QHPsopUla.] XVIII. CARYOPHYLLE^. (Edg-cwortli & Hook, f.) 217 



Sect.il Heterochroa. Herbs* Leaves ^dX. Ca/^o; cainpanulate 5-fid. 



, 2. G. sedifolia, Kurz. in Flora, 1872, 285 ; perennial, tufted, hoary all 



^/^r> leaves linear obtuse, cymes capitate. G. Tibetica, H.f. & T. Herb. 

 Ina, Or, 



4. 



'' Western Tibet, Zanskar and Dras, alt. 9-13,000 ft., Thomson. 



■nootvery stout, woody, with very many short tufted pointed decumtent branches. 

 ^m pale. Leaves fascicled, 4 in., nerveless, rather thick, pruinose. Heads of cymes 

 tl*}l"r ^" ^l^^^o^ted branches 1-3 in. diam. ; bracts linear, obtu.se. Calyx ^V '^^^ 

 »>-"'t>ed, teeth obtuse, margins scarious; . Capsule not exceeding tlie calj^x. Seeds 



• 3. G. cerastioides, L>on Frodr. ^13; perennial, hoary-pubescent, 

 ^ranches many decumbent, leaves obovate-spathulate, cymes lax. Acosmia 

 ppestris, Benth. in Wall Cat. 644 ; Camh. in Jacq. Voy. Bot 26, t. 28. 

 /imseosia rupestris, Klotzsch in Bot Heis. Fr. Waldem. 138, t. 33 {styles 3). ] 



' Temperate Himalaya from Kashmir and Kunawar to Sikkim, alt. 6-12,000 ft. 



very variable in size; branches 4-10 in. Leaves i-2 by :^-| in., radical petioled, 



^uime sessile, all ciliate. Cymes usually lax, with leafy bracts. Flowers sessde or 



Inl!!^ 1 * '^ery variable in siz*>, J -^ in. diam. Calyx | in., canipanulate, pubescent; 



"oes obtuse, strongly ciliate with curved hairs. Fetals lilac, spathulate, S-nerv" 



'''V^es 2-3. JSeeds broad, black, tubercled. 



ed. 



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5. SAFONARXA 



Animal or perennial herbs. Leaves flat. Flowers in dicliotomous cymes. 

 ^yx more or less tubular, ovoid or oblong, 5-toothed, nerves obscure. 

 "<«•'' 5, clawed : limb entire or notched, with or without a ba^al scale. 



^misio. Dish 



Ovary 1 -celled, or 



""Pertectly 2-3-celIed ; styles 2, rarely 3 ; ovules many. Capsule ovoid or 



"wng, rarely subglobose, 4-toothed. Seeds reniform or subglobose. hilum 



^rginal ; embryo annular.— Distkib. Species about 30, chiefly Mediter- 



mn^A ^*°carla, Linn.; radical leaves oblong, cauline sessile, base 

 €ru<i i/^ cordate, calyx-teeth triangular margins scarious, ratals short 

 8 w V ^^- ^«^- 1503. !S. Vaccaria and oxyodonta, Boiss. FL Orient, i. 525. 

 J^- Pertohata, Moxb. Fl. Lnd. ii. 445. Gypsophila Vaccaria, W. <i' A. Prodr. 42. 



. A t^Jl*^^ 'fields througliout India, and in Tibet.- Distrib. A weed of cultivation _ 

 ii„k }-• '"owst, simple or sparingly branched perfectly glabrous annual, 12-24 in. 



now 



Wred CT* '~^ ^^ 3~* ^"•' ""^**^' <^''»"'i"^ linear-oblong. 

 »entnVnao • ''!"'«'■« erect; pedicels slender. Calyx i in., wun a oiuau 5.0^=.. 

 larse H u^"^ , '*• -^«'«^« '""sy, obovate. Capsule included, broadly ovoid. 



Se, globose, black, granulate. 



Cymfs coiynibose, many- 

 th 5 broad green nerves, 



Seed* 



6. SIXiENE, Linn. 



Annual 



the bJ, 1'^'^ perennial herbs, /'/ow^m solitary or cymose, often secund on 

 cUvatP ""^ ^^ ^^^ cyme. (7«Z^.« more or less inflated, ovoid campanulate 

 claw.L"'" tubular, 5-toothed or cleft, 10- rarely many-nerved Fe(a(s5; 

 SfaJnI\T:' ^"^^ e'itire bifid or laciuiaie, usually with two basal scales. 

 U^^^\^ usually adnate to the petals. Bisk usually produced into a 

 ^mI^'^"^^- ^""^-^ incompletely 3- (rarely 1-) celled ; styles 3 (rarely 5) ; 

 tubeSpa "^^[.^^8. ^"i^^"^^ 3-6-toothed or valved. Seeds remiorm, usually 

 tliiefl V ; 'f • ^^'^^^ marginal ; embryo annular.— Distkib. Species about 250, 

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