Stelkria.] xviii. caryophylleje. (Edg'eworth & Hook, f.) 



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petals equalling the 5 sepals,— Kumaon, alt. 12-13,000 ft., Str. S Wtnt {with S. d- W. 

 Ao. 6). 



Var. 5. pulvinata; forming dense globose or cushion-like masses, opaque or shining, 

 leaves densely imbricate ovate-subulate or the lower oblong and rounded at the tip 

 ■ usually ciliate, sepals 4-5 coriaceous.— Garwhal, at great elevations, 16-18,000 ft., 

 Str.& Wint; Western Tibet, T. Thomson; Sikkim, J.D.H. 

 0. Flowers cymose. 

 Var. 6. polyardlia ; tufts dense shining, stem stout, leaves \-\ in., ovate- or lanceo- 

 late-Hubulate ciliate or pubescent, cvrnes sessile many-flowered, sepals 5, petals minute. 

 -Kashmir, Royle; Sikkim, J .D. H. 



♦AR. 7. acicularis ; stems lax and leaves very shining, leaves erecto-patent ri^id 

 narrow subulate-lanceolate keeled, margins smooth, cymes peduncled lax niauy- 

 flowered, bracts large concave scarious, sepals 4-5, petals minute.— Sikkim, at Tungu, 

 ' alt. 12-14,000 ft. 



12. BRACHVSTEBIMA, Don. 



A diffuse subscandent branching herb. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 

 numerous, in axillary or terminal panicles. Sepals 5,subscarious. Petals 5^ 

 minute, narrow and quite entire. Stamens 10, 5 without anthers. Ovary 

 1-celled; styles 2; ovules 4. Cap-^i?//^ globose, depressed, 4- valved, 1 -seeded. 

 ^m reniform or globose, tuberculate. 



1- B. calyc 



, T^^!Jf ^^-^TE Central and Eastkkn Himalaya; Nipal, WalUch; Sikkim, alt. 



nl ' ^' ^- ^' ' Bhotan, Griffith ; Khasia Mrs., alt. 3000 ft. 



Vjlabrous Stems 6-8 ft., clambering amongst bushes, 4 angled, shining, brittle. 

 ^at'e« l|-3 in,^ petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous beneath, triple-nerved, mar- 

 ine obscurely crertulate. Cymes 3-6 in., pedicelled, terminating lateral branches 

 lai ^ 1 ^^ l^^acts linear; pedicels slender. Flowers ^-g in. diam. Sepals ollong- 

 : iinceolate. Petals, stamens and pistil all very small compared wilh the scaiious sepals. 



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13. AR^INARZA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial, often tufted herbs. Leaves broad or narrow. 

 r lowers white or pink, solitary or in dichotoinous cymes. Sej^ah 5. Petals 



.entire lacerate or retuse, never 2-fid or 2-partite, rarely 0. Slamens o, 

 l^?ngynous or subhypogynojis. Stamens 10, rarely 5, liypogynous or more 

 wten inserted on the perigynous lobed or annular disk. Ovary 1 -celled ; 

 tKp f 1 (rarely*2) ; ovnles usually many. Capsule short, rarely exceeding 

 r|,.^^P^ls, valves 2-G. Seeds compressed or turgid, smooth or tubercled. 



^''i'RiB. Species about 130, all natives of cold and temperate regions. 



-*• Capsule with as many valves (usually 3) as there are styles. 



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 base 



Alsine. Arinual or perennial herbs. Leaves in the Indian spe- 



"' mers small, cymose white. CaJyx not t^ii'^t^nprl at the 

 ds compressed, striate or granulate. 



1 *• ■^. trichotom 



J^anched branch 



_ ^„, }ioyle mss.; perennial erect, dichotomonsly 



np-,. ?.^r»»ches long strict spreading finely pubescent, leaves glabrous 

 cLr/rL "near-oblong from a broad sessile base, cymes long peduncled tri- 

 the S?"\ P^^^^^ls slender, bracts scarious, petals equalling or exceeding 

 presE '^b^ong acute broadly-margined sepals, seeds 3-5 orbicular com- 



*cte!^* Temperate Himalaya; Kunawar, alt. 8-10,000 ft., Jacquemont, BoyU, 

 ' ■y glabrous, 1-1^ ft. Sterna ratber stout and flexuous at the base ; branches terete, 



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