220 xviii. CARYOPHYLLEJE. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Sikne. 



SECT. IV. Otites. Calyr- iO-ner\eJ, cylindric or contracted towards 

 the base. Petal* not auricled at the sides, with or without .scales at the top 

 of the claw. Perennials. Flowers iii opposite panicled or racemed cymes. 



7. S. Falconeriana, fienth. in Royle III. 79, t. 20; perennial, stout, 

 erect, pubescent below, leaves linear-lanceolate serrulate-ciliate, flowers iu 

 short uniform opposite cymes, calyx cylindric narrow, base intruded, teeth 

 short obtuse, petals very narrow spathulate, tip rounded or notched, cap- 

 sule ovoid longer than the gynophore. Rohrb. Mono</. SOm/e^ 202. 



WESTKRK HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Kunawar, alt. 3-9000 feet, JKoi/le, &c. 



Stems 12 ft., several from the wood}' stalk, simple or branched, closely pubescent 

 below. Leaves 14~2 in., narrow, pubescent or glabrous on both surfaces. Jnflore*- 

 cence 1-1 4 ft. long, lax, of opposite or whorled cymes or branched racemes. Jrlovxrs 

 erect or inclineil; pedicels slender; bracts minute. Calyx fin., slightly dilated up- 

 wards in flower, much so in fruit, membranous, nerves 10, green ; teeth not margined 

 with white; base truncate. P, tals' white, without scales or auricles. Capsule* ovoid, 

 twice or thrice (he length of the gym-phore. Xeetlt minute, granulate, sides flat or 

 convex, back channelled. 



8. S. Griffith!!, lloi*s. Fl. Orimf. i. (537; perennial, robust, densely 

 pubescent touientose or yillous, leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, radical 

 petioled, flowers in opposite few-flowered cymes, calyx cylindric, teeth acute, 

 base rounded or truncate, petals 2-partite, lobes 3-6-fid, scales O, capsule 

 oblong, gynophore thort. S. Webbiana, Wall. (.'(. (>11. S. multinda, Etigew. 

 in TrtHU, /,/////.,W. xx. 34. Carpophora Ho&MUttti, Klnl*sch in lint. AVwe 

 Pr. Wait/.. 13!), t. :}-2. S. viscosa, A rt, ; l' nth, in Roylc ///. 7!>. Me 1 uulryum 

 Griflithii, tiohrb. in Linmca, xxxvi. 248; Mowj. MU*6, 232. S. viscosa 

 lu.sus 3, ant I /> suavcoJens, Kar. cf: Kir. (s/O, llohrh. M<>n<j. Xrfene, 205. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Gurwhul to Cabul and Kishtwnr. alt. 7-1 1,000 ft. Dis- 

 TRJB. Aflghanibtau, 8oongaria. 



Very variable in pubescence, from hoary to almost woolly. Me inn 12-18 in., simple 

 or divided, very robust. Leare* 2.^-4 by -l in., radical epathulate-lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed into a broad petiole ; cauline sessile, hometimes cordate at the bate, more or less 

 pubescent on both surfaces. Flou-ers in opposite irregularly 3-flowered cvmes, shortly 

 pedicelled. ('ulyx |-1 in., glandular, hardly dilated above except iu fruit, teeth not 

 margined with v.-hitc, nerves 10, green. /MM more or less laciniate, without scales or 

 auricles. Petals white. Cnjiitdlf tour times as long as the gynophore. Seeds imma- 

 ture, apparently like those of <S'. falconer iatta. Very closely allied to -S'. viscosa, L., 

 with which it is united by Bentham and Rohrbach. 



0. S. kunaxvai enftis, lltnth. in Rvyle III. 79 ; perennial, puberulous 

 or quite glabrous, slender, leaves narrow-spatlmlate or lanceolate, flowers in 

 opposite distant pairs or cymes, pedicels slender, calyx glabrous cylindric 

 or subciavate, base intruded, teeth short obtuse with scarious margins, 

 petals deeply 2-fid, scales oblong, capsule ovoid twice as long as the gyno- 

 phore. 



WESTERN HJMALAYA, in the Tibetan regions of Kunawar and Piti, alt. 10,000ft., 

 Moi/le, Jacqutmont, &c. 



JlrancJits tufted from a prostrate stock ; flowering ones slender, 6-12 in., usually 

 glabrous above. Leaves 1-1 1 in., very narrow, minutely pubesceut on both surfaces. 

 Flowers rather few and scattered, nodding, pedicels slender, equalling the calyx. 

 Calyx - in., membranous, quite glabrous or the teeth pubescent, clavate in fruit, 

 10-nerved. Petals with 2 linear-oblong scales and no auricles. Capsule pale. Seed 

 dorsally channelled, sides nearly fiat, hardly tubercled. 



10. S. Webblana, Wall. Cat. 627; tall, slender, minutely pubescent, 

 cauline leaves broadly ovate-cordate amplexicaul acuminate 5-9 -nerved, 



