Silene,] 



XVIII. CARYOPHYLLEJE. (Edgewortli & Hook, f.) 



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Panjab ; Peshawur, Vicary, Stewart. — Distkib. Westwards to Spain. 

 ^ Stem 6-24 in., simple or branched. Leaves 1-1 4 in., aouniinate, ciliolate. CijmeH 

 irregular, loosely racemose; peduncles exceeding the calyx; bracts acute. Calyx 

 t-j in., with broad green hairy nerves; teeth short. Petals 0, or minute, spathulate, 

 bnght red. Seeds flat, channelled, with a double corrugated margin. 



Sect. III. Auricularla. Calyx^ 10-nerved, contracted towards the 

 base. Petals with the claw toothed or anricled on both sides. — Perennials. 

 J lowers solitary or in few-flowered elongate panicled cymes. 



4. S. moorcroftiana. Wall Cat, 626; perennial, finely pubescent, 

 cauhne leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, flowers 1-3 terminal or subter- 

 minal, calyx tubular-clavate viscid, base intruded, teeth short obtuse with 

 scanous margins, capsule ovoid shorter than the gynophore, Benth, in 

 ^oyle III 79 ; Rohrh. Monog. Sitene, 129. 



_ Western Himalaya, alt. 10-13,000 ft.; from Garwhal to Kashmir. Western 

 liBET, alt. 9-16,000 ft.— DisTRiB. Aff-hanistan. 



oteim many from a woody stock, densely tufted ; flowering branches erect, 6-18 in., 

 siemler, simple or dichotomous at the top. Eadicalleaves spathnlate-lanceolate, acute; 

 canhne shorter, acuminate acute or obtuse. Flowers erect. Calyx 1-1| in., slender 

 tT ?^ r °^^^^'^ ' nerves 10, dark. Petals exserted, claw auricled with a long acute 

 «*oth; hmb 2-paitite, segments ligulate, dirty red or white, involute when withering ;, 

 ct \ ^°^'- Capsvle with the gynophore as long as itself. Seeds compressed, not 



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

 ; Y^- ^- ^j^ll^r, more slender, 2-3-flowered.— Tibet. 



^K. 2. dwarf, leaves linear, pedicels longer than the bracts. 



^f'.S* arenosa, C. Koch, in Linncea, xv. 711 ; annual, slender, glaucous, 

 T^scid above, leaves narrow, margins revolute, flowers in sparse mucli- 

 ^vancatmg cymes, calyx clavate, base intruded, teeth lanceolate-cihate, 

 ^psule oblong equalling the gynophore. S. leyseroides and S. salsa, Boiss. 



fl' Orient, i. 603. ^ ^^ ^ 



Western Panjab, common at Peshawur, Attock, &c. Vicary, Stewart.—DisTnis. 

 A^han.stan, Persia, Armenia. 

 *^ery slende 



above.' 



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'ler, excessively branched from the base, rainutelj pubescent, glandular 



or m r .""^^ shorter than the internodes, f-14 in., rigid, acuminate. Flowers erect 



inclined ; pedicels i-l in., capillary. Cah.v 4-^ in , slender, 10-ribbed ; teeth with 



scales 9 "^'^'■f"^- -P^fah with an oblong 2 -fid blade, lobes linear, claw auncled; 



^, small, lanceolate.— Flowers open at night. 



lint' ^' *?^«*s, Willd.; perennial, glabrous or viscid, leaves narrow 

 ron?^ V lanceolate, flowers in short racemes, calyx campanulate, base 

 svT . "^^ ^^J'Uf'cate, teeth obtuse, petals 2-partite auricled, capsule oboug, 

 synophore short. Jiohrb. Monog. Slleue, 186. S. graminifolia, 6>«/i. t» 

 Pr'iv?.- ^- 368, not of Ledeb. S. Gul.-Waldemarii, Klotzsch Bot Km. 

 ll'dlr^: ^40, t. 31. S. repens, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 614 (1 ot Patnn) : 

 T- ^^- ^^. lioss. t. 425. S. ama^na, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1 {not of ed. 2). 



^m'^r'T "'"^'^AYA, alt. 8-12,000 ft., from Kunawar to Kashmir, Jacquemont. 

 ***m ''^'^' -'''"^cojier.—DiaTKiB. Northern and Arctic Asia. , , , 



"" niany from the root, erect or ascending, 4-18 in., slender, simple, naked when 

 "■'«« 1-3 in., acute or acuminate, often ciliate, flat, radical slightly dilated 

 J'lov^ers often whoikd, sometimes secimd, inclined or nodding; ped'cela 



-f"=«u,r,<r * D^ '*''"'■'• whorled, subulate. Cabjx ^-4 in., membranons, 10-nerveC 



twice th I "^ dirty.yellow or brown ; scales short, oblong ; claw ciliate. 

 ^'ibercleT ^^*^ ^^ ^^^ gynophore. Seeds with 5 dorsal and as many lateral 



^n^to£^^^^^!^' Turcz. FI. B.ic. Dah. i. 207 (sp.), densely pubescent, leaves more 

 .^ous not ciliate. Uhu\, J(eschke. ... 



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