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amen 
subperigynous, free or connate in a tube and further adnate to 
petals. Ovary 1-locular ; style slender 3-fid or 3-toothed ; ovules 
numerous. Fruit a 3-valved capsule. Seeds obovoid or com- 
pressed ; embryo curved, rarely straight. 
111. Porycarpma corymosa Lamk.; F. B. Li.; E. D. P. 1060. 
Celosia corymbosa F. I. i. 681. 
In fields and waste places throughout Behar and Chota 
Nagpur; on sandy river-banks in N. and E. Bengal. 
An erect or decumbent herb. Santal. Janhe nanjom. 
Order XVI. PORTULACACEA. 
Herbs, rarely undershrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire ; 
stipules scarious or bristly, occasionally 0. Flowers regular, her- 
maphrodite. Disk 0, but ovary sometimes (Portulaca) partially 
sunk in the torus. Sepals fewer than petals, usually 2, imbricate. 
Petals 4-5, rarely more, hypogynous or perigynous, free or united 
below, fugacious. Stamens 4— i 
transversely or by as many valves as there are style-arms, or, 
Cecasionally, indehiscent. Seeds 1—-many, compressed ; albumen 
mealy; embryo excentric, curved. 
Flowers terminal, solitary or clustered, surrounded by a whorl of 
leaves ; calyx-segments united below in a persistent tube adnate to 
lower half of ovary, the u per free teeth deciduous .....-+-+++ Portulaca. 
Flowers lax] ‘ . F - ovary free 
Y paniculate ; ls free, entirely deciduous ; ovary 
Pp sepals fr ¥ : iralincin, 
71. Portulaca Linn. 
Herbs, annual or perennial, diffuse, usually succulent; leaves 
scarious or bristly nodal stipular appendages ; occasionally 
