7. Petals or petaloid staminodes numerous, united at the base. Stamens numerous. Flowers conspicuous. Leaves exstipulate, fleshy.--Species 1 =Orygia= Forsk. Petals none, but the stamens sometimes intermixed with staminodes. Leaves stipulate. 8 8. Styles linear or slightly club-shaped. Stipules membranous, entire. 9 Styles obovate or wedge-shaped. Stipules fringed or sheath-like. 10 9. Ovules with a long funicle. Seeds crowned by an appendage of the funicle. Pericarp firm.--Species 3. Used in medicine. =Glinus= L. Ovules with a short funicle. Seeds without an appendage of the funicle. Pericarp thin. Stamens 3-10. Glabrous herbs with narrow leaves.--Species 10. Tropical and South Africa. Some species are used in medicine. =Mollugo= L. 10. Disc cup-shaped, lobed or divided. Stamens 3-5. Stipules fringed.--Species 17. South Africa, Madagascar, St. Helena. =Pharnaceum= L. Disc none. Stipules sheath-like. Leaves thread-shaped.--Species 4. South Africa. =Hyperstelis= E. Mey. 11. (1.) Ovary superior. Petals none. 12 Ovary inferior. [Tribe MESEMBRIANTHEMEAE.] 18 12. Fruit transversely dehiscent, circumscissile. Leaves opposite. [Tribe SESUVIEAE.] 13 Fruit longitudinally dehiscent, loculicidal or septicidal. [Tribe AIZOEAE.] 14 13. Ovary 1-2-celled. Ovules solitary or few, basal or subbasal. Pericarp thick in the upper part. Seed-coat wrinkled.--Species 10. Some of them are used as vegetables or in medicine. (Plate 43.) =Trianthema= L. Ovary 3-5-rarely 2-celled. Ovules numerous, axile. Pericarp thin. Seed-coat smooth. Flowers red.--Species 6. Tropical and South Africa. Some of them have edible seeds, or serve as vegetables. (Including _Diplochonium_ Fenzl and _Halimus_ Rumph.) =Sesuvium= L. 14. Stamens 4-5. Ovary-cells and styles 3. 15 Stamens 8 or more. 16 15. Ovary-cells 1-ovuled. Filaments long. Fruit roundish. Shrubs with silky hairs. Leaves all cauline, opposite or alternate, imbricate, triangular-ovate, without stipules. Flowers axillary, yellowish.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Plinthus= Fenzl Ovary-cells several-ovuled. Filaments short. Fruit linear-oblong. Glabrous herbs. Radical leaves lanceolate to ovate, with fringed stipules; cauline leaves whorled, filiform. Flowers in cymes, whitish-green.--Species 2. South Africa. =Coelanthum= E. Mey. 16. Stamens numerous. Ovary 4-5-celled. Styles 4-5. Ovules 2 or more in each cell. Flowers yellow.--Species 12. Some of them have edible seeds. =Aizoon= L. Stamens 8-10, rarely more, but then ovary 2-celled and styles 2. Ovules 1 or 2 in each cell. 17 17. Stamens 10 or more. Ovary 2-celled. Styles 2. Ovules basal. Stem glabrous.--Species 4. South Africa. =Acrosanthes= Eckl. & Zeyh. Stamens 8, rarely 10, but then ovary 3-5-celled, styles 3-5, and stem hairy or warty. Ovules pendulous, 1 in each cell.--Species 20. South Africa to Angola. =Galenia= L.