StylidiufnJ] StylidiacecB. 53 



cor. large, 5-toothed, recurved; achene, with 4 very broad ribs 

 glabrous, pale brown. 



Sands of the seashore round the whole island; common. Fl. Feb., 

 March, August; lemon-yellow. 



Coasts of India, Egypt, E. Africa, and Mauritius. 



LXXL— STYLIDIACE^. 



Annual herb, 1. radical; fl. small, irregular, bisexual, in 

 racemose cymes; cal.-tube adnate to ov., segm. 5; cor. 5- 

 lobed, the lowest one much the smallest; stam. 2, epigynous, 

 fil. adnate with style to form a column, anth. distinct; ov. 

 inferior, 2-celled, with numerous ovules on middle of dissepi- 

 ment; fruit a capsule dehiscent from top into 2 valves; seeds 

 minute, numerous, with fleshy endosperm. 

 An Order which is almost wholly Australian. 



STVI.ZDZUBI, Sw. 



For characters, see Order. — Sp. 85 ; 3 in Fl. B- Ind. 



S. ulig-inosum, Szvarts in Mag. Nat. Ges. Berlin, i. 52 (1807). 

 DC. Prod. vii. 336. Thw. Enum. 168. C. P. 3505. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 420. Swartz, 1. c. t. 2, f. 4. 



Annual, 3-6 in. high; stem very slender, nearly leafless, 

 glabrous; 1. nearly all radical, shortly petioled, very small, 

 \-\ in., oval, tapering to base, rounded at apex, glabrous; fl. 

 very small, few, distant, nearly sessile in elongated terminal 

 racemose cymes, each with a small bract; cal.-segm, linear; 

 cor. scarcely longer than cal.-segm., upper lobes bifid, capsule 

 narrowly linear, over \ in., capped with persistent cal.-segm. 



Moist low country near sea level ; very rare. I have seen only the 

 C. P. specimens collected near Colombo by Ferguson. First found by 

 Koenig. Fl. June; white. 



Also at Malacca, and in S. China and N. Australia, but not in 

 Peninsular India. 



