GENERA AND SPECIES. 
An erect shrub or small tree, the branchlets stellately 
tomentose; leaves ovate, very convex, glabrous 
above, white-tomentose underneath ; ovary stel- 
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lately tomentose rotundifolia 
Adriana. 
An erect shrub, more or less beset with stellate hairs ; 
leaves opposite almost sessile, ovate-lanceolate or 
oblong, coarsely toothed, about 2 in. long, with 2 
stalked glands at the base... : . guadripartita 
A small shrub ; leaves conspicuously sialkebil silnesiiai, 
3-lobed : fi. ; tomentosa 
ORDER PORTULACEAE. 
Petals (yellow) and stamens perigynous; ovary half-in- 
ferior. Prostrate or spreading succulent herbs 
Petals and stamens hypogynous; ovary superior. 
Branches usually slender, erect. Succulent herbs ... 
Portulaea. 
Leaves mostly alternate. 
Stipular hairs very minute. Leaves oblong-cuneate; 
flowers terminal; petals usually scarcely longer 
than the calyx, slightly united at the base... 
Stipular hairs numerous and conspicuous. 
Leaves thick, oblong under $ inch long ... 
Leaves linear-terete, longer ; flowers larger 
Leaves opposite, orbicular, no stipular hairs, petals 
minute iy ; bik 
Claytonia. 
1. Stamens 20 to 100. 
Petals 8 or 9; style 4-cleft ; seeds minute.. 
Petals 5, broad, purple; style 3-lobed; cae large, Ue 
reticulated. Leaves thick, fleshy, oblong-spathulate ; 
flowers large in loose terminal racemes on long pedicels 
Petals 5, narrow-ovate, large ; styles 3; seeds pitted 
11. Stamens usually less than 10; capsule ovoid or 
oblong, bursting. 
Stamens 8 to 10; seeds pitted; sepals broad obtuse. 
Stems ascending short or much elongated; leaves 
crowded on lower part of stem, linear-oblong ; 
flowers pink, few in loose racemes 
Stamens not many; seeds longitudinally falesdeaatl 
leaves linear-filiform ate Pre 
Portulaca 
Claytonia 
oleracea 
australis 
filifolia 
bicolor 
pleiopetala 
Balonnensis 
polyandra 
volubilis 
ptychosperma 
