CARYOPHYLLACEE OF SZE-CHUEN. 429 
oblongo-globosa  subsessilis, carpophoro brevissimo suffulta. 
Semina obtuse granulata, dorso late sulcata, faciebus depressa. 
Planta Silene Tatarinowii et S. rupestri affinis, petalis ecoro- 
natis et seminibus dorso late suleatis atque alioqui ab ambabus 
diversa; etiam fere facie MELANDRYI ADENANTHI, Williams (i. e. 
Silenes adenanthe, Franchet), speciei yunnanensis, sed capsula. 
subsessili non vere uniloculari et petalis emarginatis gaudet. 
Hab. Tachien-lu (Soulié, n. 111, 1893). 
Subg. Eusilene, sect. Botryosilene. 
5. SILENE TENUIS, Willd. 
Hab. Tachien-lu (Pratt, n. 551, 1890; Soulié, n. 101, n. 368, 
n. 645, 1893). 
All the specimens on these four sheets can be referred to this 
well-marked but polymorphous species. Franchet has described 
a forma rubescens trom Yun-nan, with rose-coloured petals and a 
more distinctly inflated calyx, but none of the above specimens 
seem to match no. 125 of the Abbé Delavay’s plants of Yun-nan, 
which is the type-specimen of this form: though one or more 
of them recall the form described by Regel as S. tenuis var. 
turgida. With this exception, not previously recorded from 
China proper; as the south limit of the species hitherto has 
been given as extending to Kunawar in the Himalayas (Jacque- 
mont ex Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 219). 
6. S. FonTUNETI, Vis. 
Hab. Sze-chuen, near the borders of Kan-su (G. N. Potanin, 
1885, fol. 276 in Herb. Kew). 
In a recent number of the * Botanical Magazine ' (April 1899, 
t. 7649) there is an excellent plate of this plant (which had not 
previously been figured), with carefully drawn details of floral 
structure, from specimens which flowered in the Herbaceous 
Collection at Kew Gardens in September 1898. The plant was 
raised from seeds collected in the province of Shen-si by Father 
Piccoli, of the Jesuit Mission in Hankow. 
MELANDRYUM. 
Sect. Gastrolychnis, Rohrbach. 
7. M. Sort, sp. nova. 
Caules erectiusculi pilis brevibus reflexis eglandulosis leviter 
vestiti, 1-3-flori. Folia inferiora lineari-lanceolata basi angus- 
