242 xvin. CARYOPHYLLEiE. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Arenaria. 



22. A. Benthami, Edgew.; tall, slender, flaccid, glandular-pilose, much 

 branched, leaves sessile ovate acute hairy on both surfaces, cymes few- or 

 many-flowered, pedicels slender divaricate, sepals oblong- or linear-lanceo- 

 late, petals obovate-spathulate lacerate, capsule 2-6-valved. Adenostemma 

 glandulosum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 645. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kumaon, Blinkworth; Sikkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft., /. />. H. 



Stems 2-3 ft. high, clothed with spreading jointed glandular hairs. Lea rex ;,' I. 1 , in., 

 the lower petioled, midrib indistinct, nerves obsolete, margins ciliate. Cymes peduncled. 

 Flowers in. diam., nodding; pedicels slender, deflexed in fruit, ebracteate. Calyx not 

 thickened at the base; sepals very glandular, erect and recuivcd, prm with narrow 

 membranous margins. Petals longer than the calyx, white. Dul obsolete. Filunn'iit* 

 slender, dilated below, but hardly connate. Sti/le* usually 2, not so capillary as in 

 A. holosteoides. Capsule usually 4-valved, smaller than the calyx. Setdn lew, with a 

 thick spougy opaque hardly tubercled testa. 



23. A. debilis, Ifonk.f. stems solitary or laxly tufted flaccid glan- 

 dular-pilose sparingly branched or simple, leaves .sessile elliptic-ovate ob- 

 tuse hairy especially above, flowers solitary terminal or in fc\v-llo\\erl 

 cymes, pedicels divaricate, sepals linear-lanceolate petals obovate, tip 

 erose. 



ALPINE SIKKIM HIMALAYA; alt. 14-16,000 ft. /. D. II. 



Very like a small form of 'A. J!> itf/xt/iti, but smal'er in all its parts; leaves more ol.- 

 tuse ; flowers not ^ in. diam. : petals not lacerate ;iml broader, merely irregularly tool lied 

 at the tip; filaments much shorter inserted on an evident thickened annular disk 

 Small states come very near A. </l(iiltti;</ira, which howe\er may at once be distin- 

 guished by the large flower acute leave.-, and the petals. 



24. A. tenera, E<1new. ; glabrous or pubescent, stems filiform flaccid in- 

 tricately branches, leaves Long-petioled elliptic or ovate- or oblong-lanceolate 

 acute, flowers small axillary, peiluu-ls capillary, sepals ovate-oblong or lan- 

 ceolate acute half as long as the linear quite entire petals. Lepyrodirlis 

 tenera, Boi**. I- 1 !. <>r' nt. i. ;i;:. 



WI-:SIT.I:X TI:MI-KI:.\TK HIM \i..\v.\; Kishtwar and 15anahal, alt. 6-8000 ft., T. Thom- 

 son. 1) IST IMB. Atll'hanistan. 



A very slender intricately tufted annual, with steins 2-.'{ ft. lou-r. Lmrrx scattered, 

 membranous, ^-f in., petiole often longer than the blade, capillary, l-'lmr, /-\ usually 

 axillary, -| in. diam.; pedici-ls divaricate, ^,-1 in. Xi'juilx vaiiaMe in form, erect and 



conniving in flower, then sprea .in,u r , ciliate at the hack. Petals white, gradually 

 dilate. 1 upwards. Fi/n mnitx very hleinler, hanlly united at the l>a-e. li'ixl; . 

 I'Hjxnle globose, smaller than the sepals, usually 4-vaived and 4-seeded. tfccds sub- 

 gloiinsc, with concentric series of acute tubercles. In the All'ghan specimens lh>- petals 

 aj>pear lacerate, but it is exceedingly difficult to lay them out after being dried without 

 rupturing the apices. 



14. SAGINA, Linn. 



Small annual or perennial herbs. Leaves subulate, connate at the base ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers solitary, small, axillary and terminal, pedicelled. ,SVy*//\ 

 4-5. Petals 4-5, entire or 0. Stamens 4, 5, 8, 10, perigynous. Ovara 

 1-celled ; styles 4-5 (and valves of capsule) opposite the sepals ; ovules 

 numerous. Capsule 4-5-valved to the base. Seeds reniforin. DISTEIB. 

 Temperate regions ; species 8. 



I. S. procumbens, Linn.; perennial, stems many tufted, primary 

 shoots flowerless, lateral slender with fascicled usually procumbent and 

 rooting branches, sepals 4-5 spreading in fruit, petals very small. Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, i. 662. 



