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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, with Opposite EixstreuLAte SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Lychnis Stewartii, 
CARYOPHYLLACE. 
EF. B. 1.1224. 
Himalaya, Upper 
Chenab and 
Chamba River, 
8-11,000 ft. 
(Stewart). 
Lychnis indica, 
CARYOPHYLLACE®. 
BAB a /225. 
Himalaya, 
5-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Changlagalli 
(Douie). 
Lychnis nutans, 
CARYOPHYLLACE™®. 
Peb.-), 1,225. 
Himalaya, 
9-12,000 ft. 
Murree, Hattu 
(Collett). 
Lychnis pilosa, 
CARYOPHYLLACER. 
BR. B. 1. i: 226. 
Himalaya, 
9-12,000 ft. 
LeaF Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, stiff, slender, upper part sticky and woolly, 
leafy ; leaves 2 by ,-;,1m., very narrow, linear, spreading, 
l-nerved, keeled by the stout mid-rib, margins turned 
in; flowers # in. long, white, nodding, solitary or in 
opposite pairs with 2 linear bracts above the middle, in 
the upper leaf axils, calyx 4 in. long, oblong, velvety, nerves 
green faint, free or united, teeth 5, rounded, edges thin 
with long curled hairs, petals 5, heart-shaped with a 
notched margin, blade very short, scales 2, notched, di- 
vided into two, curved back, stalk very broad with a 
tooth on each side, petals projecting beyond the calyx, 
stamens 10, styles 8, very short ; capsule ovoid, projecting 
out of the calyx, 10-fid, stalk woolly. 
medium size, leafy, branches dividing into forked 
pairs, very slightly velvety ; leaves 1-5 by 4-24 in., ovate- 
lanceolate to orbicular, lower leaves stalked; flowers 
creamy white inside and purplish outside, erect or nod- 
ding in open or close many-flowered branching sticky 
hairy clusters, stalks without bracts, calyx }-3 in. long, 
velvety, bell-shaped, nerves 10-15, simple or branched, 
teeth 5, broad, blunt, rarely short-pointed, petals 5, much 
longer than the calyx, blade 2-fid or divided into several 
processes, 2 erect crisped seales at the base of the blade, 
forming with other petal scales.a crown over which the 
anthers project, stamens 10, styles 5, twisted, silvery ; 
capsule ovoid, teeth 5, simple or bifid, stalk short, vel- 
vety, seeds many, minute, very dark, kidney shaped, granu: 
late. 
very like the last species, but smaller, calyx more 
rounded and shorter, petals purple and blade shorter and 
less divided. 
very like the last species, but covered with long 
hairs and the seeds with longer projections. 
