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Heres, erect with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leap Margins Entire. 



Stellaria bulbosa, 



CaR,YOPIIYLLA0E.E. 



F. B. I. i. 231. 



Himalaya, 6-9,000 ft. 

 Jama to Murree, 



(Jacquemont). 

 Hazara (Barrett.) 



Petals Ununited. 



small, smooth, root stock creeping, bearing small 

 round underground branches with buds or eyes, 

 stein slender, erect, unbranched with a line of hairs ; 

 leaves 2-6 pairs, 1-1^ ins. long, ovate with a broad 

 tip or unequally lanceolate, hardly short pointed, 

 rather fleshy, sessile or narrowed into a stalk, 

 margins rarely hairy ; flowers of two kinds, the 

 lower on the plant from slender stalks being minute 

 without petals bearing ripe seeds, the nearly large 

 flowers, -§ in. diam., rarely producing seed, sepals 

 4 or 5, green, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, -|-§ in,. 

 shorter than the petals, petals 4 or 6, white, ovate 

 oblong, shortly 2-lobed, stamens 10, with purple 

 anthers, styles 2, thread-like ; capsule 8-angled, 

 valves 4 divided to the base, seeds few, largo, 

 furnished with excrescences on the surface. 



Stellaria glauca, 



Caryophyllace.e. 

 F. B. I. i. 233. 

 Himalaya, Lahoul, 

 (Jaeschke). 



medium size, perennial, slender, quite smooth, 

 stem quadrangular ; leaves 1-2 ins. long, sessile, 

 oblong or linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, base 

 rounded, margins thickened ; flowers f-f in. diam., 

 white on nearly solitary terminal rather stout 

 straight stalks, bracts thin, sepals 4 or 5, more or 

 less united at the base, linear-oblong, long or short- 

 pointed, green, petals 4 or 5, broad, 2-lobed, twice 

 as long as the sepals, stamens 10, slender, styles 3, 

 rarely 4 ; capsule broadly ovoid, 4-6 valved, valves 

 undivided, equal in length to the sepals, seeds 

 many, very granulate. 



Arenaria Meyeri, 



CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 



F. B. I. i. 236. 

 N.-W. F. Province, 

 Peshawur, (Stewart). 

 Baluchistan. 



small, annual, covered with spreading glandular 

 hairs, stem cylindric, branches in parallel clusters ; 

 leaves |-| in., linear, awl-shaped, recurved ; flowers 

 | in. diam., white in clusters, sepals 5, 5 in. long, 

 green, erect, rigid, sharp, margins white, petals 5, 

 very short, ovate-oblong, not divided, stamens 5-7, 



