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Lungyung and Tisum, at 4570 m., 1848 (Strachey 9 Winterbottom). 
Khamba Fort, 1903 (Col. Younghusband, n. 1121). 
The Tibetan plant is a high alpine dwarf form distinct in the much shorter 
and less pointed leaves, and in being more compact in habit. 
5. STELLARIA LANATA, Hook. f. 
Redong-Oong, near Chumbi, 1878 (Dungboo, n. 1131). Dang Chin, a 
mountain west of Chumbi, 1882 (King’s collector, n. 1130). 
6. STELLARIA CHERLERLE, Williams, т Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser, 2, vii. 
(1907) 830. 
Central Tibet : Gooring Valley, at 5030 m. (Littledale, 1895). 
Var. vxiFLORA, Williams, т Bull. Herb. Boiss. sér. 2, vii. (1907) 852. 
N. Tibet (Przewalski, 1884). Central Tibet: Gooring Valley, at 5050 m. 
(Littledale, 1895) ; between camps 26-27 (Sven Hedin, 14 Sept. 1896), 
E. Tibet: Tangut (Przewalski, 1884). B. Tibet: Chumbi (King's collector, 
1882, n. 1168; C. H. Bell, 1904, Tibet Frontier Commission, n. 1154) ; 
Phari (Dungboo, 1877, n. 4594). 
Var. FAsCICULATA, Williams, т Bull. Herb. Boiss. sér. 2, vii. (1907) 833. 
№. Tibet (Przewalski, 1884) : Yatung, lat. 27° 51 long. 88? 35 (H. Е. 
Hobson, 1897). S. Tibet (King’s collector, 1882, n. 1167) : Za-ne-gang, 
between Chumbi Fort and Cho Pass (King, 1882, n. 1208) ; Put-lo, in the 
Chumbi district (King’s collector, 1884, n. 21). 
T. STELLARIA ARENARIA, Maxim. Fl. Tangutica, р. 91, t. 29. fig. 18 (1889). 
Tangut (Przewalski, 1884 ; type-specimens in Herb. Petropolit.). 
$. KRASCHENINNIKOWIA HIMALAICA, Korshinsky, in Bull. Acad. Pétersh. 
1898, p. 40. 
Syn.—Stellaria Davidi, var. himalaica, Franch., Pl. Delavay. i. р. 100; 
Stellaria bulbosa, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 231, non Wulf. ; Krascheninni- 
kowia rupestris, auct., non Turez. 
Tibet: on the Bhutan frontier, at Ga-leng-kya, 1882 (King's collector, 
п. 1136), and on the Pay-Goong Pass in the Chumbi district, 1884 (King's 
collector, n. 441). 
Korshinsky has re-established and defined this genus on a satisfactory 
basis, and clearly distinguishes the 9 species which are now included in it. 
9. CERASTIUM PUMILUM, Curtis. 
Tibet, without locality, 1884 (King's collector, * Fl. of Thibet, n. 344 ”) ; 
valley around Chumbi, 1904 (Е. H. Walsh, n. 18). 
Var. ALPESTRE, Williams, comb. nov. 
Phari, 1877 (King, “ Fl. of Thibet Himalaya," n. 4583). 
