
inferior, 1-celled ; style 2-3-fid; ovules 2 or many, on long, 
slender cords rising.from the base, and either free or united 
in a central column. Capsules membranous or crustaceous, 
splitting into as many valves as the style branches. Seed as in 
Caryophyllee.—Herbs or shrubs, mostly succulent and gla- 
brous. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire, often fleshy. 
Capsules half-inferior, opening ae aa 
seeded . : . 1. Porturaca. 
Capsules 3- valved, splitting longitudinally. 
Seeds winged, numerous . . - . . . 2, ANACAMPSEROS. 
Seeds wingless, numerous. . Mele dite 1a Oy ck ALENT EN 
Fruit 3-winged, indehiscent, l-seeded mia. la) SVP ORDUMACAR TA, 
