■ Aizoon.'] Lxix. ficoide^e. (C. B. Clarke.) 669 



Tribe II. DKoUug'ineee. Cali/x deeply 5-partite. Stamens hypogynous. 

 t Carpels dehtsdng dorsally. 



Petals many, small, hypogynous 4. Obtgia. 



Petals 0. Stipules searious, fugacious ,. . . 5. Molltiqo. 



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Capsule of separate coed. 



Oarpjls 3-3, separate in the flower 6. Gisbkia. 



Carpels 2, combined in the flower 7. Limbum. 



1. AXZOOM, Lima. 



Spreading procumbent herbs, or small shrubs. Leaves alternate or falsely 

 opposite, entire ; stipules 0. Flowers axillary, solitary or in spikes or cymes. 

 Coiyx-tube short ; lobes 6-4, spreading', yellow within. Petals 0. Stamens many, 

 inserted near the top of the calyx-tube. Ovary free, 5-4-celled, depressed, 

 nearly included in the calyx-tube ; styles 5-4, free, subulate ; ovules several in 

 each cell. Capnule almost woody, surrounded by the persistent calyx, 5-celled, 

 cells splitting from the top downwards dorsaUy. Seeds 2 or several in eaob cell, 

 reniform; embiyo annular. — ^Disikib. Species 8, from Europe to S. Africa, 

 and from the Canaries to Scinde : one aberrant species in Australia. 



1. A. canarlense, Imn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 766 ; leaves petioled 

 hairy elliptic, capsules sessile numerous, the valves inflexed. JDC. It. Grass. 

 1. 136, I^odr. iii. 453. 



ScmnE ; StocJcs, Vicary. — Cistrib. AS^ameian, Arabia, Africa. 



Small, woody, closely procumbent, repeatedly dividing. Leaves 1-1^ in., papil- 

 lose and simply hairy or tomentose, petiole 0-J in. Flowers in nearly every axil. 

 Calyx-lohes f in. ovate. Capsvie^ in. bioad, the summit when looked down upon 

 pentagonal. Seeds black, smooth, with a few continuous raised ridges concentric 

 with regard to the unappendaged hilum. 



2. SES VVXTTDI, Linn, 



Succulent branching herbs. Leaves opposite, fleshy; stipules 0. Flowers 

 axillary, sessile or peduncled, solitary, rarely in cymes. Calyx-tuhe short; 

 lobes 6, triangular-lanceolate, persistent, often coloured. Petals 0. Stamens 

 iM,iiy or 5, inserted round the summit of the calyx-tube. Ovary free, 3-6- 

 ciflled; styles 3-5; ovules many, axile. Capsule ovate-oblong, membranous, 

 S'-S-CeUed, circiunsciss. Seeds many in each cell, reniform ; embryo annular. — 

 fosilUB. Species 4, littoral in warm climates. 



1. S. Portulacastrum. Xim. ; iJoj;6. i^/. Jrarf. ii.*609 ; glabrous, styles 

 3-5, seeds black shining smooth. Dah. ^ Gibs. Somb. Fl. 15 ; Fm-z in Jawm. 

 At. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 110. S. repens, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 463 ; Wall. Cat. 

 6836; W. Sf A. Prodr. 361 ; Wight in. Hook. Crnnp. Bot. Map. ii. 71, t. 23. 

 Psammanthe marina, Sance in WaVp.Ann. ii. 660. 



Seashores of India, from Bombay to CAionTTA and Sinsapobb. — Dibtbib. Tro- 

 pical and subtropical seashores. 



Small, or extensively creeping and rooting in sand. LeoAies 4-2 in., from obovate 

 to linear spathulate or subcylindiic; petiole often dilated at base' with searious mar- 



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