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(Ridley). Disirih, North temperate regions but spread into India, 
Java, etc., as a weed of cultivation. ^ . . j 
I found this, the Chickweed, abundantly in the cultivated grounds 
at the Cottage Bungalow in 1892, and noted it seemed thoroughly 
established there then, but it does not seem to have been collected 
there since. It was no doubt introduced in pot-plants or \\ith 
seeds. The plant is very variable. , . 
(2) S. uliginosa Murray Prod. Gotting. 55 i Sowerhy Eng. Bot. 
ii. p. gg, pi. 233. 
A slender, creeping ascending herb 6 in. long or more, glabrous. 
Stem slightly 4-angled. Leaves lanceolate acuminate acute, sessile, 
narrowed to the base, -25 in. long, -12 in. wide. Flowers small, in 
cymes in upper axils, usually 2, pedicels unequal, the shorter one 
bearing a female flower, the longer one a male flower. Sepals 5, 
lanceolate acuminate, green with a scarious edge, glabrous, -i m. 
long, free to base. Petals 5, slightly shorter, bifid, lobes lanceolate 
acute or absent. Stamens in male flower 10. Ovary oblong with 
3 very short styles. Capsule ovoid-oblong, shorter than the sepals, 
terminated by the minute stigmas, 3-valved, valves thin. Seeds 6 
or fewer orbicular reniform, strongly pustulate, slightly flattened 
dark chestnut. Hab. Perak, Maxwell's Hill on banks (Burkill 
12,815). Disirih. Europe, temperate Asia, India. No doubt 
accidentally introduced, but apparently established in the Peninsula. 
The specimens, which are very weak and small, are somewhat ab¬ 
normal. The flowers are mainly unisexual, the cymes consisting 
of two flowers in the upper axils; the one on the longest pedicel is 
usually only male, the one on the shorter pedicel female only, 
usually apetalous and without stamens. The petals when present 
are deeply bifid into two lanceolate lobes. 
Order XV. PortulacacejE. 
Vol. i. p. 151 , after sp. 2, Portulaca quadrifida Linn., msert :— 
{ 3 ) P- pilosa Lin 7 i. Sp. PI. 445 J P^'odr. hi. 354 i 
X. 792* 
A matted plant with woody much-branched prostrate stem, 
branches densely long-hairy, hairs white (red when dry). ^ Leaves 
sessile fleshy, flattened linear acuminate glabrous, *25 in. long, 
•05 in. wide. Flowers terminal axillary sessile solitary, bright 
mauve pink, -5 in. across, surrounded by subverticillate leaves 
and long hairs. Sepals lanceolate acuminate hairy. Petals narrow 
lanceolate acuminate. Capsule sessile, base cup-shaped, ■! in. 
long when dehisced. Seeds irregularly rounded oblong, flattened, 
black. Hah. Sandy spots near cultivation, Muar, Bukit Kyara 
(Ridley). Selangor, Telok Gadong (Nur). Disirih. A native of 
Brazil and the West Indies, often cultivated in tropical gardens 
as a carpet-bedding plant, and established as an escape in various 
warm parts of the world. 
FI.M.P., 5 
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