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LIX. FICOIDEzE. 
[Mollugo. 
rather large, in terminal clusters, onwery short pedicels. Outer calyx-segments 
about 2 lines long, with a narrow scarious border, inner ones rather larger at first, 
with a broader border, at length 8 lines long, broadly ovate, white and scarious, 
with a greenish centre. Stamens about 15, with a few staminodia, either all 
subulate or 2 or 8 flat thin and transparent. Styles 3 or rarely 4, quite free. 
Seeds not numerous, larger than those of M. < 'flinua , and the hair-like appendage 
to the funicle not so long, only half-encircling the seed. — Glinus orygioides, F. v. 
M. PI. Viet. i. 208. 
Hab : Towards Cooper’s Creek and other inland localities. 
3. 3VI. Spergula (Spurrey-like), Linn, Sgee. 131 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 334. 
Glabrous or somewhat pubescent when young, much and dichotomously branched, 
procumbent and spreading to 1ft. or more, or nearly erect when small. Leaves 
from obovate-oblong to almost linear, sometimes almost lin. long, much smaller 
on the flowering branches. Flowers in small clusters at the nodes, the pedicels 
as long as or longer than the calyx. Calvx-segments glabrous, from 1 to nearly 
14- line long. Stamens not above 10 and usually much fewer, with occasionally 
a few staminodia amongst them. Styles or style-branches and capsule-valves 3. 
Seeds rather numerous, the funicle thickened into a small arillus, with a filiform 
process more or less encircling the seed as in )l. Glinus. — G limns Mollugo, Fenzl 
in Ann. Wien. Mus. i. 350, with the synonyms adduced ; F. v. M. PI. Viet. i. 
203 ; M. Fane- Holt an dice, F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 14; M. glinoides, 
A. Rich. FI. Abyss, i. 48. not of Cambess ; iii. verticillata, Roxb.; M. parvi. flora , 
DC.; PJiarnnceum parriflontm, Roth ; P. Mollvgn, Linn ; Glinux Mollugo, Fenzl ; 
Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 24. 
Hab.. Brisbane River. 
The species is common in tropical Asia and Africa. 
4. IVI. stricta (upright), Linn. Ape c. PL e.d. alt. 31 ; F. c. M. 2nd Syst. 
Cens. Austr. PI. 53. Plant glabrous, stems much branched, leafy, about 1ft. high. 
Leaves f to 14in., whorled or opposite, varying from lanceolate-acute to obovate- 
obtuse, much narrowed at the base ; the petioles hence obscure. Cymes com- 
pound, the branches sometimes racemose. Sepals about 14 line long, elliptic or 
round. Stamens 3 to 5, filaments dilated. Styles 3, short, linear. Capsule as 
long as the sepals, globose, many-seeded. Seeds dark chestnut-coloured, covered 
with raised tubercular points ; embryo curled into three-quarters of a complete 
circle. — M. triphylla, Lour. FI. Cochine 79 ; M. Linkii, Seringe in DC. Prod.; iii. 
pentaphylla , Linn. DC. l.c. ; Pharnaceum strictum, triphyllum, and pentaphyllum, 
Spreng. Syst. i. 949, Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 26 ; Clarke in Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. 
Hab.: Given as a Queensland plant in F. v. M. 2nd Syst. Cens. Austr. PI. 53. 
5. IVI. Cerviana (an old name, probably after some person of the name of 
Cervian), Ser. in DC. Prod. i. 392 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 334. A little slender 
glabrous annual of a few inches, with filiform branches. Leaves in distant 
clusters, linear, mostly under 4in. long, the radical ones sometimes shorter and 
oblong. Pedicels filiform, longer than the leaves. Calyx-segments about \ line 
long when in flower, lengthening to nearly 1 line. Stamens usually 5, the fila- 
ments filiform from the base. Styles 3, short, distinct, stigmatic towards the 
end. Seeds numerous, small, without any appendage to the funicle. — Fenzl in 
Ann. Wien. Mus. i. 379 ; iii. umhellata, Seringe l.c.; Pharnaceum Cerviana, Linn.; 
F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 148. 
Hab.: Queensland, F. v. Mueller. 
The species is diffused oyer tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa and southern Europe. 
