Order 59. Ficoidece. 133 



1. SESUVIUM. 



8. portulacastrum. A smooth, very fleshy prostrate plant, 

 much tinged with red, stems rooting at the joints, very thick, 

 leaves oval spathulate, flowers axillary, solitary stalked, calyx 

 within and stamens pink, ovary 3-lobed, styles 3 thread-like. 

 Dhdpa. 



On the sea-shore, Salsette, Bassein, &c. 



2. TRIANTHEMA. 



T. monogyna (T. dbcordata, D.). Creeping, with thick stems 

 much tinged with red and hairy on one side, leaves obovate, 

 petioles hairy, with 2 bract-like processes, flowers solitary 

 sessile, sepals 5, pinkish, stamens 15, style one, capsule some- 

 what 4-pointed, seeds 4 to 6, black. Kdpra, narmd. 



Common on rice fields, Bombay, Salsette, Cutch. 



T. crystallina, stamens 5, style 1, capsule about 2-seeded. Poona. 

 Cambay (D.). Cutch, very common. *T. decandra, stamens 10, styles 

 2, capsule 4-seeded. Bombay and elsewhere. *T. hydaspica, stamens 

 5 to 7, styles 2, capsule 10 to 15-seeded. Not in D. or G. Bombay 

 and Sind (H.) T. pentandra like T. crystallina, but with 2 styles and 

 about 4 seeds. Poona. In Sind, Dr. DymocJc, and called fasarldni, 

 but not ascribed to this Presidency by any of the books. 



3. MOLLUGO. 



1. M. hirta (Glinus lotoides, D.). A mean-looking prostrate 

 plant, covered with white down, leaves small ovate or obovate, 

 fascicled in unequal sizes, flowers few together of a dirty pink, 

 stamens 10 or 12, styles 5, capsule oblong, seeds with a long 

 bristly appendage. Kotliak. 



A common weed. Throughout India, H. He has 3 varieties. 



2. M. stricta. Erect with angular branched stems, leaves 

 linear lanceolate to obovate, verticelled, veinless, flowers in 

 panicles small, white, stamens 3 or 5, styles 3, capsule round, 

 seeds without appendages. Jharas. 



A common weed throughout India. H. includes in this M. penta- 

 pliylla of D., JR. and others. 



JN 'ote. The genus Mollugo was formerly included in Caryophylleae 

 and this plant suggests that order. 



ORDER 60. UMBELLIFER^E. 



Herbs often with hollow and furrowed stems, leaves usually 

 divided into many segments, petiole generally sheathing at the 



