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XVIII. CARYOPHYLLEJE. (Edg'ewortli & Hook, f.) [Silene, 



The following escapes from cultivation occur In Indian coHections. 



S, Armeria, L. in the Nilgherries and Canara (Plant. Hobenack. No. 615).—^. 

 nocflfora, L. (Wall. Cat. 624, from Herb. Wight., Avithout hAh\taX).--S. colorata, 

 Poiret ; (8. intrusa, W. & A. Prodr. 42 ; Wight 111. i. t. 26) ; ISilghiris and Garwtial. 



SUBGEN 



Behen. Petals imbricate in bud. 



inflated 



f 



- >-^ 



10- or 20-nerved, reticulately veined. 



1 



1, S. ixmata, ;:5mitk; glaucous, cymes many-nowerea, uidi^ts ^«^-— 

 calyx 20-nerved, petals deeply cloven. Wall. Cat. 623; Boiss. Fl. Cjm»- ^ 

 628. S. Wallichiana, Klotzsch iri Bot. Reu. Pr. Waldem. 139, t. 30. S. tucu- 

 balus, Wib. in Pohrb. Monog, jSUeiie, b4. Cucubalus Behen, Lmn. 



Tempkrate Himalaya, elev. 5-11,500 ft., from Nipal to the Indus. — Di^trib. 

 Temperate Asia, Europe, and N. Africa. . ^^ 



Perennial, 2-5 ft., erect or ascending, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 1-3 )B., o ^ 

 obovate or oblong, cauline sessile ; margins denticulate. Flower {-f in. diam., "^T^^P^^^ 

 white. Caltjx ovoid, base intruded, teeth broadly triangular. Petals white, witti iwu 

 gibbosities in the place of scales. Capsule globose, gynophore short. Seeds conca 

 front, convex on the base, tubercled iu lines. 



SUBGEN. II. 



Calyx 



proper. Petals contorted in sestivation. 

 with 10 anastomosing nerves, or 20, 30, or 60 simple nerves, not reticuiai y 

 veined. , 



Sect. I. Conosilene. C 

 from a broad base. — Annuals. 



lonical 



2. S. oonoidea, Zm7^.; glandular-pubescent, cauline leaves oblong 



or 



d from OrDE 



Western Himalaya ; from Kumaon to the Indus, alt. 1-8000 ft. ; 5,""^ *^*^"^ iVest- 

 to the Panjab, in the plains. West Tibet; Ladak, alt. 8-11,000 ft— Distkib. 



ward to the Atlantic ocean. 



Erect, 6-18 in., dichotomously branched. Leaves 2-4 In., r 

 line sometimes very narrow, sessile. Calyx 1 iu. inflated in fruit 

 entire or erose; claw auricled; scales 2. Capsule crustaceous, shining 

 leate, with 5 dorsal and as many lateral rows of tubercles. 



Sect. II. Scorpioideee. Calyx lO-nerved. — Annuals 



species). Flowers in unilateral racemes. 



adical spatbulate, cau 

 Petals pink, sniall, 



iieeds cocU- 



(the Indian 



3.* S. tallica, Linn.; annual, laxly pilose, glandular ^,^^^^'i^calyx- 



IVPS linonr-r^hioTior nr «nafhitlnfo n^TT^-^a, ci*r»-»r\lo +lnwprs unilateral, J* 



■.'1 



590. 



i 



(' 



ovoid. Boiss. FL Oneiit. i. o»a j.f 



Garwhal, Falconer; Caknatic, Wight:— a^ introduced weed.— Distkib. ^^ 

 cultivation. ' S-li iii* 



Erect, 8-18 in., clothed especially above with spreading hairs. ^^^^'^^J^ggjle. 

 Jiacemes manj -flowered. Flowers ^-^ in. long, secund, lower pedicelled, upp ^^^^g. 

 Cah/x ovoid, 10-striate, contracted above. Petals small, red (or white), em ^^^^i 

 scales 2. Filaments villous below. Seeds minute, striate-tuberculate, noi & 

 face flat with an ear-shaped depression. . ; 



3. S. apetala, WiUd. Sp. PL ii. 307 ; annual, lioary-pubescent,^ea^^^^ 

 leaves linear-oblong, flowers subracemose, calyx campanulate, ^^^® caps^® 



-i 



r'i 



i 



teeth short lanceolate .acute, margins scarious, petals iucluae*i 



globose, shortly stipitate. Boiss 



I. 596. 



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