Silene.\ xvm. CARYOPHYLLEJE. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 



cymes lax opposite long-peduncled, calyx glandular cylindric, teeth lan- 

 ceolate-subulate, base truncate intruded, capsule narrow oblong, rather 

 longer than the gynophore. S. viriditiora, var. Rohrb. Monog. Silent, 215. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, Sirmur, Webb, 



We have seen but one specimen, itself a fragment. lf> in. tall, of what is evidently a 

 tall spare lax-flowered species of a plant resembling closely S. viridiflora, Lion. 

 Leaves 14 in. broad, puberuloua on both surfacen. Branches of panicle (peduncles of 

 cymes) 3-6 in., terminated by two ov ite foliacwous bracts flower* drooping; pedicels 

 ^-| in., densely tomentose. fbh/.c f in., very slender, 10-nerveii, ventricose in fruit; 

 teeth with s -arious edges. Petals 1'Hig, greenish- white ; limb bifid, lobes ligulate ; 

 scales 2. Filaments glabrous. Ovary cylindric, top globose ; styles 3. Capaule 

 immature, cyliudrie-obl<<n^. 



SECT. V. Gucubaloideee. Calyx cylindric, Founded at the base, pale, 

 membranous. Petals without auricles at the sides. Scandent or subscandent 

 slender lax perennials. Flowers in very lax few-flowered panicled cymes. 



11. 8. 1 Stracheyi, Edgew. ; glabrous, flaccid, subscandent, leaves 

 petioled lanceolate acuminate membranous, cymes 3-flowered bracteate, 

 calyx membranous, teeth broad with orbicular tips, capsule half the length 

 of the gynophore. 



.TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, Piti river, Kumaon, alt. 7 500 ft., Strach.& Winterl. Sikkim 

 in woods, Lachen river, alt. 9-10,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Habit and foliage of Cucubalus baccifer, but glabrous or nearly so, leaves longer 

 petioled. Calyx cylindric, and ovary with a very long gynophore and 5-lobed callous 

 tip, indicating a 5- valved debiscence. -titema shining. Leave* 2-2 by ^-f in., ciliolate, 

 with an intramarginal nerve. Pedicel* 4-1 in., very slender, minutely pubescent. 

 Calyx | in., pale, with 10 green nerves and anastomosing veins between them above ; 

 teeth hyaline, contracted below the orbicular ciliolate tips. Petals white, very narrow; 

 claw not auricled ; limb retuso or 2-lobed. Filaments glabrous; anthers short, didy- 

 mous. An exceedingly carious plant, ihtermediate between fiilene and Cucubalus, per- 

 haps better referred to the latter genus. 



12. S. khaaiana, Rohrb. in Linncea, xxxvi. 259 ; glandular pubescent 

 above, subscandent, leaves sessile ovate acuminate, flowers solitary and in 

 terminal 2-3-flowered bracteate cymes, calyx shortly cylindric, teeth broad 

 acute, base rounded, capsule oblong, gynophore very short. 



KHASIA Mm, at Molira and Moflong, alt. 5-6000 ft., ff. / & T. 



A straggling brittle hardly flaccid herb, with rather robust branches. Leaves 1-2 in., 

 not membranous, 3-5-nerved at the base, paler beneath, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, 

 ciliolate. Flowers erect ; pedicels 4~1 in., strict. Calyx in., with 10 broad nerves 

 and no veins. Petals pale pink; claw cuneate ; limb 2-partite, obtuse; scales small. 

 Filament* glabrous ; anthers didyraous. Capsule broad, with very small teeth. &<& 

 dorsally rounded, sides convex striate-tuberculate. 



7. CUCUBAXiVS, Linn. 



A diffuse subscandent herb. Leaves ovate- lanceolate. Flowers in 1-3- 

 fiowered leafy cymes or solitary in the forks of the branches. Calyx broadly 

 campanulate, 10-nerved, 5-toothed. Petals 5 ; claw narrow toothed at the 

 top ; limb 2-fid with 2 scales at its base. Stamens 10. Disk produced into 

 a short gynophore. Ovary 1- celled, 3-septate at the base ; styles 3 ; ovules 

 many. Fruit globose, tip crowned with an entire callus, shining, dry or 

 fleshy, at length fragile and bursting irregularly. Seeds reniforiu, shining ; 

 hilum lateral ; embryo annular. 



