G68 iiXix. picoiDE^. (C, B, Clarke.) IMoll^go. 



Stems 6-18. in., someTfhat angular caT-tragonoijs. Zeaves^-1 in., obovafca, cuspi- 

 date \ petiole i in. Cymes with small lanceolate bracts at their divisions ; flowers 

 ^ in. diam., peoicelled. Sepals purplish-green, with scarious edges, aci)te. CapwfZg.. 

 ^ in. diam. Seeds black, not shining, with numerous concentric elevatB4 lines. 



5. ncoxiXiveo, 



Herbs, branched-, often dichotomons. Leaves often falsely whorled, or 

 alternate, or all radical, &om linear to obovate, entire ; stipules qiiickly disap- 

 pearing. Flowers axillary, sessile pr pedicelled, clustered or in cymes pr 

 racemes, small, greenish ; bracts inconspicuous. Sepals 5, persistent. Petals ; 

 staminodes or small in the. same species. jSitdOTen* 5r-3, rarely many. Ovary 

 free, globose or ellipsoid, 3-5-celled ; styles 3-5, linear or very small ; ovules 

 many, axUe. Capsule membranous, sheathed by the sepals, 3-6-celled, dehiscing 

 dorsally. Seeds several in each cell, rarely 1, leniform, appendaged or not at the 

 hilum; embryo annular. — Distkib. Species 12, tropical and subtrppical. 



* Seeds with an appendage at the hilum, inflorescenee in axillary clusters, 



1. HE. blrta, Thimh. Fl. Cap. 120 ; 'flowers sessile or pedicelled, appen- 

 dage of the seed a membranous scale from which proceeds a linear bristle that 

 curls half round the seed. DC. Prodr. i: 391. M. Grlinus, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 

 i. 48 ; Kurz in Journ. As, Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 110. Glinus lotoides, Idnn. ; Lamk, 

 m. t. 413 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 456 ; Wall. Cat. 1517 ; W.Sr^- Prodr. 362 ; Sibth. 

 Fl. Orcec. t. 472 ; Dak. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 16 ; Soiss. Fl. Orient, i. 755. G. 

 dictamnoides, lAnn. Mant. 243 ; DC. I. c. ; WaU. Cat. 1518 •,W.lir A. Prodr, 

 362. Boiss. I. c. i. 756. G. parviflora. Wall. Cat. 1519. Pharnaceum penta- 

 gonum, Roxb. Hart, Beng. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 103. Tryphera prostrata, Blume ; 

 A. DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. ii. 424. 



Throughout India and Cetix)N, common. — ^Disteib. All warm regions. 



Stellately woolly, sometimes less hairy, rarely glabrous. Stem prostrate, much 

 branching, leafy. Leaves J-1 in., opposite or whorled, usually obovat? but vary from 

 round to njirrow-lanceolate ; petiole 0-j in. Flowers usually sessile or neaily so ; 

 pedicels sometimes | in. Sepals J- J in., elliptic or oblong, acute. Staminodes linear 

 or 0. Stamens usually 10 or more but vary to 6. Styles 3-6, linear, short. Cap- 

 side a little shorter than the sepals, oblong. Seeds mapy, covered with raised tuber- 

 cular points ; the appendage sometimes carrying more than one bristle. — ^A variable 

 weed of which the following are the most notice-worthy varieties. 



Var. 1. typica; flowers sessile, sepals ^ in. more or less stellately tomentose, 

 Glinus dictamnoides, W. ^ A. Prodr. 362. 



Vab. 2. lotoides, W. ^ A, Prodr. 362 (sp.); pedicels of the flowers J-| in., sepals 

 \ in. stellately tomentose.— Hills of the Decoan Peninsttla. 



Vae. 3. Keenami ; stem slightly pubescent, leaves glabrous petioled lanceolate, 

 flowers sessile, sepals i in. glabrous with scarious margins, capsule oblong the seeds 

 clearly seen through the walls, seeds exactly of Var. 1 but smaUpr than usual. — . 

 Cachar, if. L. Keenan ; possibly a good species but it can be nearly matcbed out of 

 the ^l&ican bundles of Var. 1. 



2. nx, Speri^ula, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 391 ; glabrous or nearly so, 

 flowers pedicelle'd, seed appendaged by a minute short subulate bristle. WdU. 

 €<a, 653 ; W.8r A. Prodr. 44 ; Kun in Jov/m. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 111. M. 

 verticillata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 9, Fl. Ind. i. 360, not Of Linn. M. parviflora, 

 DC. R-odr. i. 391. Pharnaceum parviflorum. Roth, Nov. Sp. 186. V. Mol- 

 lugo, lAnn. Mant. 661 ; Roxb. Rort, Beng. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 102. Glinus Mol- 

 lugo. Fend in Ann. Wien, Mas. i, 359. — Wieede Hort, Mai. x. t. 24. 



