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N. 0. PORTULACFJE. 
118. Portulaca oleracea, Linn. H.f.b.i., I. 246, 
Roxb. 391. 
Sans. : — Loni. 
Vern. Khursa, khurfa, kurfe-ka-sag, Ionia, muncha, 
lunia, kurfa, munya, kulfa lunuk, nonkha, chhota-lunia, bara- 
lunia, luniya-kulfah; Seeds = khurfe-ke-bij (Hind.); Baraloniya, 
munya, chhotalunia, kulfi ; Seed = tukhm-kulpha, baraloniya-bij 
(Beng.) ; Puruni-sag (Uriya) ; Mota uric alang (Santal.) ; Luniya, 
nunia lunak, desi-kulfah (U. P.); Luniya-kulfab, lunak 
(Kumaon); Lonak, kulfa, luniya, kundar ; Seeds = dhamni (Pb.) ; 
Murlai, tursbuk, warkharai (Pushtu); Lonak (Sind.); Ghol, 
gholu, (C. P.); Kurfali, gol, moti ghol (Bom.); Bhuigholi (Mar.); 
Loni (Guz.) ; Kliulfe-ki-bhaji ; Seeds = khulfe-ke-binj (Dec.); 
Parpu-kire, passelie kiray, caril-kiray, parupu, puropu-kiray, 
caric-kiray : Seeds = parpu-kire virai, pedda-pail-kuru, boddu- 
pavili kura, ganja-pavili-kura, batchali aku : Seeds = pappukura- 
vittula, pedda-pavila-kura vittulu, boddu-pavili kura-vittulu, 
(Tam.) ; Pappu-kura, pedda-pavili-kura, boddu-pavili-kura, 
ganga-pavili-kura (Tel.); Duda gorai (Kan.); Korie chira 
(Malay.) ; Kourfa kara-or, baqlatul humqa, buklut-ul-kukenia, 
khurfa. 'Seeds = bazrul-baqlatul humqa (Arab.) ; Cholza, khur- 
fab, turuk, kurfah, kherefeh, turk : Seeds = tukhme-khurfa 
(Pers.). 
Habitat : — Throughout India, in all warm climates. Found 
in the Himalaya. An abundant weed, in cultivated grounds, 
tJiroughout Ceylon. 
A short annual herb, with stout, glabrous, numerous, 
prostrate or ascending subsucculent branches, J-l ft. Leaves 
alternate, £-l£ in., rounded-truncate, crowded beneath the 
branches, oblong spathulate, very obtuse, thick pale and 
glistening beneath. Petiole very short. No stipular append- 
ages. Infloresence of few-flowered terminal heads, either solitary 
or in dichotomous cymes. Flowers sessile, inconspicuous, with 
a few ovate, pointed, scarious scales. Petals 4-5, yellow, about 
