62 FLOE A OF MADRAS. [Stellaria. 



4. Stellaria, Linn. 



Herbs. Floivers in dichotomous cymes or rarely solitary and 

 terminal, white. Petals 5 or rarely 4, 2-fid or 2-parfcite or 0. 

 Stamens 10, rarely 8. Disk annular or glandular. Ovary 1- 

 rarely 3-celled ; styles 3, rarely 2-5 ; ovules usually numerous. 

 Capsule short, splitting to below the middle into entire or bifid 

 valves equalling in number the styles. Seeds compressed, 

 tubercled, granular or smooth ; embryo annular. 



Plants with simple hairs : 



Leaves 1-2 in. long, petiole -l-'2 in. long ; flowers in long-stalked 



paniculate cymes; seed solitary, wrinkled 1. paniculata. 



Leaves under 1 in. long, lower petioles as long as the leaves ; 



flowers mostly solitary, axillary; seeds numerous, tubercled 



2. media. 

 Plants with stellate tomentum 3. saxatilis. 



1. STELLAKIA PANICULATA, Edgew. ; F. B. I. i. 229. 8. m,edia, 

 W. & A. 42 (not of Linn.) 



W. Ghats, in Nilgiris at 8,000 ft. 



2. STELLARIA MEDIA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 230 ; Wt. Ic. t. 947. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris, Anamalais arid Pulneys ; 

 Shevaroys in Salem District ; usually above 7,000 ft. 

 Chick weed. 



3. STELLARIA SAXATILIS, Ham. ; F. B. I. i. 232. 



About Ootacamund in Nilgiris, 7,000 to 8,000 ft. 



5. Arenaria, Linn. 



Herbs. Floivers white or pink, solitary or in dichotomous 

 cymes. Sepals 5. Petals 5, entire lacerate or retuse never 2-fid 

 or 2-partite, sometimes 0. Stamens 10, rarely 5. Disk lobed or 

 annular. Ovary 1-celled ; styles (2-)3-4 ; ovules usually many. 

 Capsule rarely longer than the sepals, 2-6-valved. Seeds smooth 

 or tubercled. 



ARENARIA NEELGERRENSIS, Wight & Arn. 43 ; F. B. I. i. 239 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 949. 



A small procumbent herb with long rather stiff branches 

 terminating in paniculate bracteate racemes of small flowers 

 with entire white petals ; leaves ovate, apiculate, '2-'5 in. 

 long. 



