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PORTULACA pilosa. 
Hairy Brasilian Purslane. 
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DODECANDRIA MONOGYNLA. 
Nat. ord. PoRTULACER. Jussieu gen. 312. Div. [. Fructus unilocularis. 
PORTULACA. Cal. superus bipartitus, tardits basi circumscissus et 
deciduus. Petala 5, rarils 4, basi calycis inserta, ipsoque longiora, ses- 
/silia, qualia. Stamina crebra, ibidem inserta, coroll4 breviora. Fila- 
menta libera. Anthere biloculares, longitudinalitér dehiscentes. Ovarium 
( ERG ) inferum vel semiinferum, uniloculare; owulis crebris. Stylus unus, 
superné 3-8-fidus. Capsula unilocularis, polysperma, circumscissa. Pla- 
cente tot quot stigmata, fundo capsule affix, quibus semina per podosper- 
mia (funiculi umbilicales) insident. Semina subcochleato-lenticularia, tu- 
burculato-scabra. Integumentum exterius crustaceum fragile, interius te- 
nuissimé membranaceum. Embryo teres endospermis (albumini) centrali 
farinoso circumpositus. Radicula supera. Herbe succulente. Folia sparsa, 
interdum subverticillata, carnosa, integerrima, in axillis fasciculo ptlorum 
instructa. Flores terminales, solitarti, gemini, aut plures congestt, bracteis 
pilisque involucrati. Corollz pate, rosee, aut purpuree. Kunth noy. gen. 
et spec. 6, 71. \ 
P. pilosa, foriis sublatis alternis ; axillis, pilosis, floribus sessilibus termi- 
nalibus. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2, ~~ , | se" = 
Portulaca pilosa. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. Willd, sp. pl. 2. 860. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 3. 147. f 
Portulaca curassavica, angusto longo lucidoque folio, procumbens. Com- 
mel. hort. amst. 1. 9. tab. 5. 
Portulaca curassavica rae guingse procumbens. Herman. parad, 215, cum 
tab. 
Anacampseros supina, minor, foliis linearibus turgidis, floribus summis ra- 
mulis confertis. Browne j jam. 234. 
Said to have been cultivated in the King’s Banden, at 
Hampton Court, in 1690. 
Drawn from a plant ech flowered in the e collection of 
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