224 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 
2-3.5 cm. longa, 6-11 mm. lata, plerumque oblanceolata, apice 
breviter acutata et apiculata, basi cuneata, margine minute 
asperata, membranacea, ad basim albido-ciliolata, ad costam 
prominulam sparsim pilosula, ceteroquin glabra vel subglabra, 
nervis obsoletis ; superiora multo minora lineari-lanceolata vel 
linearia, tandem in bracteas lineares vel subulatas circ. 5 mm. 
longas transeuntia. Inflorescentiae terminales laxe paniculato- 
dentatis ; squamae faucis nullae. Staminum filamenta glabra. 
Ovarium anguste oblongum uniloculare parietum vestigiis in- 
structum gynophoro brevius stylis tribus praeditum. Capsula 
ovato-oblonga, alte trilocularis, gynophorum aequans. 
‘“‘ China :—Mekong-Salween divide, Yunnan, in open stony 
pasture. Lat. 28° 10’ N. Alt. 6000-7000 ft. . Plant of 12-20 
inches. Flowers rose-pink. August 1917.” G. Forrest. No. 
14,609. 
aigtt Silene grandiflora, Franch., var. xerobatica, W. W. Sm. 
Var. nov. 
A typo habitu nano, foliis linearibus circ. 2 mm. latis, calyce 
corollaque minoribus recedit. Structura calycis laminaeque 
corollinae squamarumque cum ea typi congruit. Capsula deest. 
“ China :—Yunnan, on the Tong Shan in the Yangtze bend. 
Lat. 27° 20’ N. Alt. gooo ft. Plant of 6—12 inches. Flowers 
pale vermilion. Dry stony pasture. Sept. 1913." G. Forrest. 
No. 10,995. : 
Ai? Silene (Melandryum) kermesina, W. W.Sm. Sp. nov. 
a Species affinis S. platyphyllae, Franch. a qua calycis corol- 
laeque forma longe distat. 
Planta elata ad 60 cm. alta, bene foliosa, perennis. Caules 
I-3, in sicco straminei, ramosi, erecti, graciles, pilis parvis albidis 
conspeél Folia sessilia vel rarius petiolo circ. 1 mm. longo 
