160 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
obcordata, lobis latis ovatis, cum dente vel lobulo laterali, 
appendicibus oblongis. Filamenta glabra. Capsula oblonga. 
Habitus S. repentis in form& autem petalorum diversa, etiam 
dispositione bractearum in pedicellis. 
Characters verified from authentic specimens in Herb. Kew. 
Hab. China; prov. of Yun-nan. 
Series 6. Spergulifolic. 
Flores in racemis simplicibus sive compositis, verticillastra 
plus minus densa, interdum pauciflora ferentibus: pedicelli 
medio seu apice binis prophyllis preediti. 
A. Petala multifida, lobis lateralibus brevibus. 
329. SILENE PACHYRRHIZA, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
xxxil. (1886) p. 427. 
Caules e radice crassa, debiles, erecti, puberulo-scabri ad 
apicem usque foliosi. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, breviter petio- 
lata, scabra, caulina mox decrescentia. Inflorescentia obligantha, 
floribus 3-4; bractes minute, acuminate; pedicelli dense 
puberuli. Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, umbilicatus, inferne 
parum angustatus, pilis brevissimis obsessus, dentibus ovatis, 
acutis. Petala rosea, unguibus auriculatis, glabris, lobis latera- 
libus triangularibus, lobis mediis linearibus, appendicibus 
oblongis. Filamenta glabra. Capsula ovato-conica. 
Characters verified, as in the preceding, from specimens in Herb. Kew. 
Hab. China; prov. of Yun-nan. 
339. S. Ota, Rohrb. in Linnea, xxxvi. (1870) p. 687 ; Maxim. 
in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sc. Pétersb., vii. (1865) p. 332 (Melandrium 
Olge). 
Caules erecti, solitarii vel plurimi, simplices vel paullum 
stricte ramosi, pilis crispis viscidis dense vestiti, 10-30 centim. 
longi. Folia lanceolata vel ovato - lanceolata acuminata, 
basi paullum angustata, hirtella, margine pilis longis ciliata, 
superiora et bractee pedunculoram medium versus sessiles 
sensim angustiores ac minores. Racemi rami 1-3-vel rarius 
pluriflori, calyce brevius pedunculati, pedunculis dense viscido- 
pubescentibus. Calyx 8-10 mm. longus, sepe rubescens, tur- 
binato-oblongus, fructifer ampliatus ovatus, pilis viscidis dense 
