Lychnis.] xvin. CARYOPHYLLE^. (Edgeworth &, Hook, f.) 225 



broad, auricled, exceeding the calyx ; limb small, recurved ; appendages notched. 

 Capsule exceeding the calyx, 10-cleft. 



ttt Stem elongate, usually laxly dichotomously branched (simple in L. 

 inflata). Leaves ovate elliptic or lanceolate. 



10. Xi. inflata, WalL Cat. n. 618; minutely pubescent, stem simple 

 erect 1-3-flowered leafy, leaves elliptic or lanceolate lower petioled, flowers 

 large terminal drooping, calyx very inflated pale with dark brown nerves, 

 teeth rounded, petals with a broad claw 2 large appendages and a short 

 rounded limb, carpophore short woolly, seeds reniform compressed, back 

 furnished with rows of long soft setae. Benth. in Royle III. 80. Melan- 

 dryum inflatum, Rohr t b. in Linncea xxxvi. 226. Agrostemma inflata, Don 

 Gen. Syst. i. 417. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, Blinkworth* 



Stem rather stout, 10-16 in., glandular-pubescent above, nodes swollen. Leaves 

 H~2 by f-if in., acute or acuminate. Pedicels slender, ebracteolate. Calyx f in. 

 long, nearly as broad, membranous ; nerves free or uniting in or below the broad hya- 

 line rounded teeth, which are not ciliate. A very curious and distinct form, the seeds 

 of which are quite peculiar. It is singular that it should have escaped the notice of all 

 collectors in Kumaon since the days of Blinkworth, the first explorer of the Flora of 

 that region. 



11. If. indica, Benth. in Royle III. 81 ; finely-pubescent, stem leafy dif- 

 fusely dichotomously branched, leaves elliptic or ovate-lanceolate or orbi- 

 cular, panicle lax many-flowered, calyx oblong inflated, nerves green or 

 brown, lobes short rounded, carpophore short broad pubescent, petals with 

 a 2-fid or fimbriate limb, seeds reniform granulate. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5500-10,000 ft., from Nipal to Marri. 



A tall dichotomously branched spreading weak herb, 2-3 ft. high ; stem below some- 

 times as thick as a swan's quill. Leaves variable, more or less ovate-lanceolate, lower 

 petioled, largest 4 in. long, membranous, flaccid. Flowers drooping when young, in 

 open or contracted panicled glandular-hairy cymes ; pedicels ebracteate. Calyx 4~f in. 

 long, glandular-pubescent ; nerves 10-15, free or combined, simple or branched ; teeth 

 broad, obtuse rarely acute. Petals very variable, usually white inside and purplish out- 

 side ; appendages short, obtuse, often crisped. Capsule ovoid, teeth 5, simple or bifid. 

 Seed* minute, very dark, the granulations on the back stronger than on the sides. 



VAR. 1. indica proper; petals with a short 2-fid blade, lobes entire or 2-toothed, 

 styles usually 3. Silene indica, Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 34 ; PL Ind. ii. 447 ; Wall Cat. 

 264 in part. Melandryum indicmn var. genuirium, Rohrb. in Linncea, xxxvi. 234. 



VAR. 2. fimlriata, Wall. Cat. 619 (Sp.) ; petals with a longer lacerate or fimbriate 

 blade, the lobes linear 2-fid, styles usually 5. Benth. in Royle III. 80, t. 20 B. L. erio- 

 stemon, Wall. Cat. n. 620. Melandryum indicum var. fimbriatum. fivhrb. I.e. 



12. Xi. nutans, Benth. in Royle III. 80; finely pubescent, stems dif- 

 fusely dichotomously branched, leaves ovate or elliptic-lanceolate or orbi- 

 cular, panicle lax few-flowered, calyx globose inflated, nerves green or 

 brown, lobes short rounded, carpophore short pubescent or 0, petals with a 

 short purple crenu late limb, seeds reniform granulate tubercled on the back. 

 Melandryum nutans, Rohrb. in Linncea, xxxvi. 229. L. ciliata, Walt. Cat. 

 n. 621. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Sikkim to Kunawar, alt. 7500-11,000 ft. ; Marri, alt. 

 10-12,000 ft. 



Very closely allied to L. indica, but apparently a smaller plant, more flaccid, with a 

 shorter more globose calyx, and short creiiulate corolla-limb. The upper leaves an; 

 sometimes orbicular-cordate. 



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