iJoG Lxvi. ricoiDE.i:. 



not enclosing the flowers, riowers in dense axillary subumbellate 

 clusters ; peduncles and pedicels very short : bracteoles thinly mem- 

 branous. Ciilyx i in. long; tube very short ; lobes much longer than 

 the tube, oblong, obtuse, with scarious margins and with a distinct long 

 apiculatiou at the back below the apex. Stamens 10. Styles 2. Capsules 

 not enclosed in the tube of the calyx, 4-seeded, the cap very truncate, 

 ^ in, long, solid, subcylindric with a narrow acute rim round its base, 

 carrying away 2 seeds. Seeds orbicular-reiiiforin, striate, black. Fl. 

 B. I. v. 2, p. 661 ; Grab. Cat. p. 81 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 15 ; Wight, Icon. 

 t. 296 ; Trim. FI. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 270 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1898) p. 642 ; Watt," Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 77.— Flowers : Dec. 



S. M. Country: Adur Tilliige 10 miles west of Haveri (Dharwar CoUectorate), 

 JVoodrow'.; Badami, C'ooA'c ! — Uistiub. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Timor. 



5. Trianthema hydaspica, Eil/ew. in Journ. Linn. Soc.v. 6 (1862) 

 p. 203. A prostrate succulent papillose herb; branches dichotomous. 

 Leaves |-5 by g-^ in., fleshy, elliptic-oblong, obtuse (the younger 

 revolute), narrowed into the petiole ; petioles ^-f\ in. long, diluted and 

 membranous at the base. Flowers sessile, axillary, solitary or clustered. 

 Calyx-tube obconic, -^^ in. long, manj^-ribbed ; lobes 5, rose-colored 

 within, about equalling the tube, triangular, acuminate, with a tooth or 

 horn at the base of each at the sinus giving the lobe a somewhat hastate 

 appearance. Stamens 5-7 ; filaments filiform ; anthers rosy. Ovary 

 2-celled ; styles 2. Capsules :j in. long, the cap conical, thin, membranous, 

 hollow, not completely enclosing a seed, the lower part of the capsule 

 containing 8-12 seeds. Seeds cochleate, rugose, black. Fl. B, I, v. 2, 

 p. 661; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 642; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod, v. 6, part 4, p. 77. Diploohonium Huchstetteri, Stocks, 

 ex Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 66.— Flowers : Deo. 



In the Bombay Presidency confined to Sind. Sind : Jemadar ka Landa near 

 Karaolii, Sfocjcs, i~t{S\; Karachi, JFoorf;'ow I, Bkola Puranl — Distrib. India (Multan); 

 Tropical Africa. 



4. ORYGIA, Forsk. 



A somewhat rigid diffuse branched glabrous herb. Leaves opposite 

 or alternate, rather fleshy, petiolate ; stipules 0. Flowers rather large, 

 pedicelled, in terminal or leaf-opposed lax few-flowered cymes. Sepals 5, 

 ovate-cuspidate, with membranous margins. Petals 0. Staminodes 

 many, narrow, counate at the base. Stamens numerous, inserted at 

 the base of the calyx, subhypogynous ; filaments filiform ; anthers 

 linear-oblong. Ovary subglobose, 5-celled ; ovules many, attached to 

 the interior angle of the cells ; styles 5, filiform. Capsule subglobose, 

 included in the calyx, 5-celled, loculicidally 5-valved, many-seeded. 

 Seeds compressed, reniform, strophiolate. — Distrib. AVarm parts of 

 Africa, Arabia, and India ; species 1. 



1. Orygia decumbens; Forsh. FL yFr/j/pt.-Arah. (1775) p. 103. 

 A decumbent diffuse wiry herb, from a few inches to more tlian 1 ft. high ; 

 root woody at the crown ; stems pale, obscurely angled. Leaves |-lj 

 by ^-| in., alternate, obovate, cuspidate, glabrous, glaucous ; petioles 

 g in. long, with a small membranous wing. Flowers g in. in diam., in 

 racemose lax terminal or leaf-opposed cymes, sometimes (including the 

 plender obscurely winged peduncle) reaching 3 in. long; pedicels ^-^in. 

 long ; l^raots at the base of the peduncles ^-^ in. long, membranous, 



