2 14. CARYOPHYLLACEJE. 



15. MOEXCHIA. Sep. 4, erect. Pet. 4, entire. Stam. 4. 

 Caps, many-seeded, opening at the end with 8 or 10 teeth. 



Suborder III. POLYCARPE.E. 

 Sep. distinct. Stam. free. Caps, sessile. Stipules scarious. 



16. POLYCABPOX. Sep. keeled at the back, hooded at the 

 end. Pet. 5, emaryinate. Stam. 3 5. Styles 3, short. 

 Fr. 1-celled, many-seeded. 



17. ALSIXE. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, entire, usually as long as 

 the calyx. Stain. 510. Styles 3 or 5. Fr* 3 5-vafved, 

 many-seeded; valves fewer than or alternate with the 

 sepals. 



18. SPERGULA. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, entire, as long as the calyx. 

 Stam. 5 10. Styles 5. Fr. 5-valved, many-seeded; the 

 valves opposite to the sepals. 



Suborder IV. SCLERANTHE^E. 



Sep. connate, forming a hardened tube enclosing the 1-seeded 

 capsule. No stipules. 



19. ScLEBANTHUS. 1 Tube of calyx vase-shaped, contracted 

 at the mouth by a glandular ring ; limb 5-tid. Pet. 0. 

 Stam. 10 or rarely 5, inserted in the throat of the calyx. 

 Styles 2. Fr. membranous. 



Suborder I. Silenece. 

 " 1. DIAN'THTJS Linn. Pink. 

 * Fl. clustered. 



1. D. prolifer (L.) ; fl. in a dense cluster enveloped in mem- 

 branous bracts, cal.-scales membranous pellucid the two outer ones 

 shorter mucronate, inner ones blunt about equalling the calyx, 

 st. glabrous, 1. all linear, seeds boatshaped with a longitudinal 

 membrane in the hollow rough pointed at one end. E. B. 956. 

 It. vi. 247. St. 1 1J ft. high, erect, usually simple. Fl. ex- 

 panding one at a time, small. Pet. rose-coloured, obcordate. 

 Cluster quite inclosed by brown dry scales. Sandy and gravelly 

 places, very rare. A. VII. E. 



1 Benth. & Hook. Gen. Plant, place Scleranthus in Illecebracece, which 

 order they include in the Division Monochlamydece. H. & J. G. 



