Montia L.

2. Montia L. 4

Glabrous, somewhat fleshy herbs with opposite, exstipulate cauline leaves. Flowers in terminal cymes. Stamens 5 or 3. Ovary superior. Fruit a globose capsule dehiscing with three valves. Seeds few, black, broadly reniform. Includes American species often placed in Claytonia L. ; the generic boundary here adopted follows F. Pax & K. Hoffmann in Engler & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 16c: 257 (1934). 1 No basal leaf-rosette; cauline leaves numerous; corolla very

small, zygomorphic, gamopetalous 1. fontana 1 Basal leaf-rosette and a single pair of cauline leaves present;

corolla obvious, actinomorphic, of 5 free petals 2 Cauline leaves broadly connate; petals 2-3 mm, white 2. perfoliata 2 Cauline leaves not connate; petals 8-10 mm, usually pink

3. sibirica