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calvciflok-e. 
leaves obovate wedge-shaped at the base obtuse 
or slightly retuse with a minute marescent api- 
cula, panicle terminal elongated, peduncle sub- 
terete. 
Portulucce facie maritima fruticosa erecta Americana, 
Sloane, I. 205. — Anacampseros ibliis radicalibas mollibus 
ovatis glabris, scapo assurgenti paniculato. Browne , 234. 
— Talinum fruticosum. Willd. II. 864. 
II AB. Sea side : also, roadsides in the mountains. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
Root with the branches black and with oval tuberous 
enlargements: fibrillce capillary, black. Leaves usually 
opposite or sub-opposite, shortly petiolated, carnoso-coria- 
ceous, an inch and a half long, and one inch in breadth. 
Panicle nearly a foot in length : divisions coloured, dicho- 
tomously branched, filiform : flowers of a carmine colour, 
on inch-long pedicels. Sepals 2, roundish-concave, api- 
culated. Petals 5. Stamens 16-20. Style red : stigmata 
2, pruinose. Capsule 3-valvcd. Seeds reniform. 
ORDEll LXXXV. FICGIDEHE. * 
Calycine sepals usually 5, more or less com- 
bined at the base. Petals indefinite or O* Sta- 
mens pcrvginous, distinct, definite or indefinite. 
Ovary pluri-locular : stigmata several : ovules go 
attached by cords to a placenta either central or 
parietal. Capsule many-cclled, opening in a stel- 
lated or eircumcisal manner at the apex, or an 
indehiscent nut : seeds oo ; embryo curved or spi- 
ral, on the outside of mealy albumen : radicle 
next the hilum. 
Herbaceous or shrubby succulent plants, with opposite 
or alternate simple leaves. Natives of warm coun- 
tries. 
* Bkyophvllum calycinum, the life plant, belonging to t he 87 th 
Order of Decandolle (crassulace.'e), a native of the Moluccas and 
of the Mauritius, lias been introduced into the Island , and has btcuiue 
con pletely naturalized in the driest situations. 
