560 Lxvi. JticoiDE.t:, 



7. LIMEUM, Linn. 



AmiiKil or pevenniul low branched glabrous herbs, sometimes frutes- 

 otMit al the base; branches usually prostrate. Leaves alternate or 

 subopposite, linear-lanceolate, elliptic or obovate, entire or obscurely 

 ciliolate ; stipules 0. Flowers small, bracteate, greenish, hermaphrodite 

 or unisexual, in dense terminal and subaxillary cymes. Sepals 5, un- 

 equal, ovate, herbaceous or with membranous margins. Petals 3-5, 

 oblong or spathulate, or minute, or 0. Stamens 5-10, sometimes im- 

 pert'eet, hypogynous ; filaments dilated and connate at the base. Ovary 

 free, globose, compressed, 2-celled ; ovule solitary in each cell, ascending, 

 \\ ith basal f unicle ; style very short, with 2 branches which are stig- 

 inatose within. Truit separating into 2 orbicular or hemispheric cocci 

 w hioh at length dehisce ventrally. Seeds vertical : embryo annular ; 

 radicle inferior. — Distrib. Tropical and S. Africa, India ; species 10. 



1. Liiueum indicum, StocJcs, ex T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 5, 

 Suppl. 1 (1860) p. 30. A prostrate glandular herb ; root perennial ; 

 stems diffuse, much-branched, glandular-pubescent. Leaves opposite 

 or nearly so, i-| by fV-j in., broadly elliptic or suborbicular, inequi- 

 lateral, shortly apiculate, entire, glandular-pubescent ; petioles distinct, 

 ^ in. long, slightly dilated at the base. Flowers crowded, in axillary 

 subsessile cymes ; pedicels short, glandular, bracteate at the base. Sepals 

 -yL in. long, glandular-pubescent, ovate, acute, with membranous margins. 

 Petals much shorter than the sepals, clawed, truncate and 2-dentate at 

 the apex. Stamens 7 (>Siocl:s). Carpels in fruit as long as the sepals, 

 hemispheric, dehiscing ventrally, the margins of the valves inflexed so 

 as to retain the seed till moistened. Seeds broader than long, about yL ju. 

 broad, concavo-convex, quite smooth on the back, yellowish- white. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 664 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 67 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 642.— Flowers : Oct.-Nov. 



In tlie Bombay Presidency confined to Sind. Sind: Woodrov:, Bal~cU\ Sehwan, 

 Cnofce'.; sandy bed of the Mtdir i-iver near Karachi, Stocks, 5'6b\ — Distrib. India 

 (Punjab, Miiltan) ; Beluchistan, Aden, Kubia. 



Telrarjonia e.vpansa, Murr. in Comm. Gotting. v. 6 (1785) p. 13, t. 5. 

 JVeiv Zealand SpinaeJi. A creeping herb with succulent stems, small 

 yellow flowers on short pedicels, triangular-ovate succulent leaA'es and a 

 4-o-horued fruit, a native of Australasia. It has been introduced 

 recently into a few gardens in the Bombay Presidency. It grows ex- 

 ceedingly well and seeds abundantly in the Deccan, where it comes up 

 self-sown when once introduced. Its leaves furnish an excellent spinach 

 for the table. See AVoodrow, Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 339. 



Order LXVII. UMBELLIFER^. 



Herbs (rarely shrubs or trees). Leaves usually alternate, simple or 

 compound, exstipulate (except I/i/drocoti/le) ; petiole generally sheathing 

 at the base. Flowers usually bisexual, often slightly irregular, in simple 

 or compound umbels, rarely in heads or whorls; umbels and umbcllules 



