2 JO Ficoidece. \Moiiugo. 



3. T. decandra, L. Mant. 70 (1767). Maha-sarana, S, 

 Charanai, T. 



Thw. Enum. 23. C. P. 1104. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 661. Wight, Ic. t. 296. 



Stems long, prostrate, slightly branched, angular, glabrous, 

 with long internodes; 1. opp., pair rather unequal, f-i| in., 

 oblong-oval, rounded and apiculate at apex, slightly fleshy, 

 petiole |— | in., much dilated and amplexicaul at base ; fl. on 

 short ped., in dense umbellate, shortly stalked, . axillary 

 clusters, bracts scarious, acute ; cal.-tube short, segm. much 

 longer, oval, acute, with membranous margins ; stam. 10 ; 

 styles 2; capsule not included in cal.-tube, 4-seeded, cap large, 

 solid, very truncate, carrying away with it 2 seeds; seeds 

 finely wrinkled, black. 



Low country, chiefly in the dry region ; rather rare. Batticaloa and 

 Jaffna (Gardner) ; Trincomalie (Glenie) ; Colombo (Thwaites); Tissama- 

 harama; Mantai. Fl. Dec; bright pink. 



Also in India, Burma, and Timor. 



The flowers are very pretty when fully expanded. 



3. MOX.X.17GO, L. 



Small, often annual, herbs, 1. apparently whorled or radical, 

 without stip., fl. small, axillary or in terminal cymes ; sep. 5, 

 distinct; pet. o or 5 ; stam. 3, 5, or 10, hypogynous ; ov. 

 superior, 3- or 5-celled with numerous ovules, styles 3 or 5 ; 

 capsule membranous, enclosed in persistent sep., 3- or 5-celled, 

 loculicidally dehiscent; seeds reniform, embryo more or less 

 curved. — Sp. 12; 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Fl. axillary; seeds with a filiform appendage. 



Densely stellate-hairy 1. M. hirta. 



Glabrous 2. M. OPPOSITIFOLIA. 



Fl. in terminal cymes; seeds not appendaged. 

 L. in whorls at nodes. 



Seeds with raised tubercles . . . . 3. M. pentaphylla. 

 Seeds smooth or nearly so. 



Stems numerous, glabrous . . 4. M. Cerviana. 

 Stem solitary, glandular-pubescent . . 5. M. disticha. 

 L. all radical 6. M. nudicaulis. 



1. Ttl. hirta, Thunb. Fl. Cap. 120 (18 18). 



Glimis dictamnoides, L., Thw. Enum. 24. C. P. 2937. 



Fl. B. Ind. t. 662. Burm. f. Fl. Ind. t. 36, f. 1 (G. lotoides). 



Annual, stems numerous, prostrate, . spreading from a 

 centre, 6-12 in., not much branched, densely stellate- hairy, 

 1. opp. or several at a node, unequal, largest \-\ in., rotundate 

 or broadly oval, tapering to base, very obtuse at apex, stellate- 



