CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM 77 



Hah. Kumania: near Brasov (formerly Kronstadt) and near Hani- 

 mersdorf (both in prov. of Transylvania). — Germany: near Inster- 

 burg in prov. of E. Prussia. 



This last locality is based on a poor specimen (without capsules) 

 in Herb. Kew. labelled " C. incanum " (Kuehii, 1895, ex herb. 

 Churchill), and agreeing well with Schur's description, and certainly 

 not with tliat of Ledebour. There are 8-5 flowers to each dichasium, 

 bent backwards at the top of the pedicels, the central one being 

 subtended by scarious bracts, and it is obviously a perennial plant 

 with leafy stems very tufted at the base. It has the characteristic 

 facies of C. arveiise. 



1G4. C. INDICUM Wight & Arn. Prodr. fl. Ind. Or. 43 (1834) ; 

 Wight, Illustr. i. t. 26 (1840); Hooker f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 227; 

 Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, 85 (1893); Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras, Gl (Nov. 

 1915). 



Kal). Madras Presidency: Nilgiri and Anamalai Hills, m the 

 Utakamand district, and Palni Hills in the Madura district, Ce^don. 

 Ascends to 2000 metres. 



Among Asiatic species seems nearest to the Mesopotamian C. ma- 

 crocarpum Boiss. & Haussk. It was overlooked in Grenier's Mono- 

 fjrapli, as probably he had not seen the Indian Flora. There are nine 

 sheets of specimens in Herb. Kew. : — 



(1) Nilgiri Hills (ex herb. WkjU, sub Cat. n. 149); (2) Nilgiri 

 Hills, Kaity Brow {1^, Foullces, n. 2957, 26 Dec, 1850) ; (3) ex 

 herb. Griffith, n. 107 ; (4) Palni Hills, 1836 (ex herb. Wight, 

 n. Ill); (5) Nilgiri Hills, Kaity Brow (PL Ind. Or. n. 1512, ed. 

 Sohenacher) ; (6, 7, 8) Palni Hills {A. Sanliere, n. 364), and 

 Bombay Shola and Kodaikamal (1897, — no collector's name) ; 

 (9) Nilgiri Hills, at 456 metres (Viscount Gourjh). — There are 

 Ceylon specimens in Herb. Mus. Brit., but not at Kew. Trimen 

 correctly says, " I find the styles always 5, not 3, as given in Fl. 

 Brit. Iiid." 



165. C. INFLATUM Link ex Desfont. Cat. Fl. Hort. Paris, ed. 3, 

 462 (in addit., 1832). — Ind. Kew. cites " Link ex Sweet, Hort. Brit, 

 ed. 2, 57" (1830), where, however, it is only a nomen nndum. 

 Grenier, Monogr. 45, cites ed. 2 of Hesfontaine's Catalogue (1818), 

 as the earliest reference, where it is not to be found. Ed. 3 was 

 published in 1830 ; but the Kew Library copy has not the addita- 

 meritum of 1832 {i.e. pp. 417-484). 



Closely allied to C. dichotomum Linn. — from which it is dis- 

 tinguished by the more branching stems, the broader ovate-lanceolate 

 leaves, and the distinctively inflated calyx, inclosing a capsule the 

 size of a small cherry. As Grenier points out, both are cultivated 

 *' in hortis botanicis." See also Grenier in Acad. Sc. Besancon, 

 seance publ. 24 Aout 1839, 124. 



Hah. Turkey, Syria, Palestine ("Arabia Petraja"), Persia, and 



British Baluchistan. — There are 5 sheets of specimens in Herb. Kew. 



Turkey. — Kurdistan : Mts. Ak-dagh and Bey-dagh, and Mt. 



Akker-dagh above Marash {Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 721) ; Mardin, on 



rocky places {Si nt en is, It. Orient. 1888, n. 871, in Herb. Kew.). 



