24 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
centralis apicem, vel in medio desinentibus, superne uniloculare ; 
ovula plurima amphitropa funiculis distinctis in singulis loculis 
biseriatim placentis inserta. Styli 3, filiformes vel subclavati, 
intus papillosi. Capsula chartacea vel crustacca, oblouga, 
ovata vel subglobosa, basi plus minus trilocularis, apice in 
dentes duplo styloram numerum dehiscens. Semina plurima 
reniformia vel globosa, interdum dorso utrinque ala undulata 
cincta, levia striolata granulata vel tuberculata: embryo fere 
annularis vel hemicyclicus, excentricus, albumen farinaceum 
cingens, raro albumine in seminum alis undualatis incluso ; 
radicula dorsalis. 
Silene, Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. I (1755); Gen. Plant., ed. I, 
p. 182, n. 372 (1737). 
Viscago, Hall., Enum. Stirp. Helv., i, p. 373 (1742). 
Muscipula, Rupp., Fl. Jenensis (ed. Hall.), p. 125 (1745). 
Atocion, Adans., Fam. Pl., ii (1763), p. 254. 
Oberna, Adans., l.c., p- 255. 
Otites, Adans., l.c., p. 255. 
Kaleria, Adans., l.c., p. 506. 
Behen, Moench, Meth., p. 709 (1794). 
Corone, Hoffmg. ex. Steud., Nom. Bot., ed. II, i, p. 422 
(1840). 
Diplogama, Opiz, Seznam, p. 38 (1852). 
Cheiropetalum, Fries, Ind. Sem. Hort. Upsal., 1857: ex 
_ Urban, Addit. Ind. Sem. Hort. Berolin. (1881), p. 11. 
Oncerum, Dulac, FI. Hautes-Pyr., p. 255 (1867). 
Leptosilene, Fourr., in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xvi (1868), 
p. 344. 
Petrosilene, Fourr., lee. 
Behenantha, Schur, in Verh. Naturf. Ver. Brinn, xv, I, 
(1877), p. 130. 
Species in tria subgenera disponuntur :— 
I. GASTROSILENE. II. CONOSILENE. IIT. EKUSILENE. 
Subgenus I. GASTROSILENE. 
Calyx 10-vel 20-nervius, nervis reticulato-venosis, vesicarie inflatus 
post anthesin semper ampliatus, fructifera capsula remotus. Species 
erennes, 
