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Polygala triphylla, Ham.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 201, var. glau- 
cescens.—Shan hills at 3000 feet. 
Northern and Central India, China, and the Malay peninsula. 
CARYOPHYLLEE. 
Silene ($ Eusilene) burmanica, Coll. et Hemsl.,n. sp. 
Herba perennis, erecta, 1-2-pedalis, habitu Lychnidis dioice, 
undique plus minusve aspere ferrugineo-pubescens, caulibus 
robustiuseulis vix ramosis, internodiis folia æquantibus vel bre- 
vioribus. Folia radicalia non visa, caulina erassiuscula, asperula, 
sessilia, ovato-oblonga vel lanceolata, interdum obovata vel spa- 
thulata, 1-2 poll. longa, aeuta vel abrupte breviterque acuminata, 
subtrinervia. Flores 5-meri, 9-10 lineas longi, pauci, dichotomo- 
cymosi, pedunculis brevibus glanduloso-hirsutis ; calyx fere 
cylindrieus, glanduloso-hirsutus, lobis brevibus ovato-oblongis 
obtusissimis vel rotundatis ; petala glabra, ealycem triente exce- 
dentes, inæqualiter quadrifida (lobis lateralibus minoribus inter- 
dum fere ad auriculas reductis), 2-squamata, lobis ovato-oblongis 
obtusis, squamis angustis elongatis; ovarium longiuscule stipi- 
tatum, glabrum, 1-loculare, stylis 3. Capsula ovoideo-oblonga, 
crustacea, nitida, semina (matura non visa) hippocrepiformia, 
rugosa. 
Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
Mr. Franchet describes sixteen new species of Silene from the 
Chinese province of Yunnan, only four of which are represented 
in the Kew Herbarium by authenticated specimens ; and after a 
careful comparison with his descriptions, we have come to the 
conclusion that this is new. Nevertheless the genus is so 
numerous in species, exceedingly difficult to discriminate in a 
dried state, that the present species may yet be ideutified with 
a previously described one. From a note on one of the sheets of 
S. burmanica it appears that there is a specimen of the same 
species in the Calcutta Herbarium from Momyen, just within the 
western border of Yunnan. 
Stellaria media, Cyr.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 230 —Shan hills 
4000 to 6000 feet. 
Arctie and North temperate regions generally, and widely 
colonized elsewhere. 
