Trianthema.'] LXIX. FICOIDEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 661 



Papillse or nearly glabrous. Leaves 1-1 in., oblong or elliptic; petiole | in. 

 Flowers in sessile clusters. Calyx-lobes ovate, often scarious on the margin, bracts 

 scarious. Capsule in. ; beak consisting of two lanceolar portions acute upwards, 

 coriaceous, closely adnate to the included seed. Seedy in the lower half of the cap- 

 sule 2, dull black, roughly puberulous, the concentric lineation very obscure. 



4. T. decandra, Lmn. Mant. 70 ; stamens 10, beak of the fruit truncate 

 consolidated with the two included seeds indehiscent or only finally splitting. 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 34, Fl. 2nd. ii. 444; DC. Pi-odr. iii. 352; Wall. Cat. 6839; 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 355 ; Wight Ic. t. 296 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 15 ; Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 110. Zaleya decandra, Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 31, tig. 3. 



DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTEIB. Timor ; Ava (ex Kurz). 



Glabrous or minutely papillose. Leaves l-l in., oblong or elliptic; petiole 

 - in. Flowers in nearly sessile clusters. Calyx-lobes ovate, usually obtuse, often 

 scarious on the margins ; bracts scarious. Capsule % in., beak a truncate solid 

 cylinder, not at all or very obscurely mitriform. tieeds 4, 2 lower dull black puber- 

 ulous, with numerous faint concentric raised lines. Closely allied to the preceding 

 species. 



5. T. hydaspica, Edgw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 203; stamens 5-7, 

 beak of the fruit conical thin not completely enclosing a seed. T. polyspernia, 

 Hochst. in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 588. 



MOOLTAN ; Edgeworth. SCI]JH>E ; Stocks. BOMBAY ; Law. DISTRIB. East Tro- 

 pical Africa. 



Minutely papillose or glabrous, Leaves -1 in., oblong or elliptic, often with 

 scarious margins ; petiole ~ in. Flowers sessile, solitary and clustered. Calyx-tube 

 10-ribbed ; lobes triangular-elongate, acute, dilated at base so that there appear to be 

 5 interjected auricles. Capsule \ in. ; beak elongate-conical, hollow. Seeds about 

 10-15, dull black, with puberulous raised undulating lines that radiate from the 

 centre (and thus are in a direction at right angles to the lines on the seeds of the 

 four preceding species). Flowers separated, or clustered. T. polysperma, Oliv. is 

 undistinguishable from some of Stocks' Scinde specimens. Diplochonium sesuvioides, 

 Fenzl. in Harv. fy Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 473 is separated by the very numerous stamens 

 and shining seeds, as Edgeworth has noted. 



4. ORYOIA, Forsk. 



A rigid branched glabrous herb. Leaves opposite and alternate, fleshy, 

 entire ; stipules 0. Cymes terminal and leaf-opposite, lax, few-flowered. Sepals 

 5, nearly free, ovate. Petals 0. Staminodes many, small, subhypogynous. Sta- 

 mens 12 or more, subhypogynous. Ovary free, globose, 5-ribbed, 5-celled ; styles 

 5, filiform ; ovules many, axile. Capsule globose, papery, wrapped in the per- 

 sistent sepals ; cells 5, dehiscing dorsally. Seeds many, reniform, strophiolate ; 

 embryo annular. 



1. O. decumbens, Forsk. Fl. JEg. Arab. 103; DC. Prodr. iii. 455; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 755. Glinus trianthemoides, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 231 ; 

 DC. I c.;W.$ A. Prodr. 362 ; Wight III t. 113. G. mucronata, Klotzsch. in 

 Peters Reis. Mossamb. Bot. 140, t. 25. Portulaca decumbens, Vahl Symb. i. 33. 

 Talinum decumbens, Wittd. Sp. PL ii. 864. Axonotechium trianthemoides, 

 Fenzl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. i. 354. 



Dry and hot INDIA from the PUNJAB and SCINDE to MYSOEE and Coimbatore. 

 Not in Bengal. DISTRIB. Western Asia and the whole of Africa. 



