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ORDER LXXIL, MESEMBRYACEA. 
Shrubby or herbaceous succulent plants: leaves.opposite,.en- 
tire: sepals usually. 5, occasionally 4-8, more or less cohering 
at the base, cohering or distinct from the ovary, equal. or un- 
pqual:. petals indefinite, in several rows: stamens inserted on the 
calyx, indefinite, distinct: anthers oblong: ovary inferior, 1 or 
many-celled: stigmas numerous, distinct: ovules indefinite : 
capsule surrounded by the fleshy calyx, 1 or many-celled, burst- 
ing in.a stellate form, at the. apex, or transversely at the baget 
seeds usually indefinite: embryo on the outside of mealy albu- 
men, curved orapiral: flowers terminal. . 
GENUS I. GLINUS. 
Weeandria Fentagynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. A name given by Theophrastus to the maple. 
Gen. Cuar. Procumbent diffuse plants: leaves alternate or in 
pairs and unequal: ¢alyx 5-partite, connivent, persistent: 3 sepals 
exterior,.2 interior: petals 5 or numerous, shorter than the calyx, 
linear, cleft or torn at the apex, sometimes wanting : stamens usually 
pbout. 15: ovary: free: style very short. or wanting: stigmas. 5: 
gapsule surrounded by the calyx, 5-celled, 5-valved : seeds attached 
to the axis by long podosperms, 
(1) Gi noroipes. (Linn. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod, I. p. 362.—Dec. prod. IIT. p. 455. 
Syn. G. dictamnoides, Linn.—Pharnaceum pentagonum, Rozb, 
‘Ind. TI. p. 103. o— 
Engrae. Lam. Ml. t.413.. f. 2,-+Burm. Ind. t. 86.-f..1. 
. Spec. Guar. Herbaceous, hoary with short tomentum t leaves 
obovate, flat, fascicled, unequal: pedicels 1-flowered, axillary, usu- 
ally twice as long as the petiole! petals 5, deeply cloven: flowers 
small, greenish-red: capsule membranaceous, opening from the 
apex downwards. | ~ i ; 
Peninsula. Common in Bombay. Flowering nearly all the year. 
The tender ghoots are eaten by the natives in :their. curries. 
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