LXVI. llfOIDK.t:. 5.j7 



piiiKish. C!il)'x glabrous, dividecl to the base ; sepals i-] iu. long, ovate- 

 e]li[)tic, acute or aomninato, greei), witli pink membranous margins. 

 Staininodes about 2U, purple-red. JStamens 12 or more. Ovary 5-ribbed. 

 Capstdes i in. long, pale-yellow, smooth and shining. Seeds renifonn, 

 minutely slntphiolate, finely striate, black. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 001 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1S98) p. 042. — Flowers : Dec-Jan. 



SiNMi : ^Vw-^-s, 444 ! ; Karachi district, lF<>odrow\, Uhula I'uran I, CooJce]; Jemadar 

 ka Landa near Karachi, Sluc/is\—Y)ii^-T^Ki\i. India (Panjab, Siiid, Mysore); Western 

 Asia, AiVica. 



5. MOLLUGO, Linn. 



Erect or diffuse glabrous pubescent or stellately tomentose herbs, often 

 (lichotouiously branched. Leaves often falsely whorled or alternate, or 

 all radical, linear, obovate or P])atluilate ; stipules membranous, fugacious. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, fascicled or in diffuse or umbelliforin cymes, 

 usuuUy greenish. Sepals 5, subequal, persistent, with membranous 

 margins. Petals 0. Stamens 3-5, subhypogynous, usually alternate with 

 the sepals, sometimes intermixed with subulate staminodes. Ovary 

 free, 3-5-celled ; ovules oo , attnched to the interior angle of the cells ; 

 styles 3-5. Capsule membranous, included in the calyx, oblong, globose 

 or subcylindric, 3-5-celled, loculicidally 3-5-valved. Seeds several 

 (rarely 1) in each cell, reniform, appendaged at the hilum or not ; 

 embryo more or less curved. — Distrib. Tropical and subtropical regions 

 of both hemispheres ; species 12. 



Flowers in axillary fascicles; seeds appendaged. 



Densely stellately hairy 1. M. hirfa. 



Glabrous 2. M. opposK /folia. 



Flowers iu terminal cymes ; seeds not appendaged. 



Seeds with raised tubercular points 3. M. pentaphylla. 



Seeds without raised tubercular points 4. M. Cerviana.. 



1. Mollugo hirta, Thunh. Prodr. PL Cap. (1794) p. 24. Annual, 

 softly villous with (chiefly) stellate hairs ; stems many, usually prostrate 

 and spreading G-IS iu. from a centre, sometimes ascending, leafy. 

 Leaves opposite or several at a node, |-| by y6~\ in., densely stellately 

 villous on both sides, broadly obovate or suborbicular, very obtuse at 

 the apex, cuneate at the base ; petioles |-| in. long, slender, stellately 

 hairy. Flowers pinkish-white, in axillary fascicles, 1-6 together ; pedi- 

 cels unequal, jL-i. in. long, divaricate. Calyx stellately hairy outside; 

 sepals \-^ in. fong, elliptic-lanceolate, acute. Stamens usually 10 or 

 more, varying to 5. Ovary ovoid, quite glabrous, 5-lobed, 5- celled ; 

 ovules CO ; styles almost or very short ; stigmas usually 5, spreading. 

 Capsules a little shorter than the sepals, ovoid. Seeds oo , subreniform, 

 with raised tubercular points, black, appendaged with a white scale at 

 the hilum extended into a long filiform process which curves round the 

 seed. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. GG2 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 270; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (ISUS) p. 642; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, 

 p. 255. MolJwio Glimis, A. Eich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, v. 1 (1847) p. 48 ; 

 Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 06. Glimis lotoides, Loefl. It. Hisp. (1758) 

 p. 145 ; Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1702) p. 003 ; Grab. Cat. p. 82 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. pp. 10 »fe 311. — Flowers: Feb.-Apr. Yeex. Dasard-scUj ; Kotrah. 



Koxkan: Stocks]; Bombay, common, Gm/i«;H, DahelUf Gih^n. Deccan : Khan- 

 dala, Woo(1row\\ Mahableshwar, Cooke \ S. M. Country: Eclganm, liitchie, 51! 

 Sin-d: ])ahcU\; hills near Karachi. Bhoht P(tra?i .'— Distuib. Throughout India, 

 common ; Cejlon, warmer regions of the world. 



