532 BENGAL PLANTS. — [Sesuvium, 
below; stigmas usually subulate, introrse; ovules amphitropous, — 
either solitary basal, or many axial in each carpel or loculus. — 
Fruit usually capsular, with dehiscence dorsal or circumscissile, 
less often of separating, indehiscent cocci, or of free, indehiscent 
carpels. Seeds 1-many in each carpel, usually reniform, com 
pressed; albumen mealy, embraced by the curved or annular 
embryo. 
Calyx-tube elongated ; stamens inserted on the tube ; capsule with dehis- 
cence circumscissile :— Ree 
_ Ovary and capsule 3-5-celled ese 
Ovary and capsule 1-2-celled be 
Calyx deeply 5-partite ; stamens hypogynous ; capsule with dorsal dehis- . 
tenet; OVATY Bhd capsule $-5-célled 21 20 ee ee cece Mollugo. — 
Succulent, branching, prostrate, littoral herbs; leaves Orpen 
fleshy ; stipules 0. Flowers axillary, purplish ; bracts al 
4 ls i 
emb: BL 
897. Szsuvium PorrunacastRuM Linn.; F. I. ii. 509; F. : 
ii. 659; E. D. s. 1203. . | 
Sundribuns. 
A seashore creeping herb. 
382, Trianthema Linn. i eee 
Diffuse, prostrate, branching, glabrous or pa a at 
leaves petioled, opposite, unequal, entire; petioles connet™ "ee 
their base by membranous dilatations. Flowers small, pve 
Solitary, sessile or peduncled, or in clusters or small — 
feoles 2. Sepals 5, connate in a short or long caly — 
’ ? : - 
top of calyx-tube. Carpels solitary, or 2 connate in yore 
superior ovary ; styles subulate, 1 or 2, excentric, ranma 
ovules 1 or more in each carpel, arising from a basal a 
