Circaa.] LXII. ONAGRACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 589 



4. CZH.C232A, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, sinuate-dentate, membranous. 

 Flowers small, white, pedicelled, in terminal 'and lateral peduncled racemes, 

 .iinally lax ; pedicels spreading-, with minute-subulate (or 0) bracts at their base. 

 Calyx-tube ovoid, scarcely produced above the ovary, limb bipartite. Petals 2, 

 obcordate, 2-lobed, epigynous. Stamens 2, epigynous. Ovary inferior, 1-2- 

 celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate almost 2-lobed ; ovules attached to the 

 inner angle of the cells, solitary or rarely 2 superimposed. Fruit small, pyri- 

 forrn, subcoriaceous, indehiscent, 1-2-celled. Seeds 1 in each cell, ellipsoid, 

 ])ISTEIB. Species 2 or 3, in subarctic and cool temperate regions of the northern 

 hemisphere, extending southwards to the tropics on mountains. 



1. C. lutetiana, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 63; leaves ovate-lanceolate more 

 or less pubescent not pellucid, fruit 2-seeded narrowed at the base patent-de- 

 flexed shorter than its pedicel covered with long hooked hairs. Lanik. III. t. 

 16, fig. 1; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 753. 0. repens, Wall. Cat. 6341. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA from KITMAON to SIKKIM, alt. 7000-10,000 ft. ; Watticii, 

 Major Madden, J. D. H., T. Thomson; examples few. DISTRIB. The northern hemi- 

 sphere, extending south to near the tropic of Cancer. 



Stems 1-2 ft,, erect or decumbent at the base only, puberulous or pubescent. 

 Leaves 2 by 1-1^ in., loug.-petioled, rounded or narrowed at the base. Bracts 0. 

 Petals white or pinkish. Fruit in., obovoid, the hooked hairs usually longer than 

 half the width of the fruit. The C. repens of "Wallich agrees closely with the 

 European common type ; the stem is decumbent for a short space at the base only. 



2. C. cordata, Royle III. t. 43 ; leaves ovate-lanceolate cordate at the 

 base more or less pubescent not pellucid, fruit 2-seeded broad-elliptic patent- 

 deflexed little longer than broad from a broad rounded unequal base covered 

 with long hooked hairs, not shorter than its pedicel. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Royle ; alt. 7000-8000 ft. ; T. Thomson. KASHMIR, C. B. 

 Clarke. SIMLA, Jacquemont ; DALHOUSIE, Chumba, alt. 7000-9000 ft. plentiful. C. B. 

 Clarke. DISTRIB. Mandshuria, Japan. 



Stems 1-2 ft., stouter and more hairy than of E. lutetiana, erect. Leaves 3-^ by 

 2 in., sometimes larger; petiole often l in. Bracts. Petals yellow (ex Royle) 

 and appear so in the dried examples. Fruit scarcely ^ in., nearly or quite as much 

 broad, the two carpels at the base generally descending unequally on the pedicel. 



3. C. alpina, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 63; leaves ovate glabrous or slightly 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from KASHMIR to SIKKIM, alt. 7000-11,000 ft., not rare. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 4500-6000 ft. NILGHIRIS and Pulney Mts., alt. 7000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 The Temperate Northern hemisphere. 



'Erect, 6-8 in., typically nearly glabrous. Leaves | in., and about equally broad, 

 long-petioled, rounded or cordate at the base, often deeply sinuate-toothed subangu- 

 lose, glabrous or pubescent on the nerves. Bracts minute, subulate, sometimes ob- 

 scure. Petals white. Fruit less than in , obovoid, sometimes nearly glabrous, 

 sometimes with many hooked hairs, but the hairs neither so many yellow nor long as 

 commonly are those of C. lutetiana. 



VAR. himalaica; stem taller 10-18 in., leaves much larger l- in. more pubescent 

 not pellucid. In the Himalaya only ; the type of Wallich's C. intermedia. This plant 

 has only one seed to the fruit and differs only in trivial characters from C. alpin*. 



