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XVIII. CARYOPHYLLE^. (Edf^'ewortli & Hook, f.) [Lychnis, 



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reniform dark granulate. Melandryum bracliypetalum, Fenzl m Led Fl 

 Eoss. L 326. Var. tibetanum, Rohrb. in Linncea^ xxxvi 232. Y 



Alpine Himalaya; from Sikkim, alt. 12-15,000 ft., /. D. H., to Kunawar, Jac(iue- 

 mont; and Western Tibet, alt. 10-15,000 ft., Sir, & Winterh., Thomson, &c..— Dis- 

 TvaB. Siberia, Dahnria, Mon;i'oHa. ^ ■ ' 



Stems strict, very rarely divided except at the base. T^eaves 2-5 in., rarely J id- 

 broad. Flowers often in distant pairs towards the top of the stem ; pedicel stnet 

 2" 

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■rted; claw glabrous or ciliate, obtusely auricled. Seeds minute. Capsule vn 

 Simple or 2-fid teeth. — The nerves of the calyx are sometimes united at the V?^' ^ 

 others free ; at times simple, and again the secondaries branch and unite with tne 

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7. 1-- multicaulis, Wall. Cat 622 ; stems 2-3 ft. strict laxly pubescenJ 

 above, leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous or puberulons margins scaberulous, 

 flowers very ,(ew in elongatd racemes nodding, calyx oblong-campanulate, 

 nerves green dr brown united in the teeth, petals short, limb minute tootnen, 

 carpophore short pubescent or 0, seeds reniform dark granulate. Benin, m 

 Royle III 80. Melandryum multicaule, Rohrk in Linncea^ xxxvi. 226. 



Temperate Himalaya; Nipal, Wallich ; Kumaon, 10-12,000 ft., Edgew.; Sikbm, 

 alt. 11,000 ft., J. D, II (flower rather larg^^, calyx green), , • 



A much taller plant thau L, hracliypetala, inhabiting lower levels, with sP^^^^fy'" 

 florescence, longer pedicelled fewer flowers and usually broader leaves; but P''*^"^/ 

 only a lowland form; also very near L, nutans, Royle. Wallich^s and ^^S^^^"^" 

 specimens have calyces J in. long, with purple nerves; the Sikkim ones have lar. 

 calyces, J in. lone:, with broader green nerves; in both the venation is very vana 

 Styles 3-5 and capsule 5-6- or 8-10-cleft. 



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8. i-. Cachemeriana, Roijle; Smth. in Royle III 80; stem robust 

 erect strict simple hoary, leaves from ovate to lanceolate scaberulous, now^^ 



Kashshr, Boj/hj &c. j^^^e, 



An erect rigid species, with strict rarely spreading cymes. Leaves J^^^'^^^p^^faU 



2-3 by 4-| in. Calya^ membran<>u«, " - - ' 



■white or pale, blade about ^ in. long, i^arpopnore auoui 5 a» luu^ "- . , 



—Probably only a form of L. indica, as regarded by Eohrbach, but the calyx-iout: , 



usually much more acute. 



rarely spreading cymes. Leaves very ^^^^ 

 f-l in. long, teetli acute or agminate j^_ 



Carpopliore about I as long as the 5-na y 



9. I.. Stewartii, Edgew. ; stem short, wiry, lioanr below P"^^! 

 above leafy, leaves very narrow linear spreading l-nerved, flowers ^p ^^gg 

 solitary in the upper leaf axils nodding, calyx oblong pubescent, ^^^ 

 green faint free or united, teeth rounded, petals obcordate ^"^ jj^rt. 

 short 2-partite white lin)b, carpophore densely woolly, styles 3 very . . 



Western Himalata; Upper Chenab and Chamba river, alt. 8-11,000 ft 



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puTjescent, with two linear bracts above the middle. Calyx \ in. ^?^\^^ M'V 



pubescent, teeth scarious, edges with long curled cilia, PetaU with tne 



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