CARYOPHYLLACE^. 35 



Spergula arvensis Linn.; F.B.L i 243, XVI l; Corn 

 Spurry . An annual v^ ith dense false whorls of long linear 

 leaves at the base of which are small scarious stipules, 

 and small flowers with entire petals. Stems 6 to 12 

 inches, pubescent or glandular, green, simple or fork- 

 ed. Leaves linear-subulate, half-cylindrical, grooved 

 beneath, in bunches at the nodes because of the develop- 

 ment of those of the axillary buds. Stipules small 

 scarious. Flowers in regular three-chotomous cymes, 

 white. Sepals obovate-obtuse. Petals white, shorter than 

 the sepals, not notched. Stamens ten or five. Capsule 

 subglobose, longer than the sepals. Seeds black, slightly 

 flattened and with a narrow scarious border, t. 27. 



A weed of cultivated ground on these hills. Fysoft 1354. 

 Bourne 760. 



Not recorded in C.B.F. on the ghats to the north, but in Scind and on 

 the Kirthar mountains. Gen. Dist. Cosmopolitan in temperate climates. 



POLYCARPON. F.B.I. 18 XVIII. 



Diffuse herbs with flat, often falsely whorled, leaves 

 and small flowers in much branched cymose panicles. 

 Bracts scarious ; sepals with scarious edges and green 

 keels ; petals small hyaline ; stamens three to five ; style 

 short, three-fid ; capsule opening by three valves. 



Species about 6, over temperate and tropical regions. 



Polycarpon locflingiae Bentham and Hool^er f. ; F.B.L 

 i 245, XVIII I. A perennial with weak angular branches 

 spreading on the ground in a flat circular patch 6 to 12 

 inches across. Leaves of a whorl unequal, from J4 to M 

 inch, obovate-cuneate. Cymes terminal or in the forks 

 dense or not. Flowers '% inch diameter. » 



Ootacamund in waste ground. Flowering after the first 

 spring rains. Also all over the plains of this Presidency. 



Gen. Dist, Tropics of Asia and Africa. 

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