68 CABYOPKYLLE^, [Detmaeia. 



A diffuse glabrous annual. Branches 1-2 ft., slender. Leaves petioled, 

 3-5-nerved from the base, ovate-cordate, elliptic or orbicular, mucronate ; 

 stipules of several bristles. Flowers very small, ^ in. in diam.; pedicels 

 slender. Bracts with membranous edges. Petals 2-lobed to below the 

 middle, shorter than the sepals. Stamens 3-5. Ovules 3 or more. Capsule 

 ovoid, trigonous, 3-valved to the base. 8eeds orbicular, compressed, 

 muriculate. 



Shady moist ground, common in Dehra Dun, often a weed in gardens. 

 DiSTBiB.: Punjab, and throughout Trop. and Sub-trop. India and 

 Ceylon ; Himalaya up to 7,000 ft. ; Trop. Asia, Africa and America, 



7. POLYCARPON. Linn, ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 244. 



Diffuse or dichofcomonsly branched glabrous or pubescent herbs. 

 Leave'? flat, opposite, appearing whorled from the presence of axillary 

 fascicles of leaves. Stipules scarious. Flowers small, in crowded 

 many-flowered cymes. Bracts scarious. Sepals 5, keeled. Petals 5 

 small, hyaline, entire or toothed. Stamens 3-5. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 style short, 3-fid ; ovules numerous. 



P, LoeflingiSB, Benfh. ^ RU. /. Gen. i, 153 ; F. B. I. i, 245. Loeflingia 

 indica, Retz. / Boxb. Fl. Ind. % 165. Hapalosia Lceflingiae, Wall. ,♦ W, Sf A. 

 Trod. 858 

 An erect or difEuse, glabrous or pubescent annual. Branches numerous 



4-10 in. Leaves cuneate, linear-oblong or spathulate. Cymes terminal in 



the forks. Flowers ^in. in diam. Sepals fleshy, obtusely keeled. 



Petals shorter than the sepals, linear, truncate, apex toothed. Seeds 



many, subcylindric. 

 A common weed in gardens and waste places. Disteib.: Throughout 



the hotter parts of India ; also in Africa. 



8. POLYCARP.aEA, Lamk. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 245. 



Annual or perennial, usually erect herbs. Leaves flat, opposite, or 

 appearing whorled from the presence, of axillary fascicles of leaves; 

 stipules scarious. Flowers many, in effuse or contracted or capitate 

 cymes. Sepals 5, scarious and often coloured. Petals 5, entire, 

 2-tootlied or with erose margins. Stamens 5, sabperigynou s, free or 

 cohering together and with the petals into a tube. Ovari/ 1-celled ; 

 style slender, 3-fid. or-dentate ; ovules many. Capsule 3-valved. 

 Seeds obovoid or compressed. • 



P. corymtoosa. Lamh. III. ii, 129 ; W. & A. Prod. 358 ;D. & G. Bomb 

 Fl.6',F,B. I. i, 245 ; Watt K D. P. spadicea, Lamlc. ; W. ^ A. Ic. Celo- 

 Bia JorymboBa, Eetz.; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 681. 



