182 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
At first sight this would appear to be an annual, as the plant has a very 
slender root. 
Hab. Anatolia. 
380. SineNE EREMITICA, Boiss., Fl. Orient., i. p. 644; Rohrb., 
Monogr., p. 223. 
Species floribus minoribus et carpophoro brevi ad seriem 
Brachypode accedens, sed ob calycem glabrum hic collocata. 
B. Astartes, Boiss. e¢ Blanche (sp.) in Boiss., Fl. Orient., 
suppl., p. 102. 
Folia tomentella, pallide virentia, surculorum ovato-oblonga 
in petiolam longum attenuata, caulina anguste linearia. Calyx 
nervis viridibus. 
Hab. Prov. of Aderbidjan, in N. Persia; var. 8. in the 
Lebanon (Blanche), and in the Anti-Lebanon (Post, in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss., i. [1893] p. 396). 
y. Petala integra. 
381. S. rancronata, A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Eaped., 1. p. 111, 
t. 10 (1854) ; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 223. 
Adde: Calyx evenius, in petiolum attenuatus. 
B. ANGUSTIFOLIA, Hillebrand, Fl. Haw. Isl., p. 28. 
Folia linearia tantum 2 mm. Jata. 
Hab. Hawaiian Islands. 
382. S. ALEXANDRI, Hillebrand, Kl. Haw. Isl., p. 28 (1883). 
Caulis erectus, glaber, paullum ramosus. Folia coriacea, 
glabra, lanceolata, acuta, ad basin angustatam ciliata; bractex 
et prophylla linearie ciliate, infra pedicellorum medium. 
Flores subpaniculati, longius pedicellati. Calyx tenuiter clava- 
tus, leviter umbilicatus, glaber, dentibus ovatis, acutis. Petala 
alba, cuneata, interdum leviter emarginata, unguibus exsertis, 
appendicibus minutis vel nullis. Capsula ovoidea. Semina 
tuberculata. 
Hab. Hawaiian Islands. 
ce. Capsula carpophorum equans, vel eo 1$-longior. 
a. Calyx striis anastomosantibus. 
383. S. pavcirnora, Salzm. ex DC. Prodr., i. p. 362 (1824) ; 
Moris, Fl. Sardon, i. p. 251, t. 16; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 224. 
