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from the base. • ^ 
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4 Stamens 6-17; stigmas 2-5; petals rose-pink; seeds dark 
metallic blue, with a tuberculate margin, the surfaces set 
with slightly raised coarsely stellate tubercules. Hawaiian 
Islands.- . ... ... P. cyaiwspehna 
4 Stamens 26-44; stigmas 5-7; petals pale pink and white, or 
entirely white; seeds dull black, the margin entire, the 
an ~f a „ ao -—. Hawaiian Islands. ... P. villosa 
one-fourth way up from the base. 
~ ™r—^«^v*«*vwiai-(>void, woody, 0.2 rum. thick; 
placentas thick, rigid; seeds small, stellate-rugose, shining 
mahogany-brown; petals purplish or whitish, 10 mm. long; 
leaves subulate when living; axillary hairs 8 mm. Ion? 
tawny. Hawaiian Islands. ... ... P. sclerocarpa 
5 Capsule lid ovoid, thin cartilagineous, 0.05 mm. thick; 
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piacentas flaccid; seeds stellate-rugose, shining dark maho- 
m gany-brown; petals basally white, apically pink, 10-13 mm. 
^ long; leaves when living lanceolate-oblong, thickish, 5-15 
mm. long, somewhat flattened; axillary hairs pale, 1-3 mm. 
long. Hawaiian Islands. ... ... P. hawaiiensis 
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Subgenus PORTULACA 
beet. Portulaphiton Legrand in Com. Bot. Mus. Hist. Nat 
Montevideo n. 31:6. 1953; n. 34:5. 1958. 
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1. PortutacO' vleracea L., Sp. PI. 445. 1753; Hillebrand in Fl. 
Haw. Ids. 39. 1888; Calm in Bish. Mus. Occ. Pap. 11:8. 1936. 
A low prostrate annual, fleshy, glabrous, with bilaminar obovate 
or spathulate leaves; flowers small, yellow, sessile above the last 
eaves, inconspicuous; axillary hairs lacking; sepals carinate; petals 
tugacious, scarcely exceeding the calyx; stamens 7-12; stigmas about 
5; seeds minutely granular. 
“Pumlane” v>r “pigweed”; ..akulikuU lauliY' (Hawaiian). A 
P an * r .°P lc wee «> now found in gardens, vacant lots, disturbed areas, 
roadsides, etc., near the sea or at moderate elevations up to three 
r. 
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or four hundred meters on a 11 “islands" 1 “ The" pla misTdib le'Taw 
or cooked. r 
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12:5.1936, r 
ornamented at base; otherwise similar to the 
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