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by a few ovate, pointed scarious bracts: petal* 5, equal to tho sepals, 
yellow: stamens 8 to 12: stifle 3-8-clcft : seeds pnnetato : Iloxb. Fl. 
Ind. II, 463; W. & A. Prodr. 356. P. lavis, Ham. in Wail. Oat. 6841. 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 246. P. sutfruticosa, Thw. Ennm. 24 (not of 
"Wight). 
In the Andamans, and probably in all the Provinces, in waste places. 
Distrib. . All warm climates. 
2. Portulaca quadki fii>a, Linn. An annual with diffuse filiform 
stems, rootiug at the nodes ; nodal appendages copious, pilose. Leaves 
flat, opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, almost sessile ; length '2 
to '35 in. Flowers solitary, terminal ; calyx tube partly immersed in 
the extremity of the axis, surrounded by long silky hairs and by about 
4 bmcteoles : petals 4, yellow ; stamens 8 to 12 ; stifle filiform, deeply 
4-iid. Seeds minutely tuberculate, DC. Prod. Ill, 354. Wight III. ii, t. 
109. Hook, fil Fl. Br. Ind. I, 247. Oliver Fl. Trop, Africa, I, 149. P. 
vieridiana, L. Roxb., Fl. Ind. II, 463. P. geniculata, Royle III. 221. 
jP. anceps, Rich. Fl. Abyssiu., I, 301. 
Penang, in the Fort ; Curtis. Distrib. Throughout the Tropics of 
Asia, S. Africa. 
Order XIII. HYPERICINEJE. 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, of ton punctate with 
pellucid glands or dark glandular dots, entire or glandular-toothed ; 
stipules 0. Flowers solitary or cymose, terminal, rarely axillary. Sepals 
and ]xtah each 5, rarely 4 ; petals contorted in bud. Stamens inde- 
finite, or rarely definite, 3- or 5-adelphous, rarely free or all connate ; 
anthers versatile. Ovary 3- 5-carpellary, I- or 3-5-celled ; styles as many, 
filiform, free or united ; ovules few or numerous, on parietal or axilo 
placentas, anatropous, raphe lateral or superior. Fruit capsular or bac~ 
tato. Seeds exalbuminous, sometimes winged ; embryo straight or 
curved. Distrib. Temp, countries and mountains of warm regions ; 
genera 8, species about 210. 
1. Cratoxylon, Blume. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves entire, usually papery. Inflorescence axil- 
lary or terminal, cymose. Sepals and petals each 5, Stamens 3- or 5- 
adolplums, with fleshy hypogynous glands alternating with the bundles. 
Ovary 3-ceIled ; styles distinct; ovules 4-8 in each cell. Capsule 3- 
valved, seeds winged. Distrib. Tropical Asia; species about 12. 
Sect. I. Ancistrolobds, Spach. Petals sub-persistent, inappoudi- 
culate. Stamens 3-delphous ; glands more or less eucullate. 
1. Cratoxvlos i-un anthum, Ivorth. Verhand. Nat, Gesch. Bot. 175, 
t. 36. A large shrub, or tree 30 to 40 feet high, all parts ghibrous 
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