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1. T. stricta, Bun^e ; Boiss. Fl. Orient i. 521 ; annual, erect, leaves 

 lineur-spathulate, margins scabrous, cauline linear, flowers subsohtary 

 ebracteate, calyx 5-ribbed. Ledeh. Ic, FL Ross, t, 5. ^ . 



Kashmir, Falconer, &c.— Djstrib. Soongam, Altai, Persia, Asia Minor. 



Glabrous, 12-18 in., branched from the base. Badical Zeai;(?s J-4 in ^, inany, short. 

 Cymes strict, and their branches slender quite erect. Flowers J in. long; pedtceis 

 often exceeding the glabrous turbinate culyx. Petals white, linear-oblong, entire.^ 

 /Seeds boat-shaped, wrinkled on the edges and keel. 



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3. ACANTKOPKirXiXiUME, C. A. Meyer. 



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solitary 



Cal^x tubular or turbinate, 5-tootbed or lobed, 5-15-nerved. Petals 5, ex- 

 serted, narrow, spathulate ; claw long, widening into tbe entire or ^y^^^^ 

 limb. Stamens 10. Disk^hori or produced into a short gynopbore. C/i-aTV 

 1-celled, 4-10-oYuled ; styles 2. Capside ovoid or oblong, mdehiscent or 

 with 4 small teeth, 1-2-seeded. Seeds snbreniform, laterally compressea. 

 hilum marginal; embryo annular,— Disteib. About 17 species; natives 

 Western and Central Asia, most numerous in Affghanistan. 



1. A. macrodon, Edgeio.; hoary, leaves spinous, flowers solitary, 

 bracts 4 linear with scarious margins. 



Wazariytan in the Punjab, Stewart. — Dlstbib. Affghanistan, Griffith' , 



^ A tufted excessively spinous herb, minutely pubescent. Leaves horizontal, ^--? ^^ 

 rigid with acerose tips, pale green, flat above, convex on the back, iV"^V '"• ^^^J^j 

 the base. Flowers rosy, f in. long, terminal; bracts squarrose, pungent, recurvi 

 reaching as high as the calyx-lobes. Calyx cylindric, hoary, lobes subulate-lanceoiai , 

 recurved, acerose, with very narrow scarious edges. Petals narrow. ' ;\:^ 



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Perennial or annual, often glaucous herbs, rarely shrubby. Z^am usual y 

 flat, very rarely subulate. Flowers in panicled cymes, rarely ^"^oh^^arv ni i 

 forks. Cali/x turbinate tubular or canipanulate, 5-tootlied or -Icbed, ^J^ 

 6 broad green nerves and membranous interspaces. Petals 5, claw ^^^J^^^ ^ 

 limb entire or notched, without (rarely with) a scale. Di-'^k small, u^ J^ 

 1-celled; styles 2 (rarely 3); ovules many. Capsule 4-y3Ayed to or oe 

 the middle, few- or many-seeded. Seeds subreniform, hilum lateral; emu j 

 annular.— DiSTKiB. Species abont 50, European and W. Asiatic. 



Sect. I, Pseudacanthophyllum. Undershrubs. Leaves v^r) gent or 

 acerose. Calyx ovoid or oblung-campanulate. , 



1. G. Ftewartll, Thorns. ; puberulous, leaves i in. subulate acerose, 

 convex beneath, flowers subcapitate, bracts equalling the calyx-tube. ^ 



Wazaristan in the Punjab, alt. 3-4000 ft., Stewart, — Distrib. Affg^'^^^®^ 

 (Turuak valley). ^ at)ore, 



A small green densely tufted spinous perennial. JjCaves spreading, |*^ ^^^,^.' 



points glabrous polished. Cymes on short peduncles, 8-15-flowered; bracts ^^^^ 



■ subulate. Cabjx^ in., ovoid, glabrous, 5-ribl)ed; teeth long, slentler, ^^^^^^^X^'^jiaceO, 



half as long again as the calyx ; blade pink, linear-oblong.— Closely allied to U. ^ , g| 



Boiss. (of Affghanistan), but much smaller, with crowded flowers, and glabrous ^*"J 



with longer subulate teeth. 



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