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flowers solitary, pedicels capillary deflexed in fruit, flowers very small, sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate acute, petals 0, stamens 5, styles 3, capsule cylindric twice 

 as long as the sepals. 



Interior of the Rikkim Himalaya, alt. 12-16,000 ft., J.B.H, R^estekn Tibet;. 

 Nubra, alt. 11-15.000 ft., T. Thomson. 



Stams 6 in. hiejb in Nubra specimens verj slender simple, stouter sborter ana more 

 tufted in the Sikkira ones. Leaves i-^ in., with thickened margin and tip, not niucro- 

 nate. Flowers J in. diara.. ; pe-Hcels 4-1 in.; bracts scarious. Calyx base obscure; 

 sepals green, strongly 3-nerved, with broad scarious margins. Filaments slemeT, 

 IStijles short. Capmle ^ in. long, straight, 5-valved. Seeds pale brown, distuictly 

 granulate.— Very near the Baikal 5. umlellat^, Turcz. (Led. ¥lor. Ross. i. 394), but 

 the bracts are not numerous and crowded, and the seeds are not perfectly smooth, oa 

 strongly granulate. 



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19. S. depauperata, Edgew. ; quite glabrous, stems slender flexuoiis 

 rod-brown, leaves spreading and recurved sessile oblong-lanceolate acute, 

 pedicels few axillary and terminal elongate curved wiry, flowers sm^' » 

 calyx with a broad turbinate base, sepals lanceolate acute petals 0, styles ^ 

 very short, cnpsule 6-valved, seeds few. 



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sepals i in., dark green with broad scarious, edges. Filaments linear. ^^^^^ \\\1 

 ovoid; styles 3, very sliort. Capsule shorter than the sepals. — The structure ot 

 flower approaches that of Sect. Adenonema. 



Sect. V. Adenonema, Bnmje. Sepals connate at the broad ba^, 

 Feta/s minute or 0, rarely equallinr; the sepals. Stamens 8-10, pengj'nous . 

 filaments dilated at the base. Disk glandular. Ovari/ l-ceUed ; s^y^^. ^ 

 Capmle 3-5-valved. Seeds 1 or few or many.— Densely tufted Aipi"" 

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slender and pedicels 



densely tufted, usually very shining, stems stout or ^icn^^^^ ^-^:~- ^ ^^^^ 

 densely pubescent or villous, branches si)arse or closely i^t>^^^^^^i.*?,uf^ 

 fascicled in axillary globose tufts, ovate or oblong or lanceolate-su 



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iH^cicieu ill axillary giooose i.uils, ovale or ODiong ur iuh^cv^^^'^y \j ^1^- 



acicular-pointed (rarely acute or obtuse) 1-nerved, margins thickeneag^ 

 brous or ciliate, flowers solitary or cyniose, sepals 4-5 ^^^^^^ \^^^q^^]1 

 petals usually very short 2-partite narrow, capsule shorter than the s p 

 seeds 2-8 opaque nearly smooth suborbicular. ^ . 



Alpink and RunALrixE Himalaya, in rocky and gravelly places, alt. U- ^j 

 (18,000 ft. in Sikkirn). ^ -p^j^ge, 



A very common and variable Alpine TTimalayan plant, allied to ^S". petr(Brt, x^^ 



but at once distinguished by its shorter shining loss rigid leaves, **"*^,^ |f^^ tbou^'i 

 cence.— We are quite unable to distinguish the following varieties specifically, 

 var. 4 is less connected by intermediates than the others, and may be differen . 

 a. Flowers solitary, 



Var. 1; tufts large lax shining 6-18 in. broad, leaves ^ in. usually 

 often in axillary tufts usually ovate-suhulate, sepals 5, petals minute. ^ 



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Var. 2. Edgeworthii; tufts lax shining, stems slender, leaves sparse ^^^""YaoD. 

 jng I in. subulate-lanceolate, petals minute. — S. decumbens, Edgew. Ic. i"nceol»t®" 



Yak. 3. minor; stems slender 2-4 in., leaves shining or not ^ in. ovate- or » ^,..._ 

 subulate often in axillary fascicles, sepals 4, petals minute. — Sikkim. *'qubuW^j 



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