Portulaca 



PORTULACACE^. 



171 



Stews somewhat shrubby, to 6 in. high. Leaves '5-1 cm. 1. Calyx 

 4-5 mm. 1. Petals 5-7 mm. \. Stamens 12-16. Style divided at J to § 

 of its height into 5-7 linear branches. Capsule globulose, 2-5-3 mm. in 

 diam., circumsciss at the middle or a little above. Seeds 23-35. 



2. TALINUM Adans. 



Glabrous herbs. Stipules wanting. Flowers in terminail 

 panicles pr racemes. Sepals herbaceous, deciduous or sub- 



Fig. 64. — Taiinum panicxdatum Gaeiin. 



A, Upper portion of flowering shoot. x 3. D, Capsule with part of the wall removed 



B, Bud X 6. X 5. 



C, Flower with part of the sapals and E, Do. cut across X 5. 



two of the petals removed X 5. F, Seed in section ix 10 ; «, endosperm; 



c, cotyledons ; r, radicle. 



persistent. Petals 5. Stamens 10-30, adherent to the base of 

 the petals. Ovary free , style trifid. Capsule 3-valved. 

 Species about 19, natives of warm regions. 



Inflorescence paniculate. Flov^ers not exceeding 



Jin. 1 



Inflorescence generally racemose. Flowers exceeding 



J in. 1 2. T. triangulare. 



1. T. paniculatum. 



1. T. paniculatum Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 219 t. 128 (1791) ; 

 pedicels terete; sepals deciduous. — Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 231. 

 T. patens Willd. Sj>. PI. ii. 863 (1800); Griaeb. Fl. Br. W. 

 Inch 57 ; Bohrb. in. Fl. Bras. xiv. pt. 2, 296, t. 67.- T. fruticosum 



