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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Lychnis Stewartii, 



Caeyophyllacete. 

 F. B. I. i. 224. 

 Himalaya, Upper 

 Chenab and 

 Chamba Eiver, 

 8-11,000 ft. 

 (Stewart). 



Petals ununited. 



small, stiff, slender, upper part sticky and woolly, 

 leafy ; leaves 2 by y'g-y^in., very narrow, linear, spreading, 

 1 -nerved, keeled by the stout mid-rib, margins turned 

 in ; flowers -| in. long, white, nodding, sohtary or in 

 opposite pairs with 2 linear bracts above the middle, in 

 the upper leaf axils, calyx | in. long, oblong, velvety, nerves 

 green faint, free or united, teeth 5, rounded, edges thin 

 with long curled hairs, petals 5, heart-shaped with a 

 notched margin, blade very short, scales 2, notched, di- 

 vided into two, curved back, stalk very broad with a 

 tooth on each side, petals projecting beyond the calyx, 

 stamens 10, styles 3, very short ; capsule ovoid, projecting 

 out of the calyx, 10-fid, stalk woolly. 



Lychnis indica, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 225. 

 Himalava, 

 5-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Ohanglagalli 

 (Douie). 



medium size, leafy, branches dividing into forked 

 pairs, very slightly velvety ; leaves 1-5 by ^-2| in., ovate- 

 lanceolate to orbicular, lower leaves stalked ; flowers 

 creamy white inside and purplish outside, erect or nod- 

 ding in open or close many-flowered branching sticky 

 hairy clusters, stalks without bracts, calyx |-f in. long, 

 velvety, bell-sha])ed, nerves 10-15, simple or branched, 

 teeth 5, broad, blunt, rarely short-pointed, petals 5, much 

 longer than the calyx, blade 2-fid or divided into several 

 processes, 2 erect crisped scales at the base of the blade, 

 forming with other petal scales a crowai over which the 

 anthers project, stamens 10, styles 5, twisted, silvery ; 

 capsule ovoid, teeth 5, simple or bifid, stalk short, vel- 

 vetv, seeds many, minute, very dark, kidney shaped, granu- 

 late. 



Lychnis nutans, 



CaRYOPHYLLACE.:^. 



F. B. I. i. 225. 

 Himalava. 

 9-12,000 ft. 

 Murree, Hattu 

 (Collett). 



Lychnis pilosa, 



Caryophyllace.^;. 

 F. B. I. i. 220. 

 Himalaya, 

 9-12,000 ft. 



very like the last species, but smaller, calyx more 

 rounded and shorter, petals purple and blade shorter and 

 less divided. 



very lilce the last species, but covered with lonsr 

 hairs and the seeds with longer projections. 



