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Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed few-flowered cymes. Sepals 5, 
ovate-cuspidate, with membranous margins. Petals 0. Staminodes 
many, subhypogynous, narrow, connate at the base. Stamens 12 or 
more, inserted at the base of the calyx, subhypogynous. Ovary free, 
globose, 5-sulcate, 5-celled ; styles 5, filiform ; ovules many, axile. 
Capsule subglobose, included in the calyx, 5-celled ; loculicidally 
5-valved, many-seeded. Seeds reniform, strophiolate. 
Species 1. 
1. Orvg’ia tiecumbens Forsk. FI Aeg.-Arab. p. 103; DC. 
Prodr. Ill, 455 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Y. Suppl. p. 20 ; Boiss. FI. 
Or. I, 755 ; Harv.-Sond. FI. Cap. I, 136. 
Glinus trianthemoides Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. p. 231. 
Portulaca decumbens Vahl Symb. I, 33. 
Talinum decumbens Willd. Sp. PI. II, 864. 
Orygia mucronata Klotsch in Peters' Reise nach Mossamb. p. 140, 
t. 25. 
Axonotechium trianthemoides Fenzl in Ann. Wien. Mus. I, 354. 
Description : — Decumbent, diffuse, from a few inches to 1 — 2 feet 
Mgh. Leaves | — 1 inch by ^ — f inch, alternate, obovate, glabrous, 
glaucous. 
Bracts at the base of the peduncles | — L inch long, membranous, 
pinkish. Flowers light carmine-red. Staminodes about 20, purple-red. 
Capsule pale-yellow. 
Mowers: — April 1844 (Lunt). 
Fruits : — March 1878 (Perry), Dec. 1847 (Hooker), Dec. 1889 
(Defl.). 
Locality : — From the seashore to a height of 1,000 feet (Edgew., 
Hooker) ; Shum Shum Range (Ellenbeck); plain of Maala, valleys near 
the telegraph office (Defl.); Goldmore Valley, nearly sea level (Lunt) ; 
without locality (Perry, Hunter). 
Distribution : — Africa, Arabia, Baluchistan, Sind, Punjab, Mysore. 
3. Mollugo Linn. 
Erect or diffuse glabrous, pubescent or stellately tomentose herbs, 
often dichotomously branched. Leaves often falsely whorled or alter- 
nate, or all radicle, linear, obovate or spathulate ; stipules membranous, 
fugaceous. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, fascicled or in diffuse or umbelliform 
cymes, usually greenish. Sepals 5, subequal, persistent, with membranous 
margins. Petals 0. Stamens 3 — 5, subhypogynous, usually alternate 
