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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, with Opposite ExstipuLATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Silene arenosa, 
CARYOPHYLLACE. 
BEB... 219. 
The Plains. 
N.-W. F. Province. 
Peshawar. 
Attock. 
Baluchistan. 
Silene tenuis, 
CARYOPHYLLACER. 
RAB. 112219. 
Himalaya, 
8-12,000 ft. 
Silene Griffithii, 
CARYOPHYLLACEA, 
F, B. I. 1. 220. 
Himalaya, 
7-11,000 ft. 
Lear Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, annual, slender, bluish-green, sticky, much 
branched from the root, velvety, leaves #-1$ in. long, 
stiff, narrow, long-pointed, margins rolled up, flowers % 
in. long in few-flowered widely dividing clusters, stalks 
1-1 in. long, thread-like, calyx }$-3 in. long, club-shaped, 
slender, 10-ribbed, base pushed inwards, teeth with thin 
papery margins, petals with the blade divided, lobes 
linear, stalk with a tooth on each side, scales 2, small, 
lanceolate, capsule oblong, the style stalk equal to the 
capsule ; for other characters see the last species. The 
flowers open at night. 
small, perennial, smooth or sticky with glands, 
many stems from the root, slender, unbranched, leaves 
1-3 in., short-or long-pointed, narrow, linear or lanceolate, 
often with scattered hairs, flat, radical leaves slightly 
broadened upwards, flowers $ in. long, dirty yellow or 
brown, often in a circle in short racemes, stalks 4-} in., 
bracts short, in a circle, awl-shaped, calyx bell-shaped, 
4-1 in., thin, base rounded or abrupt, 10-nerved, teeth 
blunt, spreading, petals divided, stalk with 2 teeth, 
hairy, scales short, oblong, capsule oblong, seeds with 
5 dorsal and lateral rows of tubercles; other characters 
like the last species, 
medium size, perennial, stout, velvety or hairy, 
stems divided or not ; leaves 24-4 by 3-11 in., radical leaves 
lanceolate with a broad tip ending in a broad stock, 
stem leaves oblong, sessile, velvety on both surfaces, 
flowers white, in opposite axillary irregularly 38-flowered 
clusters, shortly stalked, calyx ?-1 in. long, cylindric, 
barely dilated above except in fruit, teeth short-pointed, 
not bordered with white, nerves 10, green, base rounded 
or abrupt, petals deeply 2-lobed, lobes divided into 8-6 
parts, no scales, no teeth on stalks of petals, capsule oblong, 
ovary shortly stalked, seeds minute, sides flat or convex, 
back grooved ; other characters like the last species. This 
plant is used in Lahoul with an alkali as a substitute for 
soap. 
