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435. Hydrophylax Linn. f. 
Stout, glabrous, creeping, succulent herbs with terete branches; 
leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-oblong ; stipules connate with the 
petioles in an entire or toothed cup. lowers solitary, axillary, 
short-pedicelled, lilac. Sepals connate in a 4- angled calyx-tube ; 
mb persistent ; lobes ovate-lanceolate. Petals 4, fleshy, connate 
in a subeampanulate corolla-tube wit th a ring of hairs within ; 
- lobes = pa Stamens 4, adnate to corolla- -throat ; fila- 
orm 
ruit ies corky, obovoid-oblong, salle curved, acteny 
34keeled between the sharp edges, 1-2-celled and 2-seeded. 
Seed linear-oblong, with deeply sulcate face; albumen cartilagi- 
ire adherent to testa; embryo straight, serie 
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1015. Hypropnyiax MaAriTIMa Linn. f $78; F. B. I. 
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Orissa, on sand-dunes along the coast. 
A creeping succulent herb 
436. Spermacoce Linn. 
Herbs or low undershrubs ; branches usually quadrate ; leaves 
truncate 
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may axillary or terminal fascicles, heads or cymes- Sepals con- 
Mate in an obovoid, turbinate, or obeonic calyx- -tube; limb per- 
“an or obsolete with 2-4, rarely 5 lobes, and with sometimes 
vad teeth or bristles. Petals 4, connate in an ibular 
oe corolla; lobes valvate. Stamens 4, adnate to 
. aby throat of corolla ; Blames’ short or long; anthers linear 
‘iw ong. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary; ovules in each 
solitary on septal sinosl ; style filiform; stigma with 2 
- arms or capitate. Fruit of 2 coriaceous OF 
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—. testa thin, often granulate; albumen horny 
a. ; embryo axial with leafy cotyledons. 
— or suberect; stigma subglobose 
Stems ng ventrally after —_-* pticida 
Procumbent ; style-arms 2; one half of capsule 
both halves of capsol 
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