228 xvin. CARYOPHYLLE^:. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Ccrasthnn. 



Perennial. Stems very slender, flaccid. 1-2 ft. Leaves 1-1^ in., membranous, not 

 margined, ciliate, obscurely petioled. Flotcers few, in terminal dicbotomcns cymes ; 

 pedicels divaricate, tomentose. Sejxih i in., oblwug laneeolafe, acute, margins narrowly 

 scarinus. Ca)>*uli'* rather longer than the sepals. There is a specimen marked as 

 Mauritian in Herb. Benth., but I suspect it is Indian ;'jt has, however, rather longer 

 petals. 



SECT. ill. Orthodon. Styles 5.' Vatws of the capsule straight or 

 slightly spreading ; margins revolute or recurved. 



4. C. vulg-atum, Linn. : annual'or perennial, tomentose or hairy, glan- 

 dular above, lower leaves spathulate, upper oblong ovate or lanceolate ob- 

 tuse or acute, petals equalling the calyx, rarely or larger, capsules much 

 exceeding the calyx often curved. Wiy/tt <(' Am. Pro<lr. 43. 



Throughout the temperate and subalpine regions of INDIA and (''KVT.OX. ascending to 

 15,000ft. in Sikkim and Western Tibet. DISTKIH. Temperate N. Europe and 



introduced into various conn; 



Stems 6-12 in., erect or suberect, simple or branched, stout or slender. CI/HHS 

 various, few or many-flowered, open or crowded or subeapitate or subumbeilate. 

 rimri ,-s fa-^ in. duun., sometimes apetalons or f>-androus. Copmie very variable in 

 length, and seeds in amount of granulation or tubercnlation. 



VAK. 1. glomerate, Thnillier: annual, pubescence dense spreading, leaves obtuse, 

 cymes at first siibcapitale, fruiting pedicels suberect shorter than the sepals, bracts all 

 herbaceous, sepals acute densely hairy, margins narrowly membranous. 



VAK. ~2. tririuHx, Link ; annual or perennial, cymes usually open, leaves usually 

 lanceolate or obovate-ia^ ntr, pube-emce shorter less spreading. br. 



herbaceous, sepals lanceolate, margin narrowly membranous. 



YAI:. ::. f/,-nti</i/tni, Don Prodr. 216 (sp.) ; annual, tlrccid, stems 6-10 in., lower 

 leaves obovate-spathulate, upper ohlon--. cymes open, bracts herbaceous. pe.diceK slender, 

 jictals twice as long as the calyx. ('. napalense, \Vull. l<tt. tj'JS. Temperate Himalaya, 

 ail. (I -10,000 ft. 



? \.\i\. 4. I Hi, fiat; dwarf, densely tufted, leaves oblong or elliptic, cyme 

 i, bracts all herbaceous, (lowers as in var. .">. i/nt/fi^or'/ . Sassar pat 

 16-17,000 it., T. Tliuuixon; Ladak. 1'erhaps a new species, but the speeimeiis 



are very few. 



PVAR. 5. membranacea, .b-i''<|. mss. (sp.): stem slender erect, leaves o' 

 late acute, cymes tew flowered, bracts with broad scarious edges, pedicels sli 

 largei- than the broadly scari jials. Knnawar, between l : 



ghat aii'l Doubling, Jacquemont. Perhaps a dillerent species or a small state of the 

 following, but we have onlv '_' stems. 



5. C. Thomson!, Jlook.f.; clothed with spreading glandular hairs, 

 stems slender erect, leaves all linear-oblong subacute cyme.-, few-flowered, 

 bracts with narrow scarious edges, pedicels slender, flowers large, sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate subacute coloured below the scarious tips, much smaller 

 than the broadly-obovate petals. 



TEMPERATK WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kishtwar, alt. 11-12,000 ft., T. Thomson; 

 Kumaon, alt. 10,000 ft., Struck. & }\'i,,t.; Lahnl, Jac*ck?,-e. 



AVe were at first disposed to regard this as the C. yrandiflorum, Don, because of the 

 size of the flower: but that plant having broad! v obovate lower leaves is no doubt 

 Wallich's C. napalense (a var. of triviale], which has further much smaller flowers and 

 a verv different habit from this. Stems 6-12 in., quite erect, rather slender, copiously 

 hairy, branched at the very base only. Leaves f-lj in., straight, the very lowest soon 

 withering and more obovate. Cymes subumbeilate. Flowers |-f in. diam., with broad 

 petals. Fruit unknown. 



