Silene.] xvni. CARYOPHYLLEJE. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 219 



PANJAB ; Peshawur, Kieary, Stewart. DISTRIB. Westwards to Spain. 

 Stem 6-24 in., simple or branched. Leaves 1-14 in., acuminate, cilioiate. Cymes 

 irregular, loosely racemose ; peduncles exceeding the calyx ; bracts acute. Calyx 



yin., with broad green hairy nerves ; teeth short. Petals 0, or minute, spathulate. 

 jht red. Seeds flat, channelled, with a double corrugated margin. 



SECT. III. Aurtcularia. Calyx 10-rierved, contracted towards the 

 base. Petals with the claw toothed or auricled on both sides. Perennials. 

 Flowers solitary or in few-flowered elongate panicled cymes. 



4. S. lYToorcroftiana, Wall. Cat. 626; perennial, finely pubescent, 

 cauline leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, flowers i-3 terminal or subter- 

 minal, calyx tuhular-clavate viscid, base intruded, teeth short obtuse with 

 scarious margins, capsule ovoid shorter than the gynophore. Benih. in 

 Royle III. 79; Rohrb. Monog. Silent, 129. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 10-13,000 ft. ; from Garwhal to Kashmir. WESTEBS 

 TIBET, alt. 9-16,000 ft. DISTRIB, Affghanistan. 



Stems many from a woody stock, densely tufted ; flowering branches erect, 6--18 in., 

 slender, simple or dichotomous at the top. Radical leaves spathulate-lanceolate, acute ; 

 cauline shorter, acuminate aeute or obtuse. Flowers erect. Calyx 1-1$ in., slender 

 below the middle; nerves 10, dark. Petals exsertecl, elaw auricled with a long actito 

 tooth ; lirnb 2-partite, segments ligulate, dirty red or white, involute when withering ; 

 scales 2, long. Capsule with the gynophore as long as itself. Seeds compressed, not 

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



VAR. 1. taller, more slender, 2-3-flowered. Tibet. 



VAB. 2. dwarf, leaves linear, pedicels longer than the bracts. 



5. S. arenosa, C. Koch, in Linncea, xv. 711 ; annual, slender, glaucous, 

 viscid above, leaves narrow, margins revolute, flowers in sparse much- 

 divaricating cymes, calyx clavate, base intruded, teeth lanceolate-ciliate, 

 capsule oblong equalling the gynophore. S. leyseroides and S. salsa, Boiss. 

 Ft. Orient, i. 603. 



WESTERN PANJAB, common at Peshawur, Attoek, &c. Vicary, Stewart. DISTRIB. 

 Afghanistan, Persia, Armenia. 



\ery slender, excessively branched from the base, minutely pubescent, glandular 

 above. Leaves shorter than the intern'odes, f-14 in., rigid, acuminate. Flouwrs erect 

 or inclined; pedicels 4-1 in., capillary. Calyx 4~ in , slender, 10 ribbed ; teeth with 

 searrious margins. Petals with an oblong 2 -fid blade, lobes linear, claw auricled; 

 2, small, lanceolate. Flowers open at night. 



6. S. tenuis, Willd.; perennial, glabrous or viscid, leaves narrow 

 linear or lanceolate, flowers in short racemes, calyx campanulate. base 

 rounded or truncate, teeth obtuse, petals 2-partite auricled, capsule oolong, 

 gynophore short, ttohrb. Monog. Silene, 186. S. graminifolia, Otth. in 

 UC. Prodr. i. 368, not of Ledeb. S. Gul.-Waldemarii, Klotzsch Bot. Rei* 

 Pr. Waldem. 140, t. 31. S. repens, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 614 (1 of Patrin) : 

 Ledeb. Ic. Fk Ross. t. 425. S. amaena, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1 (not of ed. 2)1 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 8-12,000 ft., from Kunawar to Kashmir, Jacquenwnt. 

 WESTERN TIBET, Falconer. DISTRJB. Northern and Arctic Asia. 



Stems many from the root, erect or ascending, 4-18 in., slender, simple, naked when 

 tall. Leave* 1-3 in., acute or acuminate, often oiliate, flat, radical slightly dilated 

 upwards. Flowers often whorled, sometimes secund, inclined or nodding; pedicels 

 &-Jin.; bracts short, whorled, subulate. Calyx' -4 in., membranous, 10-nerved, teeth 

 spreading. Petals dirty-yellow or brown ; scales short, oblong ; claw ciliate. Capsule 

 twice the length of the gynophore. Seeds with 5 dorsal ana as many lateral rows of 

 tubercles. 



VAR. dasyphylla, Turcz. FL Baic. Dah. i. 207 (sp.), densely pubescent, leaves more 

 coriaceous not ciliate. Lahn\ t .JfB*chke. 



