240 xviii. CARYOPHYLLM. (Edg-eworth & Hook, f.) [An 



16. A. orbiculata, Roylemss.; biennial or perennial?, brandies very 

 slender nearly glabrous decumbent, leaves sessile or shortly petioled orbi- 

 cular or elliptic obtuse or apiculate 1-nerved, petiole ciliate, sepals ovate or 

 lanceolate 1-nerved glabrous. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Bhotan, Griffith, and Sikkim, alt. 8-13,000 ft., to 

 Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft. 



Much more slender and less dichotoniously branched than .1. ierpytUfolfa, to which 

 it is closely allied. Branches 2-10 in., thinly pubescent chiefly on one side. Leaves 

 - in., nearly glabrous, tflowtn solitary or in few-flowered cymea. Sepals about 

 | in., nerve often faint. Petal* shorter than the sej - many, smooth. Appa- 



rently very near the West A-iatic J. r.,////aJ/>;,//,/. M. Ui.-h. (Boise. Fl. Orient, i. 7UO), 

 but the branches do not root, and the cynics ure much fewer-llowered. 



** Flowers sol if 'try. Unmtllij *///// t>- flowered alj><n> 



17. A. ciliolata, Edgew.; perennial, hairy, eglawlular, laxly tuft eel, 

 stems short leafy pubescent, leaves ovate or oblong acute cuspidate or acu- 

 minate nerveless fringed with 1'iig nexnous jointed hairs, flowers large 

 solitary sessile or shortly pedieelled, sepals lanceolate acute ciliate shorter 

 than the broadly obovate white petals. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; alt. lf> 17JMH) ft., ./. J). If. 



.iiial, forming rat In.- r lax patches; roots fibrous. Xt<-ms matted, 2 -?, in., with 

 2 obscure linos of haii - I -pleading, ] in., sometimes elliptic, rather thick, 



ob-cinrly 1-nerve.d, shining wh'-n old, margin obscurely tliickciinl, hairs brown wlicn 

 ilry, sometiir ; ovet tin- surfaces, but cliielly c.iiitined to the margin. / 



nearly A in. diam. ; pt-dic.-U sliorter thin th" lcavf<, very 



(_'alt/.i- rather rounde 1 at the ba-' : ,-epals of the texture of the ],,. hardly 



menihranoiis, nerve oh>einv. J'.tt/'n with rounded ti[s. /'// um-iit* siihiilat.-. ||.,- 



connate at the ha- imperfect, small, globose, 6- Tal red. 



18. A. g-landulig-era. .. densely glandular-pubescent, stems 

 short laxly tufted suberect, loaves lax ovate or elliptic-oblong acute or 

 acuminate flat, nerves obscure, ilowers solitary pediivlled terminal eivt i.r 

 inclined, calyx rounded at the base, sepals spreading and recurved linear 

 acute or obtuse glandular much smaller than the obovate rosy petal 



sule G-valved shorter than the sepals. 



ALI-INK HIMALAYA; Kashmir, Fnlrum-r ; T-arji Kang pass, Kumaon, alt. 14.500 ft., 

 8trm-h. t(: }\"iut.: int.'rior of Sikkim, ah. 1 l-is.iion ft., './. I). II. 



Allied to J. i-;ii "lulu, and of the same habit, hut smaller and densely glandnlar- 

 pubescent, without the long BeXUOOS articulate hairs of that plant, liavinu' also mir h 

 smaller Ilowers. Si cm* numerous from the root, J-'2 in., rather stout shining and 

 irlabrons below, laxly leafy. Ltar.rx ( ' ; \ in., jiale grocn, glandular on both M; 

 soft, opaque, margins hardly thickened. / \ in. diam.; pedicel usually 



shorter, slender, Calyx thickened at the base; sepals with membranous m 

 i'UaiiHiit* flattened and united at the base in a glandular ring. Styles 3. ' 

 membranous, few-seeded. Seeds pale. 



19. A. Stracheyi, Edgew.; quite glabrous, stems short laxly tufted 

 suberect, leaves lax narrow linear-oblong acute or acuminate flat, nerv 

 scure, flowers solitary pedicelled terminal erect or inclined, sepals suberect 

 lanceolate acuminate smaller than the obovate petals, capsule 6-valved 

 shorter than the sepals. 



WKSTKKN TIBET, north of Kumaon, near Eakas Tal, alt. 15,500 ft., Strac/t. & 

 Winterh. : Ladak, Stewart. 



This belongs to the same group as A. glandvligera and ciliolata, and may be recog- 

 nised by being perfectly glabrous. Stem* 1-2 in., ascending, simple. Leaves fleshy, 



