Dknthi^,] XVIII. caryophylle^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 215 



; tt Surface of petals bearded or pubescent 



7- p. Seg'uieri, Fill. ; Boiss. FL Orieiit i. 504 ; leaves broad, flowers 

 usually faacicled, bracts 4-6 \-% the length of the calyx, with leafy points. 



Western Tibet, Ladak, Stewart, — Djstrib. Siberia, Caucasus, Greece- 

 -Jj^ew g-10 in., leafy, erect, simple or paniculately branched. Leaves strict, linear, 

 obscurely 5-nerved. Flowers usually surrounded 'with leafy bracts below the 4-6 

 orate abruptly cuspidate ones, which are themselves often tipped with an herbaceous 

 point. Caljjx teeth mucroiiate. Petals rosy, blade obovate acutely toothed. 



** Petals fimbriate. 



ft V ^^^"■i**^^, Bieberst. ; Boiss. Fl OHeid. i. 495 ; rigid, leaves 

 rather broad subacute obscurely serrulate, bracts 6-8 short broad-ovate 

 ' acute, calyx |-i in,, petals fimbriate for ^ the length of the blade. 



Western Tibet pFaZconer. —Distrib. N. Persia, Caucasus. 

 ^mck stout, woody, often elongate, much branched and suffruticose ; stems many, 

 ™ct, erect, 6-10 in., 1-flowered. Leaves %~-\\ in., rigid, erect. Bracts \ the length 



!-i\ /^J^^» sometimes cuspidate. Calfjx-teeth long, lanceolate, pungent. 

 ^ti^^ fadmg into lilac or pink. 



acts 4-6 ovate acuminate or Lne i- 

 nate for ^ the length of the blade. 



Petals 



serrulate 



7 19 AAA^^ Himalaya, from Kunawar to Kishtwar, and in Piti and Zanskar, alt. 



oft?r^^^ ?*"^5l^^r to D.fimhriatus, and probably a variety of that plant, with the bracts 

 wh;/k^^ ^'J''^'' ^"^ varjing exceedingly in length, from \-k the length of ^he calj'x, 



ti.'T\ '*'""^^^ 4' ^"d never % of an inch.^ 



Va o X^^"^^^ rather lax ovate suddenly cuspidate, 

 caul; o • *^ "^^^^^ ^ foliaceous point |-| the length of the calyx, leaves dark green, 



»»ne 6m,^ petals les^ deeply cut. Habit of D. deltoides.— Kishtwar. 

 r 1 tr f • ^ncertus, Jacquem. Herb, (sp.) ; bracts 4 rarely 6 lax ovate acuminate 

 3 » ne length of the.calyx, petals not so deeply cut.— Kunawar. 



lona' ^' ***•»»'*«». Smith; Boiss.Fl. Orient, i. 496; bracts 4-8 lanceolate 

 to tl ^ h^"""^^^' ^^alyxl-liin., teeth loug lanceolate, petals fimbnate nearly 



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xiBET^","' ^'^J^b; Salt Kange, Fle?nmff, &c.; Peshawur, Vicary &c. Western 



Snff .r^'"*^''-— DiSTKiB. Beluchistan, Turkestan, and westward to the Levant. 

 caaHno "^f ^^^"^; branches rigid, 8-18 in., few flowered. Leaves ng.d, acute, 

 cuspidate'" i^ shorter than the joints. Bracts i-4 the length of the calyx, acute or 



®- -fttals white, sweet-scented, segments capillary. 



both ■,?"'^f "•'' ^^"ii-. Js enumerated by Royie, together with Z>. caucasicus, Sims, but 

 ■^'1 are unknown to us as Indian plants. 





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Annual 



2. TUNICA, Scopoli 



with 



or uiTr. ^'' ?«^«°nial slender herbs, (7a^ya; tubula., ^ 



ent?p r* imbricate bracts. Fetak 5, clawed, graduaUy widening into the 



Sfn.mpnji 10. 7(f>r iiJi S m all. 



2 ov„r "^^'•ginate limb. 



^d^ ^f ^ numerous. Cawsti/^ oblong, dehiscing Dv 4 leetu, uiauj-o^cv^.v.. 



"^Of discoid or orhinnln^. r.«Tfat^ . pmhrvn straiffht— DiSTKlB. About 10 



4 teeth, many-seeded. 



South 



West Asiatic 



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