Plants of the Punjab. 149 
Heres, Erect, witH Opposite EXstTIpULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Arenaria Meyeri, 
CARYOPHYLLACE. 
BAB. Tsi.286. 
N.-W. F. Province. 
Peshawar (Stewart). 
Baluchistan. 
Arenaria foliosa, 
CARYOPHYLLACER. 
Be Beka: 286: 
Himalaya, 
9-13,000 ft. 
Arenaria kashmirica, 
CARYOPHYLLACES. 
Bo Bak, 1. 236! 
Himalaya, 
6-7,000 ft. 
Lahul (Jaeschke). 
Arenaria 
holosteoides, 
Kakua, gandial. 
CARYOPHYLLACER. 
Po Bs doe Oat. 
Himalaya, 
7-12,000 ft. 
Murree (Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier). 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
as long as the sepals, stamens 10, slender, styles 3, rarely 
4; capsule broadly ovoid, 4-6-valved, valves undivided, 
equal in length to the sepals, seeds many, very granulate. 
small, annual, covered with spreading glandular 
hairs, stem cylindric, branches in parallel clusters; leaves 
4-3 In, lmear, awl-shaped, recurved; flowers } in. diam., 
white, in clusters, sepals 5, 4 i. long, green, erect, rigid, sharp, 
margims white, petals 5, very ‘short, ovate-oblong, not 
divided, stamens 5-7, styles 3; capsule oblong, much shorter 
than the sepals, 8-valved, seeds many, red-brown, round, 
notched, flattened. 
small, perennial, quite smooth, branched from the 
base, slender, leafy ; leaves 3-3 by ;4 in., spreading, never 
stiff or sharp, very narrow, linear, bright green ; flowers 
iin. diam., white, on the long-stalked, almost umbelled, 
clusters, bracts and bracteoles leathery, concave, short- 
pointed, calyx rounded and not thickened at the base. 
sepals 5, $ in., leathery, sharp, petals 5, longer than the 
sepals, stamens 5, styles 8 ; capsules ovoid, larger than the 
sepals, valves 8, recurved, seeds many, small, pale brown, 
kidney-shaped, granulate on the back. 
very like the last species, but glandular, velvety, 
leaves stiffer and sharper, flowers smaller with longer 
petals. 
large, slender, pliable, smooth or velvety, much- 
branched ; leaves 1-3 in., linear or linear-oblong, sessile, 
base broad, short- or long-pointed ; flowers 4-4 in. diam., 
white, nodding in few-flowered clusters, flower stalks 
slender, widely separated, no bracts, calyx not thickened 
at the base, sepals 5, blunt, linear-lanceolate to broadly 
ovate-oblong, green with thin edges, smooth or very hairy 
and glandular at the back, petals 5, equal to or longer 
than the sepals, tip with a shallow notch, broad, stamens 
5, styles 2-3, thread-like, long; capsule nearly round, 
shorter than the calyx, very thin, 2-6 valved to the base, 
_ seeds %, red brown or blackish, with rows of sharp tuber- 
cles. 
