Trianth.ema.'] txix. FicoiDBa. (0. B. Clarke.) 661 



Papillae or nearly glabrous. Leaves 1-1 J in,, oblong or dliptie; petiole J in. 

 Flowers in sessile clusters. Catyx-lobes ovate, often scarious on the margin, bracts 

 scarious. Capsule J in.; beak consisting of two lanceolar portions acute upwards, 

 coriaceous, closely adnate to the included seed. Seeds in the lower half of the cap- 

 sule 2, dull black, roughly puberulous, the concentric lineation very obscure. 



4. T. deoandra, Idrm. Mant. 70 ; Btamens 10, beak of the fruit truncate 

 consolidated witb the two included seeds indehiscent or only finally splitting. 

 Soxb. Sort. Bmg. 34, Fl. Ind. ii. 444; DC.ProcU: iii. 362; Wall. Cat. 6839; 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 365 ; Wight Ic. t. 296 ; Dak. ^ Qibs. Bomb. Fl. 16 ; Kure in 

 Joum. As. Soe. 1877, pt. ii. 110. Zaleya decandra, Svrm. Fl. Ind. t. 31, lig. 3. 



Seccan PEurNSTTLA and Cetlon. — ^Disibib. Timor ; Ava {ex Kwrz). 



Glabrous or minutely papillose. Zea/oes 1-1 J in., oblong or elliptic; petiole 

 ^ in. Flowers in nearly sessile dusters. Cah/x-lobes ovate, usually obtuse, often 

 scarious on the margins ; bracts scarious. Capsule ^ in., beak a truncate solid 

 cylinder, not at all or very obscurely mitriform. Seeds 4, 2 lower dull black puber- 

 lUouB, with numerous faint concentric raised lines. — Closely allied to the preceding 

 species. 



6. T. hydasplca, JEdgw. in Joum, Linn. Sac. vi. 203; stamens 5-7, 

 beak of the fruit conical thin not completely enclosing a seed. T. polysperma, 

 HocM. in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 688. 



Mooltan; Edgeworth. Soindb; Stocks. Bombay; Law. — ^Distbib. East Tro- 

 pical Africa. 



Minutely papillose or glabrous. Leaves J-1 in., oblong or elliptic, often with 

 scarious margins ; petiole ^-^ in. Flowers sessile, solitary and clustered. Ca,lyx-tube 

 10-ribbed ; lobes triangular-elongate, acute, dilated at base so that there appear to be 

 5 interjected auricles. Capside ^ in, ; beak elongate-conical, hollow. Seeds about 

 10-15, dull iblack, with puberulous raised undulating lines that radiate from the 

 centre (and thus are in a direction at right angles to the lines on the seeds of the 

 four preceding species). — Flowers separated, or clustered. 2'. polysperma, Oliv. is 

 uddistinguislmble from some of Stocks' Scinde specimens. Diplochonium sesvmoides, 

 Frnzl. in Harv. ^ Sand. Fl. Cap, ii. 473 is separated by the very numerous stamens 

 and shining seeds, as Edgeworth has noted. 



4. OXtVaiA, Forsk. 



A rigid l>ranclied glabrous herb. Leaves opposite and alternate, fleshy, 

 entire ; stipules 0. Ogmes terminal and leaf-opposite, lax, few-flowered. Sepals 

 5i,nearly free, ovate. Petals 0, Staminodes many, small, subhypogynons. Sta- 

 mens 12 or more, subhypogynous. Ovary free, globose, 5-ribbed, 5-celled ; styles 

 5, filiform ; ovules many, axile. Capsule globose, papery, wrapped in the per- 

 astent sepals ; cells 5, dehiscing dorsally. Seeds many, reniform, strophiolate ; 

 embryo annular. 



1. O. decumbens, Forsk. Fl. jEg. Arab. 103 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 466 ; 

 JSoMS. Fl, Orient, i. 755. Glinus trianthemoides, Heyne in Moth Nov. Sp. 231 ; 

 BC. I. c.;W.^ A. Prodr. 362 ; Wight El. t. 113. G. mucronata, Klotzseh. in 

 Peters iieis. Mossamb. Sot. 140, t. 25. Portulaoa decumbens, Vahl Symb. i. 33. 

 Talinum decumbens, Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 864. Axonotechium trianthemoides, 

 Feml. in Ann. Wien. Mvs. i. 354. 



Dry and hot India from the Ptjnjab and Scinde to Mtsobe and Coimbatope. 

 Not in Bengal. — Disteib. Western Asia and the whole of Africa. 



