471° 
vinus between the lobés: stipules hard-and horn-like: petals 8, 
linear-acuminated, ciliated : corona a simple row of hairs fringing 
the hollow of the calyx-tube’ on the inside: fruit, globylar, of a, 
bright orange-yellow: flowers largish, yellowish-gteen. ° gre 
Courtalluin. Cochin. Malwan and Southetn jungles above the 
Gtiauts; Flowering in April. ; 
(8) M. triropara. (Réob,} 
Ident. Roxb, fl. Ind. (11. p. 132: 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor I}L. t. 271. 
.Spece Cyan. Climbing to a great extent,; leaves 3-lobed ; lobes 
entire, acute, with a large yellow gland under each sinus and twoy 
at the base: petals 5, linear-lanceolate, ciliated: capsule oblong, 
sthooth, 3-valved, scarlet : flowers nunierotts, nrale and ‘female mixed. 
on the same tendril, yellow. 
Chittagong, fldwering in the rairly season. 
(4). M. anrewas (Wall), 
Ident. Dion’s Mill. JIL: p: 59: 
Sprsc. Cuar. Climbing: Jeaves deeply cordate at the base, ob= 
Idi, acuminated ! lobes roundéd’ at ‘the base: pedicels umbellate, 
on the top of shortish peduncles: tendrils simple. 
Silhet. 
ORDER .IXX. PORTULACACEZR. 
Succulent plants: leaves usually alternate; without stipules: ; 
sepals usually 2; rarely:3-5,.cohering at the base: petals usual- 
ly 5, sometimes 3, 4,or 6, rarely wanting, distinct or cohering 
at the base, inserted at the bottom, of, the;calyx.and alternating 
with.. the: sepals..when; of the. same number: stameng-inserted 
with the petals: filaments‘distinct : anthers - versatile, 2-celled; 
bursting lengthwise: ovary 1-celled: style usually cleft at the. 
apex, papillose on the inner side: capsule dehiscing transversely 
or by three valves: seedg.few,or many: embryo curved round 
the circumference of farinaceous albumen, 
GENUS! I. PORTULACA: 
Decandria Monogynia. Ser: Syst: 
: Deviv. From. Porto, to carry, and: Lac, milk, the-species being: 
milky plants. 
