Aizoon.~] LXIX. FTCOIDE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 659 



TRIBE II. IVIollug-ineae. Calyx deeply 5-partite. Stamens hypogynous. 



t Carpels dehiscing dorsally. 



Petals many, small, hypogynous 4. ORYGIA. 



Petals 0. Stipules scarious, fugacious 5. MOLLUGO. 



* Capsule of separate cocci. 



Carpels 3-5, separate in the flower 6. GISEKIA. 



Carpels 2, combined in the flower 7. LIMEUM. 



1. AZZOON, Linn. 



Spreading procumbent herbs, or small shrubs. Leaves alternate or falsely 

 opposite, entire ; stipules 0. Flowers axillary, solitary or in spikes or cymes. 

 Calyx-tube short ; lobes 6-4, spreading, yellow within. Petals 0. Stamens many, 

 inserted near the top of the calyx-tube. Ovary free, 5-4-celled, depressed, 

 nearly included in the calyx-tube ; styles 5-4, free, subulate ; ovules several in 

 each cell. Capsule almost woody, surrounded by the persistent calyx, 5-celled, 

 cells splitting from the top downwards dorsally. Seeds 2 or several in each cell, 

 reniform; embryo annular. DISTKIB. Species 8, from Europe to S. Africa, 

 and from the Canaries to Scinde : one aberrant species in Australia. 



1. A. canariense, Linn.-, Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 765; leaves petioled 

 hairy elliptic, capsules sessile numerous, the valves inflexed. .DC.JP/. Grass. 

 t. 136, Prodr. iii. 453. 



SCINDE ; Stocks, ' Vicary. DISTEIB. Affghanistan, Arabia, Africa. ! 



Small, woody, closely procumbent, repeatedly dividing. Leaves 1-lJj in., papil- 

 lose and simply hairy or tomentose, petiole 0- in. Flowers in near Ay 3very axil. 

 Calyx-lobes f in. ovate. Capsule f in. broad, the summit when lookeJQ cown upon 

 pentagonal. Seeds black, smooth, with a few continuous raised ridjges concentric 

 with regard to the unappendaged hilum. 



2. SESUVIU1VI, Linn. 



Succulent branching herbs. Leaves opposite, fleshy; stipukk 0. Flowers 

 axillary, sessile or peduncled, solitary, rarely in cymes. Cadyx-tuie short; 

 lobes 5, triangular-lanceolate, persistent, often coloured. PetMs 0. \Stamens 

 many or 5, inserted round the summit of the calyx-tube, (Ovary free, 3-5- 

 celled; styles 3-5; ovules many, axile. Capsule ovate-oblong, membranous, 

 3_5_ ce lled, circumsciss. Seeds many in each cell, reniform ; eniibryo annular. 

 DISTEIB. Species 4, littoral in warm climates. 



I. S. Portulacastmm, Linn. ; Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 509 /; glabrous, styles 

 3-5, seeds black shining smooth. Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. FL 15 1; Kurz in Journ, 

 As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 110. S. repens, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. iii., 453 ; Wall. Cat. 

 6836 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 361 ; Wight in. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 71, t. 23. 

 Psammanthe marina, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 660. 



Seashores of INDIA, from BOMBAY to CALCUTTA and SINGAPORE. DISTEIB. Tro- 

 pical and subtropical seashores. / 



Small, or extensively creeping and rooting in sand. Leaves a-2 in., from obovate 

 to linear spathulate or subcylindric ; petiole often dilated at basfe with scarious mar- 



