Plants of the Punjab. 



149 



Heebs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Arenaria Meyeri, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 236. 

 N.-W. F. Pro\ince. 

 Peshawar (Stewart). 

 Baluchistan. 



Petals ununited. 



as long as the sepals, stamens 10, slender, styles 8, rarely 

 4 ; capsule broadly ovoid,^4-6-valved, valves undivided, 

 equal in length to the sepals, seeds many, very granulate. 



small, annual, covered with spreading glandular 



hahs, stem cylmdiic, branches in parallel clusters ; leaves 



1 



1.1 



4 2 



in., linear, awl-shaped, recm-ved ; flowers I in. diam., 



Arenaria foliosa, 



Caryophyllace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 236. 

 Himalaya, 

 9-13,000 ft. 



v,iiite, in clusters, sepals 5, | in. long, green, erect, rigid, sharp, 

 margins wliite, petals 5, very short, ovate-oblong, not 

 divided, stamens 5-7, styles 3 ; capsule oblong, much shorter 

 than the sepals, 3-valved, seeds many, red-brown, round, 

 notched, flattened. 



small, perennial, quite smooth, branched from the 

 base, slender, leafy ; leaves ^-f by -^ in., spreading, never 

 stiff or sharp, very narrow, linear, bright green ; flowers 

 I in. diam., white, on the long-stalked, almost umbelled, 

 clusters, bracts and bracteoles leathery, concave, short- 

 pointed, caljx rounded and not thickened at the base, 

 sepals 5, ^ in., leathery, sharp, petals 5, longer than the 

 sepals, stamens 5, styles 3 ; capsules ovoid, larger than the 

 sepals, valves 3, recurved, seeds many, small, pale brown, 

 kidney-shaped, granulate on the back. 



Arenaria kashmirica, very like the last species, but glandular, velvety, 



Caryophyllace^. leaves stiffer and sharper, flowers smaller with longer 



F. B. I. i. 236. petals. 



Himalaya, 



6-7,000 ft. 



Lahul (Jaeschke). 



Arenaria 

 holosteoides, 



Kakua, gandial. 

 Caryophyllace^. 

 F.B.Li. 241. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-12,000 ft. 

 Murree (Douie). 

 Baluchistan 

 (Boissier). 



large, slender, pliable, smooth or velvety, much- 

 branched ; leaves 1-3 in., linear or linear-oblong, sessile, 

 base broad, short- or long-pointed ; flowers |-^ in. diam., 

 white, nodding in few-flowered clusters, flower stalks 

 slender, widely separated, no bracts, calyx not thickened 

 at the base, sepals 5, blunt, linear-lanceolate to broadly 

 ovate-o.blong, greon with thin- edges, smooth or very hairy 

 and glandular at the back, petals 5, equal to or longer 

 than the sepals, tip with a shallow notch, broad, stamens 

 5, styles 2-3, thread-like, long ; capsule nearly round, 

 shorter than the calyx, very thin, 2-6 valved to the base, 

 seeds I, red brown or blackish, with rows of sharp tuber- 

 cles. 



