Lychnis,] xviii. caryophylle^. (Edgewortli & Hook, f.) 223 



Md, erect or recurved ; carpophore glabrous or tomentose, always very short. Seeds 

 very variable, yVm^j 5n. diam., with a narrow or broad wing. — I cannot distinguish 

 L. Fahonerij Kohr., even as a permanent variety ; it is characterized as having a more 

 open calyx in fruit. 



_^ XK, pallida, stems usually 2-fIowered, calyx very pale with green undefined veins. — 

 Western Tibet, Falconer^ Henderson, 



3. L. nlgrescens, Edgew.; stem simple glandular-pubescent l-flowered, 

 calyx inflated subglobose with broad purple-brown nerves, petals with a 

 snort retuse limb, carpophore |-i the length of the capsule brown-tomentose. 

 i|. tristis, Herb, Ind. Or, II. f, d* 1\ Melandryum macrorhizum, liohrb, in 

 luTK^a, xxxvi. 228, ?iot of Roijle. 



Alpine SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 11-16,000 ft., /. D. H. 

 . ^i"3ilarin many respects to L. apetala, but stem more leafy, calyx larger and more 

 inUjited, almost | in. diam., with broader more membranous-edged teeth, and a very 

 aiiierent carpophore. The nerves of the calyx are simple and free in all the specimens, 

 ana the seeds are like those of the rather narrow-winged forms of L. apttala. — Kohr- 

 ach IS certainly in error in describiner this as winerless-seeded, and in referring it to 

 ^^yy^ L, macrorhiza, b . 



m f"] ^^"^^^^y^^sis, Edgew. ; stem very slender elongate 1-3-flowered 

 ^mutely i^ubescent, leaves usually very slender, calyx broadly oblong Avitli 

 «ender black-Durple nerves, petals with a very small blade, carpophore very 



iOrO, seeds angular very small narrowly-winged. L. apctala, 



ok ^" ■"*— '^-purple nerves, petals with a very small blade, carpophore very 

 2^ort pubescent " " . . * ^ . , 



L. apetaia, var. gracilis, 



T- hinialayensis, BohrK 



al^'fr'^?i?i"'^^^X^» «lt- 11-14,000 ft., /. D. H, Western Tibet, Falconer ; Sassar, 







17,000 ft., T. r. 



(8-lfi^^\ 5^nly a slender form of Z. apetaia, but easily distinguished by its size 

 ^«ali ° ^^^^'Jerness, long narrow leaves, narrower smaller calyx \r\ in. long, with 

 Bmall^ "^T^ slender and free veins, which however sometimes unite in the teeth, and 

 seeds which are pale in Thomson^s specimens, black in Hooker's and Falconer's. 



Seeds turgid, reniform, wingless, granulate tubercled or echinulate. 



-S ^hor?'^"*'""'"""' 



-flowered 

 Royle ; Benth, in Royle III 80 {not of liohrb.) ; 



obf^;»f simple l-fiowered and leaves closely glandular-pubescent, leaves 

 nnitPd -^^^u^-^'^*^' calyx broadly oblong inflated pale, nerves famt free or 

 I ^^. ^^ t^e calyx-teeth, petals short, carpophore stout brown-tomentose. 

 • *uaaens, Jacq. m$s. 



^s^Unl^^^^^^^I^^^^ Himalaya, and Westeux Tibet; Kunawar, Boyle, Jacquemont; 

 WhL f'^^^' 15-16,000 ft., T. r. ; Topi dhunga, alt. Ib.imK Strach.ct WinterL 

 V ^e plant 4-6 in., resembling- L, apetahr, but leaves broader and more densely 



Pnbev**.. 1 " "^-^ resemUlinfr 



C short fh °^'^'' "^ '^"^-'^^"^- 



Wcallv ha V -^t'c^^ pale chestnui, aosonaeiy \Mai^ico.-5, uii.i.^.-v..j ^ -- --■- — 



y^.^^ J, oacfc rounded.— Eoyle's specimens are very imperfect, but 1 think referable to 



. Calf/x i-l in. Petals apparently deep purple ; 

 ut, absolutely wingless, minutely granulate concen- 



Vdrely ovate ""- t A 



or 



, „ simple 



'^ii L. Cachemeriana). 



fe J^I- brach 



I>ube 



branched; lea 



. brachypetala, Ilort. Berol ; stem 1-2 ft. slender lioary simple 

 l'>ioeappnf"/"^*^^^^^^'i' leaves very narrow grass-like glabrous or nuuutely 

 calyx nv^i^T^'"^ nodding opposite or in short few-flowered opposite cynieji, 

 ^ei^ aW ^1 ^ ^'^^'^ 10 dark or green simple free or connected nerves, petals 

 »uort pale 2-partite, caruopliore short glabrous or pubescent or 0, seeds 



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