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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erbot, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals ununited. 



Dianthus 

 Caryophyilus, « 

 Carnation, 

 Clove Pink, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 p. B. L i. 214. 

 N.-W. F. Province, 

 Attock (Falconer). 



medium size, perennial, smooth, greyish-green, 

 branched and leafy below, jointed and thickened at the 

 joints ; leaves 4-6 by ^ in., linear, grooved, pointed ; flowers 

 1-1| in. diam., pink, fragrant, in loosely branched clusters, 

 bracts 4, broad, with an abrupt point, much shorter 

 than the calyx, calyx 1-1| in. long, tubular, 5-toothed, 

 petals 5, stalked, smooth, toothed, stamens 10, inserted 

 with the petals, on a long process, styles 2 ; capsule ovoid, 

 4-toothed, seeds discoid, with a central groove. 



Dianthus crinitus, 



Caryophyllacb^. 

 F.B.Li. 215. 

 Salt Eange. 

 N.-W. F. Province. 

 Peshawar. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Hke the last species, but the bracts 4-8 are lanceo- 

 late and long-pointed, branches rigid, clusters few-flowered, 

 petals white, scented, fringed nearly to the base. 



Tunica stricta, 



Caryophyllaceje. 

 F. B. L i. 215. 

 Kashmir. 



medium size, annual, slender, smooth, branched 

 from the base ; leaves radical, ^-|- in. long, numerous, hnear 

 with the tip broad and narrowing to the base, stem leaves 

 linear ; flowers ^ in. long, white, in clusters of very few 

 flowers without bracts on straight slender stalks, calyx 

 5-toothed and ribbed, top-shaped, petals 5, stalked, linear, 

 oblong, margin even, stamens 10, ovary 1 -celled, styles 

 2 ; capsule oblong, opening by 4 teeth, seeds many, boat- 

 shaped, wrinkled on the edges and keel. 



Acanthophyllum 

 macrodon, 



CARYOPHYLLACE.^iJ. 



F.B.Li. 216. 

 N.-W. F. Province. 

 Waziri Hills 

 (Stewart). 



small, perennial, tufted, spinous, minutely velvety ; 

 leaves |-| in. long, pale green, stiff with a hard sharp- 

 pointed tip, horizontal, flat above, convex below, ^77-yL 

 in. diam. at the base ; flowers f in. long, pink, terminal, 

 solitary, bracts 4, linear, with thin papery margins, rough 

 with projecting processes, recurved, calyx cyhndric, 5- 

 toothed, teeth spiny with very narrow, thin, papery mar- 

 gins, petals 5, narrow, long-stalked, stamens 10, styles 2, 

 ovary 1-celled ; capsule ovoid or oblong, 1-2-seeded, seeds 

 almost kidney-shaped, laterally flattened, margin notched. 



