220 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 
dense induta. Pedunculi omnes radicales 1-flori, fructiferi ad 
5 cm. alti, dense albo-pilosi. Sepala circ. 1 cm. longa, oblonga, 
obtusa, densissime et longiuscule albo-pilosa, scarioso-marginata. 
Petala circ. 2 cm. longa rosea, ungue calycem aequante, lamina 
obovata breviter emarginata vel subintegra minute erosula. 
Stigma ovario aequilatum. Siliqua 4.5-5.5 cm. longa, I-I.5 
cm. lata, ovato-oblonga, marginibus incrassata, undique plus 
minusve albo-pilosa ; stigma breviter bilobulum ; semina matura 
pauca 5-6 late ovalia, multo compressa, circ. 5 mm. longa. 
“China :—At A-tun-tsu, N.W. Yunnan. Alt. 15,000 ft. 
July 1911.” F.K. Ward. No. 55. 
“ China :—Yunnan, in open situations on boulders and 
cliffs on the Bei-ma-Shan, Mekong-Yangtze divide. Lat. 
eee N. Alt. 14,500 ft. Plant of 3-4 inches. In fruit. 
Aug. 1914.” G. Forrest. No. 13,235. 
“* Yunnan, on open stony hillsides on the Bei-ma Shan. Lat. 
28°12’ N. Alt. 14,000 ft. Tufted plant of 1-2inches. Flowers 
soft rose, fragrant. June 1g17.”’ G. Forrest. No. 13,980. 
“On the Bei-ma Shan. In immature fruit. July 1917.” 
G. Forrest. No. 14,435. 
A species well distinguished by the hairy linear leaves and 
the hairy ovate-oblong siliqua, 
3\6*" Silene (Melandryum) bilingua, W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 
cies affinis S. rubicundae, Franch. et S. trachyphyllae, 
Franch. ; foliis linearibus, petalorum ungue in auriculas latas 
erosulas flabellatim dilatato, lamina in lobos duos praelongos 
lineares producta inter alia signa bene notata. 
Planta elata ad 60 cm. alta, perennis, satis bene foliosa. 
Radices numerosae fusiformi-incrassatae, ad caudicem squamis 
indutae. Caules 1-2, erecti, graciles, ramis subpatentibus ramosi, 
infra minute et sparsius pilosuli, supra densiuscule glanduloso- 
pilosuli. Folia basalia non visa; caulina breviter connata, 
in petiolum indistinctum attenuata, 2-3 cm. longa, I-1I.5 mm. 
lata, linearia, apice acuta haud apiculata, membranacea, ad 
sim minute ciliata, ceteroquin glabra vel subglabra.  In- 
florescentiae terminales laxae ad 12 cm. longae ad 10 cm. latae, 
dichotome cymosae, 7-20-florae ; bracteae circ. 1 cm. longae, 
lineares, ultimae minutae subulatae, omnes glanduloso-pilosulae ; 
pedicelli inferiores calyce paulo longiores glandulosi. Calyx 
Io-I2 mm. longus, tubuloso-campanulatus, basi paulo con- 
strictus, in sicco purpurascens, ad sixtam partem in lobos 
_triangulares obtusiusculos divisus, extra ad nervos plus minusve 
Same aera Petala circ. 1.5 cm. longa, calycem paulo 
tia, pallido-rosea, ungue glabro in auriculas latas bene 
eros flabe bellatim dilatato et supra subito contracto in limbum 
