XXX. ZTGOPHYLLACE.'E. 161 



Sp. PI. p. 387 ; Grab. Cat. p. 35. — Flowers throughout the year. 

 Veen. Golcru ; Sardtci. 



In dry and hot parts of the Presidency, a common weed. Tliis and the next species 

 are members of the Desert Flora. 



Deccan : Dal-cll cj- Gibson, Graham, Woodroio ; Bijapur, CooJi-e\; Poona, Cooke\ 

 Gujarat: Dahcll <f- Gibson; Ivathiawar, BakcU ^- Gibson; Deesa, Stocks] S. M. 

 Country; Padshapur (Belgaum districts), ^iYcAze, 1006! Sind : Woodrow, Jemadar 

 ka Landa, near Karachi, Stocks ! 



The plant is used medicinally throughout India and the young leaves and stems 

 are eaten as a potherb. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. Tribulus alatus, Delih, Flor. ^gypt. Illustr. (1812) p. 62. 

 Annual ; branches procumbent or ascending, densely silky-villous. 

 Leaves as in the foi'mer species ; stipules broadly ovate, acute, hairy. 

 Flowers g-^ in. in diam. Sepals -^-^ in. long, ovate, acuminate, villous 

 outside. Petals very thin, scarcely longer than the sepals, cuneate- 

 oblong, the apex sometimes slightly dentate. Stamens 5 (or ? 10). 

 Ovary bristly with long white hairs ; style short, stout. Fruit of 

 5 2-seeded cocci, the cocci very hirsute, the spines confluent into 

 toothed wings, Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 423 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 1, p. 902; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 266 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 6, part 4, p. 78. — Flowers : Oct.-Dec. Native names JSindo- 

 trikund; Latah. 



In all the specimens examined by me the number of stamens was 

 invariably 5 and not 10. 



A member of the Desert Flora growing in Sind. Sind: Stocks I, Vicaryl; Sehwan, 

 Cooke !, Woodrow ! — Distrib. North Africa, Arabia. 



2. SEETZENIA, Br. 



A small prostrate herb, frntescent at the base, usually glabrate. 

 Leaves opposite, stipulate, trifoliolate ; leaflets obovate, apiculate. 

 Flowers small, axillary, solitary. Sepals 5, linear-oblong, A^alvate, 

 incurved at the apex. Petals 0. Disk small, 5-lobed. vStamens 5, 

 inserted on the disk ; filaments filiform, glabrous, naked at the base ; 

 anthers subglobose. Ovary oblong-clavate, sessile, 5-gonous, truncate, 

 fleshy, 5-celled ; ovule 1, in each cell, pendulous ; styles 5, short, 

 spreading ; stigmas small, capitate. Capsule pendulous, ovoid, pen- 

 tagonal, separating into 5 1 -seeded cocci with a narrow succulent 

 exocarp on the back only ; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds solitary, 

 ovoid, compressed ; testa thick with 3 skins, the outer membranous, 

 the middle one cellular and mucilaginous, the inner coriaceous ; albumen 

 thin ; cotyledons thick. — Disteib. Africa ; species 1. 



1. Seetzenia orientalis, Dene, in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 2, v. 3 (1835) 

 p. 281. A branching herb; stem and branches terete, articulate, some- 

 what swollen at the nodes, usually glabrous. Leaves glaucous ; petioles 

 ■^-Q-^ in. long ; stipules intrapetiolar, triangular, ciliate ; leaflets fleshy, 

 the terminal one the larger, i in. long, obovate, the lateral oblique, all 

 with a hard, polished, horny apiculation. Flowers solitary, axillary ; 

 pedicels exceeding the leaves, ^-g in. long, cernuous, often abruptly 

 deflexed at the apex, glabrous. Fruit as in the genus. Seeds oblong, 

 compressed, somewhat pointed at the ends, smooth, brown. Fl. B. I. 



