224 xvni. CARYOPHVLLE-K. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Lychnis. 



reniform dark granulate. Melandryum brachypetaluin, Fend in Led. Ft. 

 A'o*x. i. 326. Var. tibetanum, Rohrl. in. Linncea, xxxvi. 232. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA; from SiWdm, alt. 12 lf>;<)00 ft., /. D. H. t to Kunawar, Jactfue- 

 mmit; and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-15,000 ft., Str. & Wlnterb., Thomson, &c.. Dw- 

 TK5B. Siberia, Dahuria, Mongolia. 



Sterns strict, very rarely dividi-d except at the base. Leaves 2-5 in., rarely Jin. 

 broad. Flowers often in distant pairs towards the top of the stem ; pedicel strict, 

 2-bracteolate. C'alyx | in. long, pale with dark or green nerves, which are very vari- 

 able ; teeth spreading in fruit. Petals pale-red or dirty white, included or slightly 

 exsi'rted ; claw glabrous or ciliate, obtusely anricled. Sted* minute. Capsule with 

 wimple or 2-fid teeth. The nerves of tli'e calyx are soiuetiiws united at tine tip-:, at 

 others free ; at times simple, and again the secondaries branch and unite with the 

 primaries. 



7. X.. urulticaulls, Waff. Cot. 622 ; stems -2-3 ft. strict laxly pubescent 

 above, leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous or puberulous margins ftcaberulmus, 

 flowers very few in elongate racemes nodding; calyx oblong-cauipanulate, 

 nerves green or brown united in the teeth, petals short, limb minute toothed, 

 carpophore short pubescent or 0, seeds reniform dark granulate. Benth. in 

 Royle III. 80. Melandryum multicaule, Rohrb. in Linncea, xxxvi. 226. 



TEMPERATB HIM ALA VA ; Nipal, Wallieh; Kumaon, 10-12,000 ft., Edgtw. ; Sikkim, 

 alt. 11,000 ft., /. D. H (flower rather Iarg, calyx green). 



A much taller plant than L. bradiypetala, inhabiting lower levels, with sparser in- 

 florescence, longer pedicelled fewer flowers and usually broader leaves ; bnt probably 

 only a lowland form; also very near L. ntttaiw, R-tyfe. Wallich's and Edgowoith's 

 specimens have calyces ^ in. long, with purple nerves ; the Sikkim ones have larger 

 calyces, J in. loner, with broader green nerves; in both the venation is very variable. 

 Styles 3-5 and capsule 5-6- or 8-10-cleft. 



8. X.. Cachemeriana, Royh ; Brnth. in Hoyle Til. 80; stem robust. 

 erect strict simple lioary, leaves from ovate to lanceolate scaberulous, flowers 

 largo erect or nodding in subterminal contracted cymes, calyx green oblong, 

 teeth acute, nerves many anastomosing, claw of petals woolly, limb 2-fid, 

 lobes cut, carpophore broad densely woolly, seeds reniform granulate. 

 Melandryum indicum, var. timbriatutn (a form), JKohrb. in Lintuza y xxxvi. 

 235. 



KASHMIR, Rojfa &c. 



An erect rigid species, with strict rarely spreading cymes. Leave* very variable, 

 2-3 by 4~S in. Calyx membranous, f-l in. long, teeth acute or acuminate. Petals 

 white or pale, blade about in. long. Carpophore about \ as long as the 5-fid capsule. 

 Probably only a form of L. indica, as regarded by Eohrbacb, but the calyx-lobes are 

 usually much more acute. 



9. Xi. Stewart!!, Edgew. ; stem short, wiry, hoary below pubescent 

 above leafy, leaves very narrow linear spreading 1-nerven, flowers few small 

 solitary in the upper leaf axils nodding, calyx oblong pubescent, nerves 

 green faint free or united, teeth rounded, petals obcordate with a very 

 short 2-partite white limb, carpophore densely woolly, styles 3 very short. 



WESTKRX HIMALAYA; Upper Chenab and Chamba river, alt. 8-11,000 ft. 



A very curious little species, probably polygamo dioecious, of which there are but 

 scanty specimens, without seed, somewhat resembling Stellaria graminea in foliage, 

 and quite unlike any other Indian species of the genus. Stem 4-6 in., rigid, slender, 

 upper part and pedicels viscidly torntmtose. Leaves 2 by T V~rV in., rigid, keeled by 

 the solitary stout midrib, margins recurved. Pedicels solitary or in opposite pain, 

 pubescent, with two linear bracts above the middle. Calyx | in. long, membranous, 

 pubescent, teeth scarious, edges with long curled cilia, Petal* with the claw very 



