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testa minute irregulariter brunneo-lineolata.—Arenaria ‘ittledalet, 
Hemsl. in Kew Bull. 1896, p. 209. 
CentRaAL Tiset: Gooring Valley, ta m., Littledale. SIKKIM: 
Naku Chu Valley, 4800 m., Smith & Cav 
The salient characteristic of Gooringia is the presence of only two 
sever py which are opposite the inner sepals. A third stamen, opposite 
one of the outer sepals, was found in one flower, and a sta minode, more 
or les reduced, sometimes occurs in the same position (see figs. 4-5). 
Reduction to such an extent in the androecium is rare in the Alsineae. 
Buffonia tenuifolia, L., however, is vaeg aes Boissier (Fl. Or. vol. i. 
665) to have three or more rarely tw mens ; Cerdia, a Mexican 
genus of Polycarpeae, has only a oa pene ; Pollichia, an African 
enus of Paronychieae, has o 0; Dich hus, of tribe 
—— has two or three ; ty fa eccies may have one, two, five 
** The disk of Gooringia consists of four lobes, opposite the sepals ; the 
lobes opposite the inner ah are bilobed, and those o eas the outer 
they are generally bilobed. 
In the previous seat tap ss of G. Litiledalei the flowers are stated to 
be apetalous. Petals were found, however, in all the flowers examined 
during the antarsiok of the present fizure and description. They are 
usually entire, occasionally emarginate or bilobed. 
Apart from ‘the reduction in the number of stam ens, Te differs 
from Arenaria in the tetramerous flowers ; from Bu uffoni va in the four- 
valved capsule ; and from Moehringia in the estrophiolate seeds. 
stands in the same relation to Puen as raise does to Alsine. 
In Buffonia and Alsine the toe pe dehisces by as many valves as there 
are Styles ; whereas in Gooringia and Arenaria hs onl or teeth of the 
capsule are twice as numerous as ‘i e styles 
umerous crystals of calcium oxalate are visible in shag leaf by trans- 
mitted light under a lens of low power.—T. A. Spr 
Fig. 1, upper pen of branch, = — eres Bx does 3; gun flower ; 
4, anothe er, pistil removed ; 5, anoth alyx re ; 6, par lisk, bearing 
stamen and petal ; Z vty 8, opgitusdinat plete pee vet Ps oe and 
ovules ; 10, ¢ capsule ; 1, seed. All enlarged. 
