552 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Mollugo. 



intermixed. Ovary free, globose or ovoid, 3-5-celled ; ovules 

 many in each cell, axile ; styles 3-5, linear or small clavate. Fruit 

 a membranous, oblong globose or subcylindric, capsule, dehiscence 

 loculicidal. Seeds several in each cell,, rarely 1, reniform, some- 

 times appendaged at the hilum ; embryo annular. 



Flowers in axillary fascicles ; seeds appendaged and with a slender 

 white thread curved round them : 



Leaves densely stellate-hairy, orbicular to obovate and spathulate ; 

 pedicels usually very short ; sepals densely stellate hairy 



1. lotoides. 



Leaves glabrous or slightly crispate-pubescent, usually oblanceo- 

 late but sometimes almost orbicular ; pedicels long, filiform ; sepals 



glabrous 2. oppositifolia. 



Flowers in terminal cymes ; seeds not or minutely appendaged, no 

 curved thread : 



Leaves in whorls at the nodes : 



Cymes corymbosely branched; pedicels long, filiform : 



Leaves linear-lanceolate to obovate ; stems quadrangular ; 

 seeds dark reddish-brown, shining, tuberculate...3. pentaphylla . 

 Leaves linear, very narrow ; stems very slender, terete ; seeds 



golden-brown, reticulate, not tuberculate 4. Cerviana. 



Cyme-branches lengthening into elongated racemes ; pedicels 

 short ; leaves linear-lanceolate ; stems angular ; seeds golden- 

 brown with flattened papillae, not tuberculate, the back furrowed 



5. disticha* 



Leaves all radical, spathulate ; flower-peduncles many, erect, 

 trichotomously branched; pedicels filiform; seeds reddish-black, 

 covered with minute flattened tubercles 6. nudicaulis. 



1. MOLLTJGO LOTOIDES, O. Kze. M. hirta, Thunb. ; F. B. I. 

 ii. 662. Glinus lotoides, Loefl.; W. & A. 362. G. dictam- 

 noides, Linn. ; W. & A. 362. 



Deccan and Carnatic, in dry sandy places, and on waste 

 lands, common. 



A prostrate herb covered with stellate hairs, the leaves 

 usually orbicular, the pedicels sometimes up to '75 in, 

 long, but more usually very short. 



2. MOLLTJGO OPPOSITLFOLIA, Linn. M. Spergula, Linn. ; 

 F. B. I. ii. 662 ; W. & A. 44. 



Deccan and Carnatic, in dry places and on waste lands and 

 fallow fields, common. 



