40 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
ciliatis. Filamenta glabra. Capsula ovata vel elliptico-oblonga, 
carpophoro dense retrorsum hispido plerumque sesquilongior. 
Semina faciebus plana, dorso canaliculata. 
A precedenti valde discrepat, caule scapiformi (nunquam 
ramoso) et parce folioso, calyce saturatius colorato latiore, 
forma petalorum, appendicibus duplo Jongioribus. 8S. ciliata, 
cujus specimina pauciflora quoad habitum nostris simillima, 
recedit defectu glandularum, caule rarius unifloro, calyce 
angustiore basi attenuato non umbilicato. 
Hab. In the mountainous district of Kuban, in the Western 
Caucasus, prov. of Cis-Caucasia. 
5. SILENE Brotuerana, Somm. et Lev. in Act. Hort. Petrop., xiii. 
(1893) p. 36. 
Caules basi suffrutescentes retrorsum tomentelli grisei 
numerosi adscendentes, axillis fasciculiferis. Folia breviter 
lanceolato-linearia mucronulata recurva apicem versus latiora, 
basi presertim ciliata ceterim glabrescentia ; bractee foliacese 
latiuscule ovate: acuminate. Cymule 3-6-flore pedunculate, 
plurime opposite, in racemum interruptum disposite vel apice 
caulis subcapitate. Calyx cylindrico-conicus glanduloso-hirsutus 
umbilicatus, fructifer ovatus basi vix angustatus nervis valde 
prominentibus costatus, dentibus ovatis obtusis apice ciliatis 
conniventibus. Petala alba bipartita, unguibus exsertis glabris, 
lobis linearibus, appendicibus binis brevibus ovatis obtusis. 
Filamenta glabra. Capsula ovato-conica sub lente corrugata, 
carpophorum retrorsum pubescens equans. Semina reniformia, 
fusca, obtuse tuberculata, faciebus plana, dorso canaliculata. 
Characteribus, 8. spergulifoliam et S.pruinosam, Boiss., revocat, 
primo intuitu autem dignoscitur calyce ampliato et evidenter 
a capsula remoto, ergo inter species subgeneris LEusilene 
(sectionis Botryosilene) enumerari non possit. A S. spergulifolia 
insuper differt, foliis latioribus et brevioribus, capsula parva ; 
a S. brachycarpa, Boiss. et Bal., preeterea capsuld non abrupte 
conico-rostrataé, carpophoro tenui magis elongato. 
Syn. S. spergulifolia (non Bieb.) in Brotherus, exsice. (1881), 
n. 138 bis. 
Hab. In the mountainous district of Azchur, in the Western 
Caucasus, prov. of Cis-Caucasia. 
6. S. canpicans, Celak. in Ocsterr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1876), 
p. 321 Boiss. Fl. Orient., suppl., p. 100. 
