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3. SUiEDA, Forsk. 



1. NuDiFLORA, Moq. in Ann. Soc. Nat. 23, p 316.— Stem 

 shrubby, ascending, branched ; branches erect, spreading, puberu- 

 lous ; leaves rather short, oblong or obovate, attenuated at the 

 base, very obtuse, rigid, glabrous; flowers axillary, sessile, 5 to 10 

 densely clustered hermaphrodite; upper clusters at length naked 

 and spiked ; seed beaked, shining. Native name " Morus." Syn. 

 Salsola nudiflora, Willd. sp. ii, p 2323. 



2. Indica, Moq. loc. cit. — Stem shrubby, very diffuse, branched ; 

 branches ascending, glabrous ; leaves half round, attenuated below, 

 obtuse, rigid, a little mealy ; upper ones minute, oblong ; flowers 

 axillary, sessile, 3 to 5 clustered ; seed obtuse-beaked, shining. 

 Wight Ic. i. 1796; Syn. Salsola indica, Willd. sp. i, p 1317. 



CVIII. NYCTAGINACE^. 

 1. BCERHAAVIA, Linn. 



1. Diffusa, Linn. sp. 4. — Herbaceous plant, with numerous 

 slender prostrate branches, spreading close on the ground ; leaves 

 opposite, unequal, petioled cordate, with waved and often coloured 

 margins ; peduncles solitary, intra-axillary ; leaves green on both 

 sides ; flowers minute, red, sessile on the apex of the pedicels. A 

 very common weed. Syn. B procumbens, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 146. 



2. Repanda, Willd sp. i, p 22. — Stem elongated, climbing, 

 glabrous ; leaves cordate, lanceolate-acuminate, sinuate and repand 

 on the margin ; flower-bearing peduncles forming a loose panicle ; 

 terminal umbels 3 to 6-flowered ; fruit clavate, rough with glandular 

 knobs ; flowers pink, larger than in the preceding. In hedges, 

 Surat, climbing to the height of 6 feet. Syn. Valeriana chinensis, 

 Linn. sp. 47 ; Burm. Ind. xv, t. 6, /. 3 ; Astrephia chinensis, 

 Dufr. Valer. p 51 ; B umbellata, Wight. 



3. Stellata, Wight Ic. t, 875. — Decumbent; leaves succulent, 

 ovate-cordate, obtuse-mucronate ; racemes long-peduncled ; flowers 

 verticelled, subsessile, interruptedly subspicate ; ovary club-shaped 

 elongated, furrowed, with 5 elongated viscid glands at the apex ; 

 flowers white, Wight (stem-climbing, Dalz ; flowers pink.) In 

 Kattywar. 



4. Repens, Linn. — Herbaceous, creeping, diffuse ; leaves ovate- 

 obtuse, sinnate-repand, pubescent, white beneath; peduncles axillary, 

 short, bearing small umbels; flowers small, deep-pink, 2 to 3- 

 androus ; fruit ovate-elliptic, ribbed viscous. Common in the Dec- 

 can plains, also in Sind, Arabia, and neighbouring desert countries. 



5. Fbuticosa, Dalz. — Shrubby, erect, all viscid and tomentose ; 

 leaves small, ovate, with a truncate base, sometimes triangular, 



