Victorian Plants. 169 



812. Bracts large. 



Annual, prostrate ; leaves mostly scattered, from cylindric- 

 to elliptic-linear ; flowers small ; sepals finally somewhat 

 elongated ; stamens few ; fruit almost entirely enclosed ; 

 seeds comparatively large, shining, smooth. 



C. brevipedata. 



Bracts minute. 



Annual, prostrate ; leaves almost linear, those near the root 

 crowded; flowers extremely minute; petals white; stamens 

 usually three ; fruit upwards cylindrical, much exserted ; 

 seeds one to four, comparatively large, black, shining, 

 smooth. C. corrigiolacea. 



1KONTXA. 



813. Leaves mostly opposite. 



Very small semiaquatic herb ; basal leaves spatular-elliptic, 

 the other leaves from linear- to elliptical-lanceolar ; 

 flowers very small, on conspicuous stalklets ; petals white ; 

 fruit almost globular ; seeds three or two, somewhat 

 rough. M. foutana. 



NYCTAGINEAE. 

 BOERHAAVXA. 



814. Flowers very small, usually several together at the 



end of the branchlets of the panicle. 



Prostrate or ascending ; leaves mostly small, from lanceolar- 

 ovate to cordate, often slightly sinuate of denticulate ; 

 branchlets of the panicle exceedingly thin ; upper portion 

 of the calyx pink ; stamens one to three ; stigma dilated, 

 almost hemispherical ; fruit very small, rarely glabrous. 

 Figure 44. B. diffusa. 



POLYGONA.CEAE. 



RTJ1VIEX. 



815. Floral leaves almost absent. 



Lower leaves elongated, elliptic-lanceolar, narrowed or 

 truncate or bilobed at the base ; inner fruit-sepals hooked- 

 pointed, on each side closely and quite narrowly lobed. 



B. Brownii. 



Floral leaves copiously present ... ... ... 816 



