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DiantHus OrienTais. GrorcraNn Pink. 
Cla/s and Order. 
DeEcANDRIA DiGyNIA. 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal, cylindricus, 1-phyllus: bafi fquamatus. Pefala g un- 
guiculata. Cap/. cylindrica, 1-locularis, 
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 
DIANTHUS orientalis ; caule fuffruticofo, foliis fubulatis 
pungentibus: floralibus internodiis brevioribus, 
{quamis calycinis aréte imbricatis obovatis, 
tubo longiffimo acuto, petalis cuneiformibus 
incifis, 
DIANTHUS orientalis. Don. Cantab. 101. 
CARYOPHYLLUS orientalis fruticofus, tenuiflimo folio, 
flore laciniato. Tourn. Cor. 23 ? 
Re 
Descr. Stem fhrubby. Leaves rigid, linear, channelled, 
pungent, rough at the margin, growing in bunches at the ex- 
tremities of the barren branches. Flowering Stems lateral, 
very long and flender, 1—3-flowered, with from four to eight 
pair of {mall leaves oppofite, fubulate, adprefled to the ftem, 
three times fhorter than the internodes. Calycine Scales feveral, 
imbricate, ftriate, obovate, margined, preffed clofe to the tube, 
than which they are three or four times fhorter. Tuée cylin- 
rical, flender, five-toothed: teeth connivent. Petals five : 
law longer by one half than the limb. Limd wedge-fhaped, 
Jagged, twifted. Stamens after the pollen is difcharged re- 
rurved. Styles exferted, capillary, twifted. Scent agreeable 
but of little power, 2 fe 
This plant has great affinity with Diantuus juniperinus of 
Dr, Smiru, fully defgribed in the Tranfa€tions of the Linnean 
. Society, 
