Arenar. 



XVIII. CARYOPHYLE^. (Edg'ewortli & Hook. f. ) 231; 



; 



pedicels short pubescent with several pairs of ovate pungent bracts, sepals 

 orbicular-(>blong pahnately veined rather 'shorter than the orbicular-uvate 



petals. 

 Prod 



Cherleria graudifiora, Bon 



Alpine region ofthe Nipat. Himalaya, at Gosain-than, WalUch. 



i^orming small compact hemispherical tufts; roots long, fusiform. Stems 1-2 in. 

 ^ *^^^«3m., rigid, base ciliate. Flowers ^ in. diam., peduncle about as long, with 



-^ pairs of concave bracts. Cuh/x rounded at the base; sepals membranous, mar- 

 ann r^^^' i'"* erose. Petals retuse. Filaments very rigid, subulate, cohering into an 

 tlia th * *^^^^ ^^^*^' O^-ar^ spherical ; styles 2-3, short. Ca_psule much shorter 



whi h ^^V^^^^ niembranous, 6-vaIvcd. — Don describes the flowers as rose-coloured, 

 fin^ *k^^ cannot affirm, and the stitrmas as capitate, which is not the case, nor do we 

 ^^ cai^ule to be 3-celled, as Don sajs it is. 



tliet "b '• ^^."^^^^sima, Wall Cat 640 ; densely tufted, stems clothed with 

 •^a^e t! ^^^^^^"^ leaf-bases, leaves recurved subulate-lanceolate from a narrow 

 ^pungent concave nerveless keeled below, margin quite sm(»oth, flowers 



ba 



axill 



ovat^i ^? .^ shortly pedicelled, bracts elliptic concave miicronate, sepals 

 Ohtrl • • ''' /""S ^s t^ie very narrow petals. Fenzl in Mas. Wie?i. I 60, t. 7. 

 ^i^erlena jumperina, Bon Prodr. 214 



Alpme ? region of tlie Nipal Himalaya, Gosain-tban, Wallich. 



.f„ • ■? p'"Sl compact tufts; roots long, woody. Stems crowded, 3-4 in., densely 



1. fragile. _ Leaves ^-i in., almost defle.xed, shining. Flowers very saiall. 



'^*^"'6. iV iu- long. Petals iinear-spathulate. CaiJSule globose. 



orobknaT." ^.^^'^alia. Lax or tufted, usually perennial. Z^aws ovate 

 tonsDici ' *^''^^' "^^^^^ subulate. Flmers cyinose or solitary. Diilc usually 

 i^ ^uuus. Capswife 6-valved. ^SeecZs numerous, rarely few. 



Cymes few- or many- rarely \-jlowered. 



sivel'v 1^1 ^^py^^^^oliai ^""^-Z annual, stem pubescent all round exces- 

 ^nitiinat^T ' ^^^"ches decumbent or suberect, leaves subsessile ovate 

 rihbpfl ^, , ^~3-uerved ciliate, cymes many-flowered, bracts leafy, sepals 3-5- 

 ^nW^fiT/}"^- ^^^^^■Fl.Ormit.\.'-A;Wall.(Jat.%Zl. A. Wallicliiana, 

 "^« t« Wall. Cat. G38. 



;, ^CBTROPI 



T Pak 



• ^%'banistan. Temp. Europe and Asia. 



D 



■opiCAL and TEMPEK^iTE IIiMALAYA, from Nipal to Kashmir; Eohilkukd and 

 A-J-?"- .^-1^000 ft.; WEsttKx Tibet, alt. 11-13,000 ft., T. Thomson.— 



■ r 



ST' *' 



•^^'uf n?f ®-?®*''^^'^sis, Wight i; Am. Prodr. 43 ; annual, stem pubes- 

 ^%tic or f^ "^"^^ branched, branches decumbent, leaves subsessile 

 ^^"y-flowprm^^^ "^*"s« "r niucronulate 1-nerved ciliate, cymes few- or 

 " ^RTH\v ^*^*^ ^^*^^' ^^P^^^ *^^**^^ ^^"^^ 1 -nerved, nerve pubescent. 



V""*' Mrr /J"!'^^-^^^' alt- 5-10,000 ft., from Jamu to Kashmir, Jacquemont, &c. 

 I ^T siniil ' / ^^ ' ^°- 



r '^O'etimes „i ^- '^''P'M'^lia, but of laxer habit, leaves more elliptic often petio- 

 5^ 'ess tXr J7*,**'' •^••'^"chcs chiefly hairy on one side, sepals usiia ly broader and 

 r^"l>e the S '^' ^"^^ ^^^^^ character, are far from satisfactory.- Wight and Arnott 

 "^les a3 varying fr**^ ^"^*''' "^^^^ ^^« sepals, which is not a constant character, and the 



'i°g from 24. 





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