664 LXix. FicoiDEiB.. (C. B. Clarke.) [^Mollugo, 



6. M. nndicaulls, Lamk. Diet. ir. 234 ; glabrous, stems many leafless 

 rising from a tuft of radical leaves. BC. Prodr. i. 391 ; WaU. Cat. 648 ; W. 

 ^ A. Prodr. 43. M. bellidifolia, Seringe in DC. Prodr. i. 391. Phamaceum' 

 spathulatum, Spretvg, Syst. i. 948. — Msine, Bwrm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 8. 



Prom the Punjab to Cetlon in the hotter drier\)arts of India ; not in Bengal, — 

 DiSTEiB. New Caledonia, Tropical Africa, Cuba. 



Leaves 1-2 in., elliptic, tapering to the base. Scapes 3-8 in., wiiy, repeatedly 

 dichotomons. Se^xUs ^ in., oblong. Stamens 5-3 (Oliver). Stigmas 3, very 

 small. CapstUe as long as the sepals, somewhat ellipsoid, many-seeded. Seeds black, 

 a microscopic scale appendaged to the hilnm, obscuiely ridged on the back, shining, 

 closely densely reticnlated, very obscniely rough not tuberculated ; embiyo curved 

 through half a semicircle — ^New Caledonian examples have the seeds rougher, and a 

 very short linear spur added to the appendage. Cuban examples resemble generally 

 the Indian, but one of them has the stem very woody thick branched densely packef 

 \^th leaves. 



6. GXSEK.XA, Linn. 



DLflFiise branched herbs. Leaves opposite or falsely whorled, fleshy, spa- 

 thulate, abotmding in raphides; stipules 0. Flowers sessile and pedicelled, 

 hermaphrodite or polygamous, small, greenish or purplish, in axillary cymes. 

 Sepals 5, nearly free, ovate, herbaceous with membranous mai^ins. Petals 0. 

 Stamens (in the Indian species) 5, hypogynous. Carpels 6-3, distinct; each, 

 ending in a short simple style and containing one basal ovule. I^uit of 5, free, 

 membranous, papillose, indehiscent, carpels. Seeds vertical, subreniform ; em- 

 bryo curved. — Disibib, Species 5, in India, Arabia, and Africa. 



1, €r, phamaceoides, Linn. Mant. 662 ; cymes dense, carpels covered 

 with papiUse. Poxb. Cor. PI. t. 183 (not good) ; Wight Ic. t. 1167 ; A. DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. pt. ii, 27 ; Kurz in Joum. Linn. Sac. 1877, pt, ii. 111. G. mol- 

 luginoides, Wight Ic. t. 1168. G. linearifolia, Sehwm. ; A. DC. Prodr. I. e. 

 Pharnaceum oceultum, ForsTc. Fl. ^g. Arab. 68. 



The Punjab, Scinde, South Deccan Peninsuia and Cbtlon. — ^Distbib. Afgha- 

 nistan, Africa, Ava (Wallich). 



Glabrous. Stems 8-18 in. Leaves f-lj in., oblong or elliptic, entire, narrowed 

 at the base ; petiole O-J in. Sepals -^ in. Filaments dilated below. Carpels usually 

 5, in fruit as long as the sepals. Smls blackish, smooth, minutely glandular-punc- 

 tate; embryo curved less than a semicircle. 



7. XiMEEXrilX, Unn. 



Branched, mostly prostrate herbs ; glandular or glabrous. Leaves altemat& 

 or subopposite ; stipules 0. Flowers bracteate, cymed, hermaphrodite or unisex- 

 ual, small, green. Sepals 5, nearly free, ovate, herbaceous with membranous mar- 

 gins. Pet^s (in the Indian species) 3-6, small. Stamens 6-10, hypogynous ; 

 filaments dilated downwards and somewhat connate at the base. Ovary globose, 

 2-celled; stigmas 2, short; ovule 1 in each cell, basal. Fruit separating 

 vertically into two coriaceous hemispherical cocci, which at length dehisce ' 

 Ventrally. Seeds vertical, reniform; embryo annular. — Distrtb, Species 10, 

 African, one reaching the west of India. 



1. Xi. Indlcum. Stocks ms. ex T. Anders, in Jowm. Linn. Soc. v. Svppl. 

 30; leaves spathulate round, capsule smooth. Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 696. 



