Stellaria.] xviii. caryophylle^. (Edg-eworth & Hook, f.) 



239 



11. 



Linn. 



Herbs of various habit. Leaves various. Flowers in dichotomous cymes, 

 more rarely solitary and terminal, white. Fetals 5, rarely 4, 2-fid or 2-par- 

 tite or 0.^ Stamens 10, rarely 8, hypogynous or perigynous. Disk annular 

 or divided into glands. Otm^y 1- rarely 3-celled ; styles 3 or rarely 2-5 ; 

 ovules many, rarely few. Capsule ^hovty splitting to below the middle or 

 to the base into as many entire or 2-fid valves as there are styles. Seeds 

 compressed, tubercled granulate or nearly smooth ; embryo annular. — Dis- 

 'RTB. Species about 70, natives of all cold and temperate regions. 



Sect. I. Schizosteg-ium, Fend. Subscandent or decumbent herbs. 

 V^'^ry 3^celled. Capsule 1-2-seeded. 



J. S. crispata. Wall. Cat. 633 ; tall, glabrous, pubescent above, leaves 

 «rge sessile oblong or linear-oblong from a cordate base long-acuminate, 

 cages crisped, flowers small S. monosperma, Don Prodr. 215. 



Tehpf.uate Himalaya, alt. 6-10,000 ft, from Sikkira to Kashmir; Kuasia Mts., 



«'t. O-6000 a. 



. Root of fleshy fusiform fib 



^ire, nudes 



w'neath. 



often 



res. Stem 2-4 ft., 4-angIed, shining with a line of fine 

 hairy. Leaves 2-9 in., often broadest beyond the middle, pale 

 rather coriaceous, nerves very fiiiat, one iutramarginal, tips very slender, 

 a^gin scarcely thickened, more or less crisped. C^jmes much branched, pubescent, 

 Pe^iuncles and pedicels divaricate, v(;rv slender. Sepals ^ in., oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 



1 '^'^^^gi^ narrowly scariuus. Petals as loiier or twice as long as the sepals. Seeds 

 * or J, granulate. 



HP' f^' P^**l<5ulata, Edgeiv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 35 ; tall, glabrous or 

 Rm 11* f^^^^ petioled lanceolate or elliptic long-acuminate, flowers very 

 ^^ pubescent. IS. media, WigJd Cat. 145, not of Linn, 



STrrn ^^r^ Tempkkate Hjmalaya, alt. 7-11,000 ft. ; Sikkiin, /. D. H,; Kumaon to 

 }iT\'/^^ Edgeworth, &g. Kuasxa Mts., alt. 5000 ft., Griffith, &c. Nilguiki 



^^., Wight, &c. 



^ early glabrous or laxly pubescent throughout. Stem 2 ft. high and more, decum- 

 variabi' -^^^^^ ^®a'^» shining, with a line of hairs above. Leaves 14-5 m., very 

 margin /^ ^jj^pe, niembranous, long or shortly acuminate, nerves spreading, one intra- 

 Aeuf ^y^es glandular pubescent, much branched; peduncles and pedicels very 



shorter tF^'^'^T^'^^- ^^P^^ pubescent, oblong-lanceolate, acute, i-^ in. Petals notched, 

 loan the sepals. Capsule equalling the calyx. Seeds wrinkled. 



bmnfk i^'^y^arioides, Tlmaites Enum. 24; procumbent, rooting, gla- 

 ellinti ' gla^it^ular-pubescent above, leaves petioled orbicular or broadly 



^1 tic acute or apiculate, flowers small densely pubescent. 



EiLOK: Harpootelle nas« alt dono fi- Wnlh^^r ThwaJte^^^ 



i-l^in. diam., with a few 



01 



'^T Harpootelle pass, alt. 4000 ft.. Walker, Tlmaites, 

 ^'' Dder, flaccid, 4 angled ; branches erect. Leaves \ 



petals ^V^ in.; nerves "sprpading. Cymts with long slender spreading 



Stems 



scattered ha.ra . ..„,„„_-__. 



-..ne<,„ , - - thickened upwartk Pd<aZ« 2-fid, half as long 



micuiy^ \ ^'"^ S-'^^'^l- Capsule included, 1-seedcd.— Closely allied to S. 

 fesemhU >)''°'' probably a broad-leaved state of tbat plant, the foliage and liabit closely 

 tlie leaf! ^^'""'^^ cordifoUa, which may at once be distinguished by the nervation ol 



Stamens hypo- 

 5 2-fid valves, 



WnS -^^.^alachium, Fries. Sepals free to the base. 

 manySeed I usually 5. Ovartj 1-oelled. Capsule with 



'^^uum aS-' ^^^''f? ovate-cordate. 

 J^ acjuaticum, Fries : 



X-..- 



Cerastium aquaticum, 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, i 731. 



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