54 CARYOPHYLLEJ!. 



filiform ! angles subcrenate.— E. macnlata, 3, PI. Garib. E. callitrichoides, Kth., et tenella, 

 Kth. sec. Efiffelm.—UAB. Jamaica!, Sist., March, to Trinidad!, Lockh., Or.; [Lonisiana! 

 to Panama!, Cuba I, Canary Islands!, Nnbia!]. 



/ , 115. E. pilulifera, L. Annual, diffuse or erect, pubescent; leaves semiovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, ^OM<e(?, oblique at the base, serrate; cymes axillary and terminal, contracted: pe- 

 duncles exceeding the petiole; involucre with minute, rounded glands; capsule hairy ; seeds 

 ecarunoolate, pale, tetragonal, transversely rugulose : wrinkles about six, obtuse. — Dese. Fl. 



y;-3. t. 227.— E. hirta, L. E. obliterata, Jacq., 5w.— Leaves 6"'-12"' long.— Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Macf., Sist., March; Antigua!, Dominica!, S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad!, Schach, Or., 

 [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to Buenos Ayres !, and all other tropical countries]. 



^ 116. B. hypericifolia, i. Annual, erect or ascending; leaves oblong or lanceolate, 

 oblique at the base, serrulate or repand; cymes terminal, and the axillary ones exserted; in- 

 volucre with the rounded glandular appendages often petaloid ; capsule obtuse-angled, with 

 3 filiform keels ; seeds ecai'unculate, blackish, obtusely tetragonal, transversely wrinlded : 



p wrinkles about three to four, obsolete.— SI. 1. 126.— Stem l'-3' high, at length suffl-utesoent; 



' leaves l"-2" long; cymes loose or contracted; petaloid margin of the appendages broad or 

 obsolete. 



a. Glabrous ; leaves oblong or oblong-linear, blunt ; capsule glabrous, 

 /3. hyssopifolia, L. Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, tapering towards the pointed or blnntish 

 top ; capsule smooth. 



y. lasiocarpa, Kl. Stems villous above ; leaves oblong, blunt ; cymes contracted ; capsule 

 villous. — E. Berteriana, Balb., Or. Fl. Carib. — Hab. Jamaica!, all collectors, common (a, ^,y) 

 to Trinidad \, Lockh., Or. (a and j8) ; [United States I to Chili !, Australia !, Yerona !, Sicily !, 

 Madeira !]. 



§ 4. Shrubs or htrbs ; leaves exstipulate, inferior oMemate ; involucres in a 

 terminal cluster. 



117. E. punicea, Ait. Shrubby, glabrous; leaves lanceolate, quite entire, coriaceous; 



bracts crimson, interior 2-3, ovate-roundish, much exceeding the terminal, 5-rayed cluster ; 



involucre with 5-6, rounded, flat (/lands ; seeds . . . — Sm. Ic. Pict. t. 3 ; Jacq. le. Sar. t. 



484; Hesc. Fl. 3. t. 194.— 15'-20' high; leaves 6"-l" long; interior bracts 12"'-8"' long. 



— Hab. Bahamas!, i%)ami.; Jamaica!, ^i/s., in rocky mountains ; [Cuba!]. 



/ 118. E. heterophylla, Z. Annual (or biennial), glabrous or puberulons ; leaves dif- 



t form, ovate, fiddle-shaped, and linear ; involucres pedicellate, with 5 incised lobes : glands 



5 , cyathiform, sessile, 5-1 (or abortive) ; seeds suhglobose, tubercled ; caruncle very minute.- — 



An erect or ascending, very polymorphous herb ; leaves quite entire, or serrate-sinuate, upper 



T^ones and bracts usually with a red blotch. 



a. Leaves either all linear, entire, or most of them ovate, serrate, with the bracts linear. 

 —Flum. Ed. Burm. t. 251./. 3 : the latter form. 



j8. cyathophora, Jacq. Leaves fiddle-shaped, with two large teeth, or ovate, entire ; bracts 

 lanceolate. — Jaoq. lo. Sar. t. 480 ; a higher, sufiutesceut form. 



y. p'unifoUa, Jacq. Iieaves ovate or elliptical, serrate, long-petioled, uppermost opposite ; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate. — Jacq. Schaenbr. t. 277.^ — Hab. Bahamas!, Swains.; Jamaica!, 

 Wils., March (a, 7); Trinidad!, Or. (7); [Illinois! to Peru!]. 



§ 5. Leaves exatipulate, alternate below the umbellate inflorescence. 

 / 119*. E. Feplus, L. Annual, glabrous; leaves obovate, petioled, quite entire; umbel 

 I 3-rayed ; glands of the involucre bicornute ; capsule glabrous : cocei 3-keeled ; seeds carun- 

 > > ,culate, subhexagonal : 4 dorsal facets A-pitted, 3 anterior channelled with a longitudinal 

 groove. — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica!, March; [introduced from Europe]. 



XX. CAKTOPHYLLEiE. 



[Portulaeeee. Kcoidese.] 

 Ovary unilocular, with a central placenta, or syncarpous ; styles mostly several. Embryo 

 excentrical: perisperm central, mealy. — Herbs, with tumid nodes ; leaves quite entire, usw 

 ally opposite. 



