PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB, 



471 



Herbs, erect with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals Ununited. 



thin papery margins, petals with the blade divided, 

 lobes linear, stalk with a tooth on each side, scales 

 2, small, lanceolate ; capsule oblong, the style stalk 

 equal to the capsule ; for other characters, see the 

 last species. 



Silene tenuis, 



Caryophyllaoe^e. 

 F. B. I. i. 219. 

 Himalaya, 8-12,000 ft. 



small, perennial, smooth or sticky with glands, 

 many stems from the root, slender unbranched ; 

 leaves 1-3 in., short or long-pointed, narrow, linear 

 or lauceolate, often with scattered hairs, flat, 

 radical leaves slightly broadened upwards, flowers 

 i in. long, dirty yellow or brown, often in a circle 

 in short racemes, stalks £-i in., bracts short, in a 

 circle, awl shaped, calyx bell-shaped ^-i in., thin, 

 base rounded or abrupt, 10 nerved, teeth blunt, 

 spreading, petals divided, stalk with two teeth, 

 hairy, scales short oblong ; capsule oblong, seeds 

 with o dorsal and lateral rows of tubercles ; other 

 characters like the last species. 



Silene Griffith!!, 



Caryophyllaoe.e. 

 F. B. I. i. 220. 

 Himalaya, 7-11,000 ft. 



medium size, perennial, stout, velvety or hairy, 

 stems divided or not ; leaves 2|-4 by f-lj in., 

 radical leaves lanceolate with a broad tip ending in 

 a broad stalk, stem leaves oblong, sessile, velvety 

 on both surfaces ; flowers white in opposite axillary 

 irregularly 3-flowered clusters, shortly stalked, 

 calyx f-1 in. long, cylindric, barely dilated above 

 except in fruit, teeth short-pointed, not bordered 

 with white, nerves 10, green, base rounded or 

 abrupt, petals deeply 2-lobed, lobes divided into 

 3-6 parts, no scales, no teeth on stalks of petals ; 

 capsule oblong, ovary shortly stalked, seeds minute, 

 sides flat or convex, back grooved ; other characters 

 like the last species. This plant is used in Lahoul 

 with an alkali as a substitute for soap. 



