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22. A. Benthami, Edgew,; tall, slender, flaccid, glandular-pilose, mucli 

 branched, leaves sessile ovate acute hairy on both surfaces, cymes few- or 

 many-flowered, pedicels slender divaricate, sepals oblong- or linear-lanceo- 

 late, petals obovate-spathulate lacerate, capsule 2-6-valved. Adenostemma 

 glandulosum, Benth. in WalL Cat. 645. 



Temperate Himalaya; Kumaon, BlinhwortJi; Slkkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft., /. D. B. 



Stems 2-3 ft. high, clothed with spreading jointed glandular hairs. Leaves |-Ii m-, 

 the lower petioled, midrib indistinct, nerves obsolete, margins ciliate. Cymes peduncled. 

 Flowers \ in. diam., nodding; pedicels slender, deflexed in fruit, ebracteate. Calyx ^oi 

 thickened at the base; sepals very glandular, erect and recurved, green with narrow 

 membranous miargins. Petals longer than the calyx, white. Disk obsolete. ^ FilamenU 

 slender, dilated below, but hardly connate. Styles usually 2, not eo capillary as iQ. 

 A. holosteoides. Capsule usually 4-valved, smaller than the calyx. Seeds few, with a 

 thick spongy opaque hardly tubercled testa. 



23. A. debilis, Ilook.f.; stems solitary or laxly tufted flaccid glan- 

 dular-pilose sparingly branched or simple, leaves sessile ellii^tic-ovate ob- 

 tuse hairy especially above, flowers solitary terminal or in few-flowered 

 cymes, pedicels divaricate, sepals linear-lanceolate petals obuvate, tip 

 erose. 



Alpine Sikkim Hima^laya; alt. 14-16,000 ft. J, D^ H. . 



Very like a small form of ^. Benthami, but smaller in all its parts ; leaves ™ore ob- 

 tuse ; flowers not \ in. diam. ; petals not lacerate aud broader, merely irregularly tw>t"^ 

 at the tip; filaments much shorter inserted on an evident thickened annular disk. 

 Small states come very near A. glanduligera, which however may at once be distiD- 

 guished by the large flower acute leaves and the petals. 



24. A. tenera, Edgew. ; glabrous or pubescent, stems filiform flaccid m-, 

 tricatelv branched, leaves long-petioled elliptic or ovate- or oblong-lanceolaie 

 acute, flowers small axillary, pedicels capillary, sepals ovate-oblong or lan- 

 ceolate acute half as long as the linear quite entire petals. Lepyrodiclis 

 tenera, Bous. FL Orient, i. 669. 



Wkstern Temperate Himalaya ; Kishtwar and Banahal, alt. 6-8000 ft., T. Tliom- 

 *ore.— DisTRiR. Affghanistan. t* 



A very slender intricately tafted nnnnal, with stems 2-3 ft. long. Leaves scattere , 

 membranonp, ^-f in., petiole often longer than the blade, capillary. Flowers "^"M 

 axillary, i~\ in. diam.; pedicels divaricate, ^-1 in. Sepals variable in form, ^^^^y allf 

 conniving in flower, then spreading, ciliate at the back. Petals ^^'*^» ^^ i^J. 

 dilated upwards. Filaments Yery slender, hardly united at tbe base, -^'^o^^^'gub^ 

 ra/?m/e c:lobose, smaller than the sepals, usually 4-valved and 4-8eeded. ^eeds ^^^ 

 gloho.se, with concentric series of acute tubercles.— In the Aflghan specimens ^"'^' Pf ^^j 

 appear lacerate, but it is exceedingly difficult to lay them out after being dried wu 

 rujjturiiig the apices. 



14. SAGZNA. Linn. 



Small annual or perennial herbs. Leaves subulate, connate at *he b » 

 stipules 0. Flowers solitary, small, axillary and terminal, pedicelled. ^l 

 4-5. Petals 4-5, entire era Stamens 4, 5, 8, 10, perigynous. uva^ 

 1 -celled; styles 4-5 (and valves of capsule) opposite the s^P^^^A.^triB^^ 

 numerous. Capsule 4-5-valved to the base. Seeds reniform.— A^i^^ 

 Temperate regions ; species 8. 



1. S. procumbens, Linn. ; perennial, stems many *^^*^^v PlJ^ani 



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