Gypsopkila.] xvin. CARYOPHYLLE^. (Edg-eworth & Hook, f.) 217 



SECT, f I. Keterochroa. Herbs. Leaves flat. Ctd*tx campanulate 5-fid. 



2. O. sedifolia, Kurz. in Flora, 1872, 285 ; perennial, tufted, hoary all 

 over, leaves linear obtuse, cymes capitate. G. Tibetica, H.f. & T. Herb. 

 Ind. Or. 



WESTERN TIBET, Zanskar and Bras, alt. 9-1 3,000 ft., Thomson. 



Root very stout, woody, with very many short tufted pointed decumbent branches 

 Stems pale. Leaves fascicled, in., nerveless, rather thick, pruinose. Heads of cymes 

 &-i in., on elongated branches 1-3 in. diani. ; bracts linear, obtuse. Calyx ~fa in., 

 5-lrbed, teeth obtuse, margins scarious. Capsule not exceeding the calyx. Seeds 

 cochleate. 



3. G. cerastioides, Don Prodr. 213; perennial, hoary-pubescent, 

 branches many decumbent, leaves ol'ovate-spathulate, cymes lax. Acosmia 

 rupestris, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 644; Carnb. iv Jacq. Very. ot. 26, t. 28. 

 Timaeosia rupestris, Klotzsch in Bot. Jteis. Pr. Waldem. 138, t. 33 (styles 3). 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA from Kashmir and Kunawar to Sikkim, alt. 6-12,000 ft. 



Very variable in size ; branches 4-10, in. Leaves -2 by ~| in., radical petioled, 

 cauline sessile, all ciliate. Cymes usually lax, with leafy bracts. Flowers sessile or 

 pedicelled, very variable in si/.-, J-^ in. diani. Culyx 4 in., caiupanulate, pubescent; 

 lobea obtuse, strongly ciliate with curved hairs. Petals lilac, spathulate, 3-nerved. 

 Styles 2-3. Seed* broad, black, tubercled. 



5. SAFONARXA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves flat. Flowers in dichotomous cymes. 

 Calyx more or less tubular, ovoid or oblong, 5-toothed, nerves obscure. 

 Petals 5, clawed ; limb entire or notched, with or without a basal scale. 

 Stamens 10. Lisle small, or produced into a gynophore. Ovary 1 -celled, or 

 imperfectly 2-3-ceJled ; styles 2, rarely 3 ; ovules many. Capsule ovoid or 

 oblong, rarely subglobose, 4-toothed. Seeds reniform or subglobose, hilum 

 marginal ; embryo annular. DISTRIB. Species about 30, chiefly Mediter- 

 ranean and W. Asiatic. 



1. S. Vaccaria, Linn.; radical leaves oblong, cauline sessile, base 

 rounded or cordate, calyx-teeth triangular margins scarious, petals short 

 erose. Wall. Cat. 1603. !S. Vaccaria and oxyodonta, Br>us. Fl. Orient, i. 525. 

 S. perfoliata, Roxb. FL Ind, ii. 445. Gypsophila Vaccaria, W. & A. Prodr. 42. 



In wheatfields throughout INDIA, and in TIBET. DISTRIB. A weed of cultivation. 



A tall, robust, simple or sparingly branchod perfectly glabrous annual, 12-24 in. 

 high. Leaves 13 by ^~ f in., acute, cauline linear-oblong. Cymes corymbose, many- 

 flowered. Floiver* erect; pedicels slender. Calyx 4 in., with 5 broad green nerves, 

 ventricose in fruit. -Petals rosy, obovate. Capsule included, broadly o'void. Seeds 

 large, globose, black, granulate. 



6. SIIiENE, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Flowers solitary or cymose, often secund on 

 the branches of the cyme. Calyx more or less inflated, ovoid campanulate 

 clavate or tubular, 5-toothed or cleft, 10- rarely many-nerved. Petals 5 ; 

 claw narrow ; limb entire bifid or laciniate, usually with two basal scales. 

 Stamens 10, 5 usually adnate to the petals. Disk usually produced into a 

 long gynophore. Ovary incompletely 3- (rarely 1-) celled ; styles 3 (rarely 5) ; 

 ovules numerous. Capsule 3-6-toothed or valved. Seeds reniform, usually 

 tubercled, hiliura marginal ; embryo annular. DISTKJLB. Species about 250, 

 chieily natives of temperate Europe and Asia. 



