Diantkus.\ XVITI. CARVOPHYLLE^E. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 215 



ft Surface of petals bearded or pubescent. 



7 : X>. Seg-uierl, Vtil. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 504 ; leaves broad, flowers 

 usually fascicled, bracts 4-6 $-f the length of the calyx, with leafy points, 



WESTERN TIBET, Ladak, Stewart. DISTRIB. Siberia, Caucasus, Greece- 

 Stem 6-10 in., leafy, erect, simple or paniculately branched. Leaves strict, linear, 

 obscurely 5-nerved. Flowers usually surrounded with leafy bracts below the 4-6 

 ovate abruptly cuspidate ones, which are themselves often tipped with an herbaceous 

 point. Calyx teeth mucronate. Petals rosy, blade obovate acutely toothed. 



** Petals fimbriate. 



8. D. fimbriatus, Bieberst. ; Boiss. FL Orient, i 495 ; rigid, leaves 

 rather broad subacute obscurely serrulate, bracts 6-8 short broad-ovate 

 acute, calyx f-1 in., petals fimbriate for | the length of the blade. 



WEOTERN TIBET; Falconer. DI&TRIB. N. Persia, Caucasus. 



titock stout, woody, often elongate, much branched and suffruticose ; stems many, 

 strict, erect, 6-10 in;,-l -flowered. Leaves f-1^ in., rigid, erect,. Bracts the length 

 of the "calyx, sometimes cuspidate. Calyx-teeth long, lanceolate, pungent. Petals 

 white, fading into lilac or pink. 



9. D. ang-ulatus, Royle III. 79 ; rigid, leaves linear acute serrulate, 

 bracts 4-6 ovate acuminate or the lower cuspidate, calyx ^-$ in., petals 

 fimbriate for ^ the length of the blade. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Kuriawar to Kishtwar, and in Piti and Zanskar, alt. 

 7-1 3, 000 ft. ^ 



Quite similar to D. jim.br iatus, and probably a variety of that plant, with the bracts 

 often coloured and varying exceedingly in length, from -4 the length of the calyx, 

 which rarely exceeds 4, and never | of an inch. 



VAR. 1. bracts rather lax ovate suddenly cuspidate. 



VAR. 2. bracts with a foliaceous point ^-| the length of the calyx, leaves Jark green, 

 cauline 3 in., petals less deeply cut. Habit of D. dettoides. Kishtwar. 



VAR. 3. incertus. Jacquem. Herb. (sp.);. bra6ts 4 rarely 6 lax ovate acuminate 

 -4 the length of the calyx, petals not so deeply cut. .Kunawar. 



10. D. crinitus, Smith; oi$s.Fl. Orient, i. 496 ; bracts 4-8 lanceolate 

 long-acuminate, calyx l-l in., teeth long lanceolate, petals fimbriate nearly 

 to the base of the blade. 



WESTERN- PUNJAB ; Salt Range, Fleming, &c. ; Peshawur, Vicary, &c. WESTERN 

 TIBET, Falconer. DISTRIB. Beluchistun, Turkestan, and westward to the Levant. 



Suffruticose below; branches rigid, 8-18 in., few flowered. Leaves rigid, acute, 

 cauline usually s-horter than the joints. Bracts -4 the length of the calyx, acute or 

 cuspidate. Petals \vhite, sweet-scented, segments 'capillary. 



D. barbatus, Linn., is enumerated by Royle, together with D. caucasicus, Sims, but 

 both are unknown to us as Indian plants. 



2. TUNICA, Scopoli 



Annual or perennial slender herbs. Calyx tubular, 5- Q6-) toothed, with 

 or without imbricate bracts. Petals 5, clawed, grsauallr widering into the 

 entire or emarginate limb. Shimens 10. Torus awtAL Owi.rt/ 1 -ceiled; styles 

 2 ; ovules numerous. Capmlt oblong, dehiscing by 4 teeth, many-seeded. 

 Seeds discoid or orbicular, peltate ; embryo straight. DISTRIB About 10 

 species, chiefly South European and West Asiatic. 



