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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Eruot, with Opposite Exstipunats Simpiy Luavas. 
Dianthus 
Caryophyilus, 
Carnation, 
Clove Pink, 
CARYOPHYLLACE ®. 
RY Bs 1.3. 214. 
N:-W. fF. Province, 
Attock (Falconer). 
Dianthus crinitus, 
CARYOPHYLLACE®. 
Pasa. 215. 
Salt Range. 
N.-W. F. Province. 
Peshawar. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Tunica stricta, 
CARYOPHYLLACER. 
Bees: ies 2D. 
Kashmir. 
Acanthophyllum 
macrodon, 
CARYOPHYLLACE®. 
EB. 1. 1.216. 
N.-W. F. Province. 
Waziri Hills 
(Stewart). 
Leap Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, perennial, smooth,  greyish-green, 
branched and leafy below, jomted and thickened at the 
joints ; leaves 4-6 by } in., linear, grooved, pointed ; flowers 
1-14 in. diam., pink, fragrant, in loosely branched clusters, 
bracts 4, broad, with an abrupt point, much shorter 
than the calyx, ealyx 1-1} im. long, tubular, 5-toothed, 
petals 5, stalked, smooth, toothed, stamens 10, inserted 
with the petals, on along process, styles 2; capsule ovoid 
4-toothed, seeds discoid, with a central groove. 
like the last species, but the bracts 4-5 are lanceo- 
late and long-pointed, branches rigid, clusters few-flowered, 
petals white, scented, fringed nearly to the base. 
medium size, annual, slender, smooth, branched 
from the base ; leaves radical, 472 in. long, numerous, linear 
with the tip broad and narrowing to the hase, stem leaves 
linear ; flowers 1 in. long, white, in clusters of very few 
flowers without bracts on straight slender stalks, calyx 
5-toothed and ribbed, top-shaped, petals 5, stalked, linear, 
oblong, margin even, stamens 10, ovary 1-celled, styles 
2; capsule oblong, opening by 4 teeth, seeds many, boat- 
shaped, wrinkled on the edges and keel. 
gmall, perennial, tufted, spinous, minutely velvety ; 
leaves 4-2 in. long, pale green, stiff with a hard sharp- 
pointed tip, horizontal, flat above, convex below, 44-;' 
in. diam. at the base ; flowers # in. long, pink, tortnimalt 
solitary, bracts 4, linear, with thin papery margins, rough 
with projecting processes, recurved, calyx cylindric, a 
toothed, teeth spiny with very narrow, thin, papery mar- 
gins, petals 5, narrow, long-stalked, stamens 10, styles 2, 
ovary 1-celled ; capsule ovoid or oblong, 1-2-seeded, seeds 
almost kidney-shaped, laterally flattened, margin notched, 
