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Herbs, erect with Opposite Exsxipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals Ununited. 



Silene Webbiana, 



CARYOPHYLLACEyE. 



P. B. I. i. 220. 

 Himalaya, Sirmur. 



medium size, slender, very like Silene viridiflora 

 Linn., leaves 1~ in. broad, stem leaves ovate 

 stem-clasping, long-pointed, 5-9-nerved ; flowers 

 greenish white, drooping in loose opposite long- 

 stalked clusters, calyx f in., very slender, 10 nerved 

 swollen in fruit, teeth with thin edges, petals long, 

 blade divided, lobes strap-shaped, scales 2, styles 8 ; 

 capsule cylindric, oblong ; other characters like the 

 last species. 



Cucubalus baecifer, 



Caryophyllack.e. 

 F. B. I. i. 221. 

 Himalaya, o-8,000 ft. 



medium size, rambling, velvety with curly white 

 hairs ; leaves 1-2 by f-1 in., ovate lanceolate, short- 

 pointed, thin with scattered hairs, narrowed into 

 the stalk, upper leaves sessile ; flowers greenish 

 white, nodding in 1-3 flowered loose leafy clusters 

 or solitary in the forks of the branches, calyx g- in., 

 5-toothed, broadly bell-shaped, 10-nerved, base- 

 rounded, teeth large, broad, nearly short-pointed, 

 petals 5, 2 lobed, stalk narrow toothed at the top, 

 blade of petal with 2 scales at the base, stamens 10, 

 styles, 8 ; capsule round, black, the size of a pea, 

 tip crowned with a projection, shining, dry or 

 (leshy, becoming thin, seeds minute, many, kidney- 

 shaped with a lateral depression. 



Lyghnls tero'iai'ia, medium size, perennial, covered with white wool, 



Cakyophyllace.e. sparingly branched ; leaves 8-5 in., lanceolate with 



V. B. I. i. "J2'J. a broad tip narrowed to the stalk, stem leaves 



Kashmir, Valley in oblong ; flowers red purple, on long stalks, calyx 



groves and fields f-1 in., top-shaped, 10-nerved, teeth 5, twisted to 



(Jacquemont). the left, petals 5, 1 in. or more in length, with 2- 



toothed stiff scales at the stalk, heart-shaped with 



a notch at the margin, broad, stamens 10, styles o ; 



capsule nearly sessile, within the calyx, 5-valved, 



valves with an even margin, seeds many, doubly 





