218 XVIIT. CARYopiiYLLEjF.. (E%cworth & Hook, f.) [SHene. 



The following escapes from cultivation occur in Indian collections. 



8. Anneria, L. in the Nilghemos and Canara (Plant. Hohenack. No. 615).- 1 & 

 noctiflora t L. {Wall. Oat. 624, from Herb. Wight., without habitat). /S C'slornta, 

 Poiret; (8. intrusa, W. & A. Prodr. 42; Wight 111. i. t. 26); Nilghiris and Garwhal. 



SUBGEN. I. Sehen. Petal* imbricate in bud. Calyx usually inflated, 

 10- or 20-nerved, reticulately veined. 



1. S. inflata, Smith, ; glaucous, cymes many-flowered, bracts scarious, 

 calyx 20-nerved, petal? deeply cloven. Wall. Cat. 623 ; lioiss. Fl. Orient, i. 

 628. S. Wallichiana, KiotischinBot. Rei&. Pr. Waldem. 139, t. 30. S. Cucu- 

 balus, WiJb. in Hohrb. Monoy. tiilene, &4. Cucubalus Behen, I Ann. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, elev. 5-11,500 ft., from Mipal to the Indus. DISTRIB. 

 Temperate Asia, Europe, and N. Africa. 



Perennial, 2-5 ft., erect or ascending, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 1-3 in., ovate 

 obovate or oblong, cauline sessile ; margins denticulate. Flower (-f in. diam., droopidg 

 white. Calyx ovoid, base intruded, teeth broadly triangular. Petals white, with two 

 gibbosities in the place of scales. Capsule globose, gynophore short, tieeds concave in 

 front, convex on the base, tubercled in lines. 



SUBGEN. II. Silene proper. Petals contorted in estivation. Calyx 

 with 10 anastomosing nerves, or 20, 30, or 60 simple nerves, not reticulately 

 veined. 



SECT. L Conosilene. Calyx 20-, 30-, or 60-nerved, in fruit conical 

 from a broad base. Annuals. 



2. S. oonoidea, Linn.; glandular-pubescent, cauline leaves oblong or 

 lanceolate acute, flowers <panicled, calyx-base intruded, teeth subulate-lan- 

 ceolate, i its length, petals .>h,,vate, capsules ovoid contracted above sessile. 

 Boiss. Ft. Orient, i. obCT ; Watt. Cat. 625. 



WESTER* HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to the Indus, alt. 1-8000 ft. ; and from OODE 

 to the PANJAB, in the plains. WEST TIBET; Ladak, alt. 8-11,000 ft. DISTKIB. West- 

 ward to the Atlantic ocean. 



Erect, 6-18 in., diciiotoinously branched. Leave* 2-4 in., radical spatbulate, cau- 

 line sometimes very narrow, sesaile. Calyx 1 in. iiitlaf>d in fruit. Petals pink, small, 

 entire or erose ; claw auricled; scales 2. Capsule crustaceous, shining, tieed* coch- 

 leate, with 5 dorsal and as many lateral rows of tubercles. 



SECT. II. Scorpioideee. Calyx 10-nerved. Annuals (the Indian 

 species). Flowers in unilateral racemes. 



3.* S. arallioa, Linn.; annual, laxly pilose, glandular above, cauline 

 leaves linear-oblong or spathulate, cyme simple, flowers unilateral, calyx- 

 base rounded, teeth subulate lanceolate its length, capsule subsessile 

 ovoid. Bous. Fl. Orient, i. 590. 



GARWHAL, Falconer; CARNATIC, Wiyht: an introduced weed. DISTRIB. A weed of 

 cultivation. 



Erect, 8-18 in., clothed especially above with spreading hairs. Leaves f-14 i jl - 

 Racemes manj-Bowered. Floicers ^^ in. long, secund, lower pedicelled, upper sessile. 

 Calyx ovoid, 10-striate, contracted above. Petals small, red (or white), cinargiuate ; 

 scales 2. Filaments villous below. Seeds minute, striate-tuberculate, not grooved, 

 face flat with an ear-shaped depression. 



3. S. apetala, Wittd. Sp. PI. ii. ;107 ; annual, hoary-pubescent, cauline 

 leaves linear-oblong, flowers subracemose, calyx campanulate, base obconic, 

 teeth short lanceolate acute, margins scarious, petals included, capsule 

 globose, shortly sjipitate. jBoiss. Fl. Orient, i. 596. 



