232 xvin. CARYOPHYLLE.E. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Sfellaria. 



rounded at the base, quite free. Petals half as long again as the sepals, 2-fid to the 

 middle. Filaments. s\ender, hypogynous. Disk 0. Styles 3, slender ; ovules numerous, 



Capsule broadly ovoid, shorter than the sepals, 6-valved, inserted by a very narrow base. 



Seedi (unripe) apparently solitary, large, muricate. 



SECT. IV. Larbreea, St. Nil. Sepals more or less connate at the base 

 into an obconic tube. Stamens 8-10, perigynous ; filaments linear or subu- 

 late, not suddenly dilated at the base. Own/ 1 -celled ; styles 3, rarely 4. 

 Capsule 4-6-valved; valves entire. /Seeds numerous. Usually flaccid laxly 

 caespitose herbs. 



* More or less pubescent woolly or silky. 



12. S. lanata, Hook.j.; stems slender decumbent glabrous below, 

 branches pedicels sepals and leaves beneath densely woolly, leaves 

 s] (reading and recurved linear-oblong, sepals small oblong acute, petals 

 minute, stamens 8, styles 3, capsule twice as long as the sepals. 



SIKKI.M HIMALAYA, alt. 9-14,000 ft., in gravelly places, /. 1). II. 



Stems laxly tufted, very slender, 8-12 in., In-low c\lindric and shining; branches 

 4-angled and 1< -avcs beneath clothed with snow-white soft wool. J. caves $ ; t in.. 

 or subcordate at the base, opaque above, 1-nerved. narrowed to tin- p in 1 , but hardly 

 acuminate, dull green. Cymes few-flowered, terminal. Flotn r* ~ in. diam. : pedicels 

 rather longer than the leaves, erect in fruit, rarely ddfloxed. X> jiaf* with narrow- 

 s-carious margins. }'< tuh very oliscnn-, 'J fid or 2-partite, lobes slender. Ca^nle- oblong- 

 ovoid, 4-6-valved. Seeds brown, renitonn, granulate. 



13. S. long-issima, Wall. Cat. 032; stems slender decumbent glabrous 

 below, branches pedicelfl and leaves softly silky, leaves sessile linear-oblong 

 or -lanceolate spreading or recurved, pedicels slender, sepals narrow - 

 lanceolate equalling the 2- partite petals, stamens in, capsule shorter than 

 tlie sepals 5-cleft. S. pati-ns, Dnn J'r<><//-. -2\~>. S. Fenzliana and S. niollis, 

 Klotzsch in Hot. Re'ts. /'/-. 1 1 "//A A-///. ].. 141, t. 29. 



TKMIM:I:.\TE HIMALAYA, alt. 8-12,000 ft., from Sikkim, J. 1>. //., to Sirninr, 

 Jacquemo-nt. 



Stems 6-18 in., much-branched, laxlv tufted, oylindric bolow, 4-angh-d above, upper 

 parts and leaves on both surfaces and peduncles clothed with long lax silky hairs. Leaves 

 J l^,in.j sessile, acute, flat, opaque, 1 -nerved. Plntrcr* !, in. diam., axillary or in ter- 

 minal few flowered cymes; peduncle erect, -1 in. : bracts with sc.irions e<]ges. 

 J in., glabrous, with broad scarious margins. Pituls with rather broail seirnn n's, 

 usually deejily 2-jiartite. Filuniriitx slender. C(ij>sitlc. ovoid, o valved. Stem dark- 

 bi-own, minute, turgid, tnberded. Kloi/sch's /.. / - nzlii is distinguished by the more 

 deeply divided petals and by being less pubescent. 



14. S. saxatilis, IltmtUt. in Wall. Cat. 034; stem long decumbent 

 shining, upper parts densely soft tomentose, leaves subsessile ovate ellij)tic 

 or oblong rarely cordate acute tomentose on both surfaces, cymes axillary, 

 sepals tomentose exceeding the :i-partite petals, stamens 10, styles 3-4, 

 capsules equalling the sepals. Don J'/'mfr. 215. 



TKMPKRATE EASTKKN and CENTRAL HIMALAYA; Nipal, W/iJlt'ch; Bhotan, in wet 

 places, alt. 5-7000 ft., Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft., tiimom, &c. DI.STIMIJ. 

 Java, Siberia, Japan. 



Stems 2-3 ft., laxly tufted, cylindric ; pubescence of the upper parts, leaves and inflo- 

 rescence close dense almost woolly, sometimes very thick and closely apprcssed. Leaves 

 ^-li in., sessile or very shortly petioled, midrib faint. Cymes on slender peduncles, 

 u-ually from the forks, very slender, subumbellately branched, pedicels 1-1 ^ in., diva- 

 ricating; bracts linear-subulate. Flowers | in. diam. Sepals almost woolly, oblong, 

 acute, margin very narrowly membranous. Petals 2-partite. Filaments slender, 

 Capsule 5-valved. Seeds almost black, tubercled. Some Bhotan specimens have very 



