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Leaves broadish ... ... ... 793 



793. Sepals acute ; fruit five-valved. 



Prostrate, beset with soft starry hairlets ; stems elongated ; 

 leaves comparatively large, from nearly obovate- or spatu- 

 lar- to cuneate-orbicular, almost whorled, flaccid ; flowers 

 rather large ; stamens five to twenty ; appendage of about 

 half the size of the seeds. Figure 41. M. Glinus. 



Sepals obtuse ; fruit three-valved. 



Prostrate ; stems almost unilaterally beset with crisp hair- 

 lets ; leaves nearly glabrous, almost whorled, from narrow - 

 or cuneate-elliptical to obovate ; flowers rather small ; 

 stamens three to ten ; appendage much smaller than the 

 seeds. M. Spergula. 



794. Leaves almost semicylindric, prominently triangular. 



Prostrate; flowers large; petals pink, narrow; styles six to 

 ten ; fruit very pulpy, edible. M. aequilaterale. 



Leaves almost cylindric, hardly angular. 



Prostrate; flowers rather large ; petals pink, narrow; styles 

 five ; fruit slightly pulpy. Figure 39. M. Australe. 



TBTRAGONXA. 



795. Prostrate, herbaceous. 



Mainly a coast-plant ; densely beset with transparent minute 

 moist papules ; leaves from deltoid- to ovate-rhomboid ; 

 flowers small, nearly sessile ; lobes of the calyx yellowish 

 inside ; fruit broader upwards, bluntly angular, green. 

 " New Zealand Spinage." T. expansa. 



Climbing, woody. 



Mainly a coast-plant ; densely beset with transparent minute 

 moist papules ; leaves from lanceolar- to ovate-rhomboid ; 

 flowers small, long-stalked; lobes of the calyx yellow 

 inside ; fruit almost spherical, succulent, red. Figure 40. 



T. implexicoma. 



STELLARIA. 



796. Leaves sharply pointed. 



Perennial, sometimes tall; branchlets beset with crisp 

 hairlets; leaves rigid, from ovate- to iiarrow-lanceolar, 

 attenuated into a very acute apex ; sepals pungent ; petals 

 developed. S. pungeiis. 



