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236 XVIII. CARYOPHYLLEiE. (Ed^ewoftli & Ilook. f.) [Aremm. 



very strict. Leaves i-li*in. in distant pairs, or ppunonsly wliorled, suLaciite, thick, 

 opaque, 1-nerveJ, acute, margins somewhat recurved. Cijiiies very lax, sti-ict, slender, 

 branches and pedicels very lone ; bracts and bracteoles small. Flowers \ in. aiam., 

 erect. Cafi/r rounded and not hardened at the base ; sepals quite glabrous, obscuiely 

 l-nerved. Styles 3, slender. Cajjsule subglabrous, 3-valved. Seeds striolate, much 

 ^impressed, pale red-brown. 



2. A. Keyeri 



(Alsine) ; annual. 



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dichotoraous, clothed with spreading glandular hairs, leaves suberect 

 late 7-nerved, pedicels short, sepals rigid subulate-lanceolate strongly n 



erved, 



petals very shurt, seeds small granulate. 



Paxjab, near Pesha^Tir, Vicaryj Stewart. — Uistrib. Affghanistan, and westward to 

 Syria and A^ia Minor, 



A pmall riirid erect annual, 4-6 in. Stems cylindric. Leaves i-h_ in., rnore or 

 recurved. Calyx ^ in. loiifc; base rounded or subacute; sepals erect, rigid, gj"^^*^' 

 " ■ ' ■ " " ■ * ' white. 



slightly recurved, punirent, outer 5-, inner S-nerved, nerves and margiuB white, -p^^ 

 ovate-nblong. Stamem sometimes 6 and 7. Styles 3. Capsule oblong, much shorter 

 than the sepals, Svalved. Seeds red-brown, orbicular reniforni, compressed. 



3. A. foliosa, Royle mss. ; quite glabrous, loosely tufted, stems un^cji 

 branched, branches slender leafy, leaves very narrow linear subacute spreaa- 

 ing often flexuous 1-3-uerved, cymes long-peduncled subumbellate, bra^ 

 teoles short ovate, sepals ovate-lanceolate acuminate strongly 3-nevve 

 shorter than the entire petals, capsule ovoid rather longer than ^l^^.^^E^^ !i 

 valves recurved, seeds reniform dorsally granulate. Alsine Roylei, r^^'^ 



iv Herb. JJtntk. 



Westeun StiiALPiNE HiMALAYA, alt, 9-13,000 ft., from Garwhal to Kashmir, Boyle, 



Jacfpiemont^ 



Perennial, branched from the base ; 



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green 



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branches 2-6 in., loosely or <Jensejy kaj^- 



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rated at the base ; sepuls ^ in., coriaceous, pungent, nerves much raised, inner 

 Bcanous edges. Capsxle ^-v■.x\yc^]. Seeds small, pale Lrown.— Perhaps a torm oi ^^ 

 jvmperina, Fenzl (Boiss. Fl. Orieut. i. 677), a native of Persia and W. Asia. 



4. A. kashmirica, Edgew. ; glandular-pubescent rarely fla^"*^"!: 

 den.sely tufted, stems much branched, branches leafy, leaves narrowly iint^ 

 subulate acute spreading strongly 3-nerved, cymes peduncled subumDeiw , 

 bracteoles ovate-subulate strongly nerved, sepals ovate-lanceolate acumi" 

 strongly 3-nerved shorter than the entire petals, capsule ovoid rather long 



than the sepals, valves recurved. 



Westkrn TEMrERATE HiMALAYA, alt. 6-7000 ft., T. Thomson; 



>\ EXTERN Tibet, Falconer, 



; Lahid, Jaescll^f 



Very similar to A.foliosa, but usually gland ular-pvibescent throughout, leaves m 

 subulate and rigid, very strongly nerved, lateral nerves often marginal, a^d braci» ^^^ 

 ditterent; Howera smaller; pedicels often shorter than the sepals; petals loug^' » 

 capsule and seeds are similar. 



K Capsule with twice as many valves as there are styles. 



SremoponeaB. rerenninls, usually densely t^f^,^^.,£?at 

 crowded, subulate rigid setaceous or grass-like, ^"epals often hara^ui^ ^^, 



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 * Peduncles elongate. Flowers 



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