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xviii. CARYOPHYLLE^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 



[Silene. 



Sect. IV. Otites, Cal]/x lO-nerved, cylindric or contracted towards 

 the base. Petals not auricled at the sides, with or without scales at the top 

 of the claw.— Pereniiials. Flowers in opposite panicled or racemed cymes. 



7. S. ralconeriana, Bentk in Royle III 79, t 20 ; perennial, stout, 

 erect, pubescent below, leaves linear-lanceolate serrulate-ciliate, flowers la 

 short uniform opposite cymes, calyx cylindric narrow, base intruded, teeta 

 sliort obtuse, petals very narrow spathulate, tip rounded or notched, cap- 

 sule ovoid longer than the gynophore. Rohrb. Monog. Silene^202. 



Western Himalaya, fnim Kumaoa to Kunawar, alt. 3-9000 feet, Eoyle, &c. 



Stems 1-2 ft., several from the woody stalk, simple or branched, closely pubescent 

 below. Leaves 14-2^ in., narrow, pubescent or ghibrous oa both surfaces. Ivflores- 

 cence 1-1 4 ft. long, hix, of opposite or whorled cymes or branched racemes. Flowers 

 erect or inclined; pedicels slender; bracts minute. CaJ^a; 4 i^^-i shghtly dilated up- 

 wards in flower, much so in fruit, membranous, nerves 10, green; teeth not margme 

 with white; base truncate. l\tals white, without scales or auricles. Capsules o\'o\ , 

 twice or thrice the length of the gynophore. Seeds minute, granulate, sides ilat o 

 convex, back channelled. 



a S. Griffithii, Boiss. FL Orient i. 637 ; perennial, robust, <Jensely 

 pubescent, tonientose or villous, leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, radical 

 petioled, flowers in opposite few-flowered cymes, calyx cylindric, teeth acut^, 

 base rounded or truncate, petals 2-partite, lobes 3-()-fid, scales 0, capsule 

 oblong, gynophore sliort. S. Webbiana, Wall. Cat 627. S. niultifida, iirf^^"'- 

 in Trans. Linn, Soc. xx. 34. Carpophora Hoffmeisteri, Klotzsck m Bot tcem ^ 

 Ft. TTaW. 139, t. 32. S- viscosa, P^rs. ; Benth. in Boyle III. 7Q. Melaudryuin 

 Griffithii, Bohrb. in Linna^a, xxxvi. 248 ; Alonog. :Silene, 232. S- viscosa 

 lusus 3, and /3 suaveolens, Kar, d; Kir. (6/>.), Bohrb. Monog. SilenCy 205. , 



Wehtekn Himalaya, from Garwhal to Cabul and Kishtwar, alt. 7-1 1,000 ft.— Dis- 

 TRiB. Afighanistan, Soongaria. . . ^j^ 



Ver}' variable in pubescence, from hoary to almost woolly. Stems 12-18 ^":' ^^^^- 

 or divided, very robust. Leaves 2^-4 by f-l^ in., radical spathulate-lanccolate, b- 

 rowed into a broad petiole ; cauline se^'^sile, bometimes cordate at the base, tuore or 

 pube-icent on both burfaces. Flowers in opposite irregularly 3-flowered cvmes, ^^ \ 

 pedicelhid. Calyx |-1 in., glandular, hardly dilated above except in frujt, teetn ^^ 

 margined with wliite, nerves 10, green. Pttals more or less laciniate, '^'^**^^"^®^?'!:„ja. 

 auricles. Petals white. Ca2)svle four times as long as the gynophore. beefisx^ ^ 

 ture, apparently like those of S, I'alconenana,—\cvy closely allied to S. viscosa, i 

 •with which it is united by Beutbam and Eohrbach. - . • 



9. S. kunawarensis, Be^itL in Royle III 79 ; perennial, P^^^^ig^J^ 

 or quite glabrous, slender, leaves narrow-spathulate or lanceohate,no\\er 

 opposite distant pairs or cymes, pedicels slender, calyx glabrous cyi"^ 

 or subclavate, base intruded, teeth short obtuse with scanous uuir^ » 

 petals deeply 2-fid, scales oblong, capsule ovoid twice as long as tlie gj 

 phore. Oft 



Western Himalaya, in the Tibetan regions of Kunawar and Piti, alt. 10,00 -i 

 Boylp, Jacquemont, &c. . ]\j " 



Branches tufted from a prostrate stock ; flowering ones slender, 6-12 in., ^ - ^.^^ 

 dabrous above. Leaves 1-1 J in., very narrow, minutely pubescent on both s .. 



Flowers raiber few and scattered, nodding, pedicels slendt-r, cquaihng tne ^^j|.^^ 

 Calyx l-^ in., membranous, quite glabrous or the teeth pubescent, clavate \ ^^^^ 

 10-nerved. Petals wiih 2 linear-oblong scales and no auricles. Cajjsule pale. , 

 dorsally channelled, sides nearly flat, hardly tuberded. . -i 



xao. S. Webbiana, Wall. Cat. 627; tall, slender, minutely PJ^^^;:;;^ 

 cauline leaves broadly ovate-cordate amplexicaul acuminate ^"^'^ 



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