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XVIII. CARYOPHYLLE^. (Edgewortli & Hook, f.) [CerastMj' 



rerennial. Stems very slender, flaccicl, 1-2 ft. Leaves 1-1^ in., meniLmnotiB, not 

 Tiiargined, ciliate, obscurely petioled. Flowers few, in terminal dichotomous cymes ; 

 pedicels divaricate, tomentose. Sepals \ in., oblong lanceolate, aente, margins narrowly 

 scarious. Capsules ratber longer tban the sepals. — Tbere is a specimen marked as 

 Mariritian in Herb. Bentb., but^I su.spect it is Indian; it lias, bowever, ratber longer 

 petals. 



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Sect. III. Orthodon. Sfi/ks 5. Valves of the capsule straight or 

 slightly spreading ; margins revoiute or recurved, 



4. C. vulg-atum, Liv7i.; annual or perennial, tomentose or hairy, glan- 

 dular above, lower leaves spathulate, upper oblong ovate or lanceolate ob- 

 tuse or acute, petals equalling the calyx, rarely or larger, capsules niucD 

 exceeding the calyx often curved Wight <h Am. Prodr. 43. . -' 



Tbroughout tbe temperate and subalpine regions of India and Ceylon, ascending to 

 15,000 ft. in Sikkim and WcKtern Tibet.— Distiub. Temperate N. Europe and Abia, 

 introduced into various countiies. j /^ i 



Stems 6-12 in., erect or suberect, simple or brancbed, stout or slender. tF'/» 

 various, few or many-flowered, open or crowded or subcapitate or subumbe la 

 Flvwers J-^ in. diam., sometimes apetalons or 5-androus. Capsule very vanawe i 

 lengtb, and seeds in amount of granulation or tuberculation. , ^ 



Var. 1. ghmerata, Tbuillier; annual, pubescence dense spreading, leaves obtuse, 

 cymes at first subcapitate, fruiting pedicels suberect sborter than the sepals, bracts 

 herbaceous, sepals acute densely bairy, margins narrowly membranous. 



Var. 2. trivial is j Uixik ] annual or perennial, cymes usually open 

 lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate acute, pubescence shorter less spreadia 

 herbaceous, sepals lanceolate, margin narrowly membranous. . • ^^j 



Var. 3. grandijlora, Don Prodr. 216 (sp.) ; annual, flaccid, stems 6-10 j"'' '^jpy 

 leaves obovate-spathulate, upper oblong, cymes open, bracts herbaceous, pedic^s*** en » 

 petals twice as long as the calyx.— C. napalense, WaU. Cat. 628. Temperate Himaia}»» 

 alt. 6-10,000 ft. ' -i^ 



?Var. 4. tihetlca; dwarf, densely tufted, leaves oblong or olIipHc, cymes^ ^ 

 flowered, bracts all herbaceous, flowers as in var. 3. granJiflora. — Sasear pass 

 16-17,000 ft., T. Thomson; Ladak, Stewart. Perhaps a new species, but tbe s 

 are very few. 



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? Vah. 5. wemhranaceaj Jacq. mss. (sp.) : stem slender erect, leaves oblong- , 

 late acute, cymes faw-flowered, bracts witli broad scarious ed^ges, P^^^^*;!^^""!"^^ Hookii>- 



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larger than th^ broadly fccarious-edged coloured sepals.— Kuna war, between ^^ ^^^ 

 ghat and DouhWng, Jacqueiuont, — Perhaps a ditfereut species or a small sta e . 

 following, but we have onlv 2 stems. v • 



5. C. ThomsonI, Tlookf,; clothed with spreading g^^'^^^^^^f^^S 

 stems slender erect, leaves all linear-oblong subacute cyuies ^^'^^ genal^ 

 bracts with narrow scarious edges, pedicels slender, flowers harg ' ^j^^ 



ceolate subacute coloured below the scarious tips, mucn 

 than the broadly -obovate petals. 



Temperate Western Himalaya; Kishtwar, alt. 11-12,000 ft., i- ^ ., ^ 

 Kumaon, alt. 10,000 ft., SlracL ti Wint.; Lalml, JaescJde. . ^^^^ pj iin- , 



We were at first disposed to regard this as the C. gravdJJlorum, Don, occ ^^ ^^^^ i 

 size of the flower: but that plant having broadly obovate lower leaves n^ ^^^^ 

 Wallich's C. napalense (a var. oi (riviale), which baa further much sn^f^*'^^' copi"«^'^ 

 a very different habit from this. Stems 6-12 in., quite erect,^ rather siender^^j^ 

 hairy, brancbed at the very base only. -Leaves f-lj in., straight, the very ^^^^ ^^^ 

 withering and more obovate. Ctjmes Buhumbellate. Flowers ^-f ij^- ^^,^^'1 

 petals. Fruit unknown. 



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