Mollugo.'] AIZOACEAE. 551 



Most plains Districts, a weed of roadside and waste lands. 



2. TRIANTHEMA TRIQUETRA, Rottl. T. crystallina, W. & A. 



355; F. B. I. ii. 660, not o/Yahl. 



Coast Districts of the Carnatic from Striharikota south- 

 wards, inland to Coimbatore. 



Yar. oblongifolia, Gamble. Leaves longer, up to 75 in., and 

 bioader; calyx -lobes with more acuminate and longer inucros. 

 S. Carnatic, at Tuticorin (K. Rangachari). 



3. TRIANTHEMA DECANDRA, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 661 ; W. & A. 

 355; Wt. Ic. t. 296. 



Deccan and Carnatic, on dry-soil lands, common, a road- 

 side weed. 



3. Orygia, Forsk. 



A diffuse branched glabrous herb. Leaves opposite and alternate, 

 fleshy, entire, petioled ; stipules 0. Flowers in terminal and leaf- 

 opposed lax few-flowered cymes ; bracts and bracteoles scarious. 

 Sepals 5, ovate-cuspidate, the margins hyaline. Petals 0. Stamens 

 numerous, inserted at the base of the calyx, subhypogynous , 

 filaments filiform ; staminodes many, connate at the base. Ovary 

 globose, 5-celled ; ovules many, axile ; styles 5, filiform. Fruit 

 a subglobose papery loculicidal capsule, surrounded by the per- 

 sistent sepals ; cells 5. Seeds many, reniform, compressed, 

 strophiolate, with many concentric raised lines ; embryo annular. 

 ORYGIA DECUMBENS, Forsk. ; F. B. I. ii. 661. Glinus trianthe- 

 moides, Heyne ; W. & A. 362 ; Wt. 111. t. 113. 



Deccan, in Hyderabad, Mysore and Coimbatore. 



A branching herb with flowers in slender cymes, purple red 



staminodes (petals of Wight) and obovate cuspidate fleshy 



leaves. 



4. Mollugo, Linn. 



Branching, often dichotomous, herbs. Leaves often falsely 

 whorled, or alternate, or radical and rosulate, entire, linear 

 obovate or spathulate ; stipules membranous, caducous. Flowers 

 axillary, greenish, solitary fascicled or in cymes or racemes^; 

 bracts minute. Sepals 5, persistent. Petals 0. Stamens 3-5, 

 subhypogynous, alternate with the sepals, often with staminodes 



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