Malacca ; Pcrak. Distrib. Sumatra. (Bcccari, P. S. No. 643.) 
21. Xanthopiiyllum insione, A. W. Benn. in Hook. til. F). Br. Ind. 
1,211. A glabrous tree with pale brauohlets. Leaves drying brown, 
coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, the base slightly narrowed j upper surface 
shining; lower dull, pale, the G-8 pairs of nerves and rather wide reticu- 
lations prominent ; length 4'5 to 0 5 in., breadth 3 to 3"5 in. ; petiole stout, 
'6 in. Racemes 3 to 4 in. long, axillary, sometimes terminal and panichd. 
Flowers '6 to '75 iu. long ; sepals unequal, sub-orbicular, puberulous. 
Petals spathulate, glabrous except the pubescent claw ; keel adpressed- 
sei iceous, its claw pubescent. Stamens 8, the filaments flat at the base 
and rising from an annular entire undulate disc which surrounds tbu 
ovary. Ovary ovoid, ridged, glabrous, ovules 16 ; style little curved, 
glabrous, Fruit globose, 3 in. in diam., minutely rugose, pericarp '5 in., 
thick ; seeds oblong, 1 in. long, embedded in pulp. 
Malacca; Maingay, No. 343. Miller. 
Oroek XII. PORTULACE^E. 
Herbs, rarely uudershrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire ; 
nodes with scarious or hairy appendages, rarely naked. Inflorescence 
various. Sepals 2, imbricate. Petals 4-5, hypogynous or perigynons, 
free (or united below), fugacious. Stamens 4-oo , inserted with {rarely 
upon) the petals, filaments slender ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary free, or 
^-inferior, 1-celled ; style 2-8-lid, divisions stigmatose; ovules 2-oo , on 
basal funicles or a central column, amphitropal. Capsule with trans- 
verso or 2-3-valvular dehiscence. Seeds 1- oc, compressed ; embryo 
curved round a mealy albumon. Distrib. Cosmopolitan, chiefly Ameri- 
can : genera 15, species about 125. 
1. Portulaca, Linn. 
DiiTnse, usually succulent, annual or perennial herbs. Leaves with 
scaly or hairy nodal appondages. Flowers terminal, surrounded hy a 
whorl of leaves, solitary or clustered. Bepah connato below, the fico 
part deciduous. Petals 4-6, perigynons or epipetalous. Ovary ^-inferior ; 
style 3-8-fid ; ovules oo. Capsule crustaceous, dehiscing transversely. 
Seeds oo, reniform. Distrib. Tropicnl regions, chiefly American ; 
one or two are cosmopolitan weeds extending to temperate regions ; 
species 16. 
I. Portulaca oleracka, Linn. An annual glabrous, sub-succulent, 
prostrate herb, 6 to 12 inches long; sometimes with minute scarious 
appendages at the nodes. Leaves flat, en mate-oblong, rounded or 
truncate at the apex, '25 to 125 in. long: petiole very short. Flowers in 
few-flowered terminal heads or in dichotomous cymes, sessile, surrounded 
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