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rounded at the base, quite free. Petals half as Ions: a^^ain as the sepals, 2-fid to the 

 middle. Filaments slender, hypop^-nous. Disk 0. Styles 3, slender ; ovules numerous, 

 Capsvle broadly ovoid, shorter than the sepals, 6-valved, .inserted by a rery narrow base. 

 Seed^ (unripe) apparently solitary, large, muricate. 



Sect. IV. Xiarbraea, St IliL 



iiito an obconic tube. 



less connate at the base 

 Stameyis 8-10, perigynous ; filaments linear or snbu- 



Ovarij 1-celled; styles 3, rarely 4. 



-Usually flaccid laxly 



■>ssile 



late, not suddenly dilated at the base. 



Capsule 4-6-valved ; valves entire. Seeds numerous. 



ca^spitose herbs. 



* More or less pubescent woolly or silky, 



12. S. lanata, HookJ.; stems slender decumbent glabrous below, 

 branches pedicels sepals and leaves beneath densely woolly, leaves 

 spreading and recurved linear-oblong, sepals small oblong acute, petals 

 minute, stamens 8, styles 3, capsule twice as long as the sepals. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 9-14,000 ft., m gravelly places, /. D, H. ^ 



Stems laxly tufted, very slender, 8-12 in., below cylindric and shining ;braTicne9 

 4-angled and leaves beneath clothed with snow-white soft wool. Leaves J-| m . 

 or subcordate at the base, opaque above, 1-nerved. narrowed to thep'n'nf, b"^ "!^5 ^ 

 acuminate, dull green. Cymes few-flowered, terminal. Flowers | in. diam.; P^"'^^ 

 rather longer than the leaves, erect in fruit, rarely deflexed. Sepals with narro 

 scarious margins. Petals very obscure, 2-fid or 2-partite, lobes slender. Capsule oDlong- 

 ovoid, 4-6-valved. Seeds brown, reniform, granulate. 



13. S. longrisslma, Wall Cat. 632 ; stems slender decumbent glabrous 

 below, branches pedicels and leaves softly silky, leaves sessile liuear-ooloio 

 or -lanceolate spreading or recurved, pedicels slender, sepals ^^^P ' 

 lanceolate equalling the 2- partite petals, stamens 10, capsule sh^^^^ ^f/? 

 tlie sepals 5-cleft. S. patens, Dmi Prodr. 215. S. Fenzliana and b. moa^'^,^ 

 Klotzsch in Bot. Reis. Pr. Waldem. p. 141, t. 29. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 8-12,000 ft., from Sikkim, /. i?. ff., to Sirmur, 

 Jacquemon t. ^^ 



Stems 6-18 in., much-branched, laxly tufted, cylindric below, 4-angled ^V^'^^'^J^^g 

 arts and leaves on both surfaces and peduncles clothed with long lax silk J bairs. ^ 



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-1^ in., sessile, acute, flat, opaque, l-nerved. Flotcers ^ in. diani., axillary or 



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Petals with rather broad Ke^ments. 



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minal few-flowered cymes; peduncle erect, J-1 in. ; bracts with scarious edges, j 

 in., glabrous, with broad scarious marjcrins. Petals with rather broad se^ 

 usually deeply 2-partite. Filaments slender. Capsule ovoid, 5-valyed. J^^V ^^jy^e 

 brown, minute, turgid, tubercled. — Klotzsch's L. Fenzlii is distinguished by la 

 deeply divided petals and by being less pubescent. 



14. S- saxatilis, Hamilt. in Wall Cat 634; 



shining, upper parts densely soft tomentuse, leaves subsessile ^'^^^^ -uLy^ 



stem long decumbent 

 , lenv e« subsessile ovate elij^^^ 

 or oblong rarely cordate acute tomentose on both surfaces, cymes a ^^^ 

 sepals tomentose exceeding the 2-partite petals, stamens 10, styi 

 capsules equalling the sepals. Bon Prodr. 215. . ^et 



Tkmperate Eastern and Central Himalaya; Nipal, WalHch; ^\^^^^'r^lrj^iv. 

 places, alt. 5-7000 ft., Griffith. Khasia Mts., alt. 5-6000 ft.. Simons, &c.— x^ ^ . , 

 Java, Siberia, Japan. and infl^' 



Stems 2-3 ft., laxly tufted, cylindric ; pubescence of the upper parts, leaves j^^^^^ 

 rescence close dense almost woolly, sometimes very thick and closely ^PP''^^®^ ' juncleSr 

 i-1 4 in., sessile or very shortly petioled, midrib faint. Cymes *^". ^^^"*J^'ji in., di^a- 

 n^ually from the forks, very slender, subumbellately branched, pedicels l-i* Q^ongf 

 ricating; bracts linear-subulate. Flowers J in. diam. Sepals almost ^^*^*J^' slender, 

 acute, margin very narrowly membranous. Petals 2-partite. ■^*. ^" i^a ye very ' 

 Capsule 5-valve3. Seeds almost black, tubercled.— Some Bhotan specimens a^, 



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