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'• Ilerts. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, sinuate-dentate, membranous. 

 Flowers small, -ss-liite, pedicelled, in terminal and lateral peduucled racemes, 

 finally lax; pedicels spreading, with minute subulate (or 0) bracts at their base. 

 Calyx-tube ovoid, scarcely produced above the ovary, limb bipartite. Petals 2, 

 oocordate, 2-lobed, epig^nous. Sta7nem 2, epigynous. Ovary inferior, 1-2- 

 celled ; style filiform, stigina capitate almost 2-lobed ; ovules attached to the 

 inner angle of the cells, solitary or rarely 2 superimposed. Fruit small, pyri- 

 form, subcoriaceous, indehiscent, 1-2-ceIled. Seeds 1 in each cell, ellipsoid.;;— 

 UiSTRiB. Species 2 or 3, in subarctic and cool temperate regions of the northern 

 ^^i^isphere^ extending southwards to the tropics on mountains. 



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I. C lutetiana, Linn, ; DC. Proth\ iii. 63; leaves ovate-lanceolate more 

 or less pubescent not pellucid, fruit 2-seeded narrowed at the base patent-de- 

 flexed shoYl'^f than its pedicel covered with long hooked hairs, Lamk. Ill, t. 

 16, fig. 1; i?^:sg, fP Onent, ii. 753, 0. repens, Wall. Cat, 6341. 



^Temperate Hjm^laya from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 7000-10,000 ft.; Wallich, 

 ^'(yor Maddc'/i, J,D. H., T. Thomson; examples few.— Distrib. The northern hemi- 

 sphere, extending south to near the tropic of Cancer. 



Sterna 1-2 ft., erect or decumbent at the base only, puberulous or pubescent. 

 leaves 2 by 1-1^ in., long-petioled, rounded or narrowed at the base. Bracts 0. 

 petals white or pinkish. Fruit ^ in., obovoid^ the hooked hairs usually longer than 

 ^df the width of the fruit. — The C, repens of Wallich agrees closely with the 

 •'I'Uropean common type ; the stem is decumbent for a short space at the base only. 



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2, C. cordata, Hoj/le Hi. t. 43; leaves ovate-lanceolate cordate at the 

 hase ihore or less pubescent not pellucid, fruit 2-seeded broad-elliptic patent- 

 deflexed little longer than broad froui a broad rounded unequal base covered 

 ^th long hooked hairs, not shorter than its pedicel. 



. WESTERN HntALAYA; Royle ; alt. 7000-8000 ft. ; 71 Thomson. Kashmir, C, B. 

 tkrke, Simla, Jacquemont; Dalhousie, Chumba, alt. 7000-9000 ft. plentiful, C, B. 

 tlarke. — Distrib. Mandshuria, Japan. 



^';St€ms 1-2 ft., stouter and more hairy than of J?. lutetiana, erect. Leaves ^ by 

 ^ ^n., sometimes larger ; petiole often 1^ in. Brads 0. Petals yellow (ex Eoyle) 

 ^nd appear so in the dried examples. i^r^zY scarcely ^ in., nearly or quite as much 

 \^^} ^^^ two carpels at the base generally descending unequally on the pedicel. 



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/I^8. C. alpina, Linnr, DC. Prodr,\\l 03; leaves ovate glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent often pellucid, fruit 1-seeded nari'owed at the base shorter than its 

 pedicel, glabrous or not densely hairy. Lai^ih. Ill, t. 16, fig. 2 ; Wight III. 

 ^' 101* J Boiss, FL Orient, ii, 753. 0. intermedia, Wall Cat. G342. 



Tempkratk Himalaya, from Kashmir .to Sikkim, alt 7000-11,000 ft., not rare. 

 ^HASTA Mts., alt. 4500-6000 ft. NiLGHiEisandPulney Mts.,alt. 7000 ft.— Distriw. 



/«e Temperate Northern hemisphere. 



, -fc^eet, 6-8 in., typically nearly glabrous. Leaves \ in., and al>out equally broad, 

 {*^^-petioled, rounded or cordate at the base, often deeply sinuate-toothed subangu- 

 ^% glabrous or pubescent on the nerves. Bracts minute, subulate, souu-times ob- 

 ^^^\ Petals yfhitB, ^ Fruit less ttian f in , obovoid, sometimes nearly glabrous. 



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^ Var. himalaica; stem taller 10-18 In., leaves much larger IJ m. more pubescent 

 "ot pellucid.-^ln the Hiirialflya only ; the type of Wallich's C. intenyirdla. This plant 

 nas only'Sge seed to the fruit and diffeirs only in tirivlal characters from C. alpine. 









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