158 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
Hab. RB. Urdschar, in the desert of Soungaria; valleys north 
of the Thian-Schan Range (Ruprecht, ew Mém. Acad. Sc. St. 
Pétersb., xiv. [1869]) ; Unzere Boratola (Regel, It. Turkestan., 
Vili.). 
B. Petala bipartita. 
a. Capsula carpophorum subeequans. 
323. StneNE MuLTIFLORA, Pers., Syn. Pl. i. p. 496 (1805) ; 
Waldst. et Kit., Pl. Rar. Hung., i. t. 56 (Cucubalus multifloras) ; 
‘Rohrb., Monogr., p. 203. 
Geogr. limits—N. Near Semipalatinsk, on the R. Irtysch, 
Siberia. 
S. The Dobrudscha, in Roumania (Kanittz, Pl. 
Roman., suppl., p. 182 [1881]). 
EH. Desert of Soungaria. 
W. Neusiedler See, in Hungary. 
324. S. cepHaLenta, Heldr., Fl. Cephalon., p. 26 (1883) ; Bovss., 
Fl. Orient., suppl., p. 106. 
Inferne pube asperulé canescens. Caules adscendentes, 
superne viscidi, laxe racemoso-paniculati. Folia inferiora con- 
ferta spathulata acuta, superiora admodum diminuta linearia. 
Ramuli panicule patentes, apice pauciflori; flores breviter pedi- 
cellati secundi, pedicellis fructiferis cernuis. Calyx cylindrico- 
clavatus glanduloso-pubescens, dentibus triangularibus, acutis, 
albo-marginatis. Petela livida, ecoronata, lobis linearibus. 
Semina rugulosa dorso canaliculata. 
Affinis facie S. congestw a qua differt pube asperula, inflores- 
centia laxiore, foliis acutis, calycis dentibus acutis, carpophoro 
capsulam equante. 
Hab. Ionian Islands ; Cephalonia (Heldreich [1872]). 
b. Capsula carpophorum 3-4-plo excedens. 
325. S. aicanrea, Linn., Sp. Plant., ed. 1. p. 418, et (accura- 
tius) in ed. II. p. 598; Sibth. et Sm., Fl. Greeca, v. t. 432 ; 
Rohrb., Monogr., p. 203. 
B. VIRIDESCENS, Boiss., #1. Orient., i. p. 646. 
Viridescens, indumento parciore. Panicula viscosissima ; 
cyme plus minus effuse nec confertim florifera. 
