Stellaria.} xvin. CARYOPHYLLEJE. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 235 



petals equalling the 5 sepals Kumaon, alt. 12-13,000 ft., Str. & Wint. (with S. <& W. 

 No. 6). 



VAR. 5. pulvinata; forming dense globose or cushion-like masses, opaque or shining, 

 leaves densely imbricate ovate-subulate or the lower obl6ng and rounded at the tip 

 usually ciliate, sepals 4-5 coriaceous. Garwhal, at great elevations, 16-18,000 ft., 

 Str. & Wint. ; WESTERN TIBET, T. Thomson ; Sikkim, /. D. H. 

 b. Flowers cymose. 



VAR. 6. polyantlia ; tufts dense shining, stem stout, leaves \\ in., ovate- or lanceo- 

 late-subulate ciliate or pubescent, cymes sessile many-flowered, sepals 5, petals minute. 

 Kashmir, Royle; Sikkim, J .D. H. 



VAR. 7. acicularis ; stems lax and leaves very shining, leaves erecto-patent rigid 

 narrow subulate-lanceolate keeled, margins smooth, cymes peduncled lax many- 

 flowered, bracts large concave scarious, sepals 4-5, petals minute. Sikkim, at Tungu, 

 alt. 12-14,000 ft. 



12. BHACHYSTEIVZMA, Don. 



A diffuse subscandent branching herb. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 

 numerous, in axillary or terminal panicles. S?pals 5,subscarious. Petals 5, 

 minute, narrow and quite entire. Stamens 10, 5 without anthers. Ovary 

 1-celled styles 2; ovules 4. Capsule globose, depressed, 4-valved, 1 -seeded. 

 Seed reniform or globose, tuberculate. 



1. B. calycinum, Don Prodr. 646 ; Fend in Endl. Atakt. t. 16. 



TEMPERATE CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 

 4-7000 ft., /. D. H.; Bhotan, Griffith; KHASIA MTS., alt. 3000 ft. 



Glabrous Stems 6-8 ft., clambering amongst bushes, 4-angled, shining, brittle. 

 Leaves lg-3 in., petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous beneath, triple-nerved, mar- 

 gins obscurely crenulate. Cymes 3-6 in., pedicelled, terminating lateral branches 

 or axillary ; bracts linear; pedicels slender. Flowers ^- in. diam. Sepals oblong- 

 lanceolate. Petals, stamens and piatil all very small compared with the scarious sepals. 



13. ARENARIA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial, often tufted herbs. Leaves broad or narrow. 

 Flowers white or pink, solitary or in dichotomous cymes, Sepals 5. Petals 

 5, entire lacerate or retuse, never 2-fid or 2- partite, rarely 0. Stamens 5, 

 perigynous or subhypogynous. Stamens 10, rarely 5, hypogynous or more 

 often inserted on the perigynous lobed or annular disk. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 styles 3-4 (rarely 2) ; ovules usually many. Capsule short, rarely exceeding 

 the sepals, valves 2-6. Seeds compressed or turgid, smooth or tubercled. 

 DISTKIB. Species about 130, all natives of cold and temperate regions. 



A. Capsule with as many valves (usually 3) as there are styles. 



SECT. I. Alsine. Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves in the Indian spe- 

 cies broad fiat. Flowers small, cymose white. Calyx not thickened at the 

 base. Styles 3. Seeds compressed, striate or granulate. 



1. A. trichotoma, Royle mss. ; perennial erect, dichotomously 

 branched, branches long strict spreading finely pubescent, leaves glabrous 

 linear or linear-oblong from a broad sessile base, cymes long peduncled tri- 

 chotomous, pedicels slender, bracts scarious, petals equalling or exceeding 

 the ovate-oblong acute broadly-margined sepals, seeds 3-5 orbicular com- 

 pressed. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kunawar, alt. 8-* 0,000 ft., Jacquemont, Royle, 

 &c. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



.Nearly glabrous, 1-1 ft. Stems rather stout and flexuous at the base ; branches terete, 



