Tas. 7649, 
SILENE Forrvunet. 
Native of China and Formosa. 
Nat, Ord. Canyornytiace2.—Tribe Smrevex. 
Genus Sitenz, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 147.) 
oblanceolatis subacutis acuminatisve, basi angustatis ciliolatis v. in 
v. ad apices ramorum ternis breviter pedicellatis, 
bibracteolatis, 
Tine 1j-pollicari angusto cylindraceo striato 
basi ‘Satie inflato, dentibus parvis erectis 
- ovatis albo-marginatis et ciliolatis, petalis albis v. roseis, w 
ungue supra 
medium dentata, lamina flabelliformi } poll. pee bifida Manes oft 
lacinia lineari quasi auriculata, lobis multifidis, antheris brevibus exsertis, _ 
gynophoro elongato capsula oblonga bis longiore, capsule dentibus recurvis, 
seminibus tuberculatis dorso canaliculatis ventne planis. 
S. Fortunei, Vis. Ind. Sem. Hort. Patav. (1847), ex Linnza, vol. xxiv. (1851) 
p. 181. Rohkrb. Monogr. Silene, p. 222. Mazim. Fl. As. Or. Fragm., p. 6. 
Franch. Pl. David. pars i. p. 47. Forbes et Hemsl. in Jowrn. Linn. Soe. 
vol. xxiii. (1886) p. 65. Williams in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxxii. (1896) 
p- 178. 
8. fissipetala, Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. vol. xvii. (1854) pars II. p. 371. 
?S. sinensis, Hook, ex Bosse, Handb. Blumengart. Ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 371,em 
Williams l.c. 
PS. chinensis, Hook, er Rossi, 1. c. Ed. 3, vol. iii. p. 445. 
Lychnis Fortunei, Hort. 
Silene Fortunei appears to be a common plant in 
China, where it was first found by Fortune. It also occurs _ 
in the Island of Formosa, on sandy downs near Tamsing. 
One of its nearest allies in the great genus Silene (numbering 
390 species in Mr. Williams’ ‘encsland monograph in the 
Linnean Journal) is the West European 8. italica, a denizen 
of some southern English counties. With regard to the 
authority ‘‘ Hook.” given by Bosse for his S. sinensis or 
_ chinensis, Mr. Williams has suggested to me that it is 
__ possibly an error for Hort. It is a garden name not 
_ Introduced into the Index Kewensis. 
The plant here figured was raised from seeds collected in 
Arrit Ist, 1899. 
