XVIII. cAHYOPHYLLBiE. (Edgewortli & Hook, f.) 213 



Subtribe 3. Lychnide^. Capsule bursting by short or long valves. 

 Hilum lateral ; embryo annular. 



Calyx 5-nerved. Capsule Icelled, deeply 4-valved ; styles 2-3 4. Gypsophila. 



Calyx veined. Capsule shortly 4- valved ; styles 2 .... 5. Saponaeia. 

 Calyx lO-oo -nerved. Capsule partially 3-celled, shortly 3-6- 



valved ; styles B 6. Silene. 



Calyx 10- nerved. Fruit fleshy; styles 3 7. Cuouealus. 



Calyx 10-nerved. Capsule shortly 4-5- or 8-10-valved ; styles 5 8. Lychnis. 



Tktbe II. Alsinese. Sepals free, or connate at the base only. Petals 

 subsessile and stamens inserted on an annular disk, rarely perigynous. 

 Styles free. 



* Stipules 0. Sepals free. Stamens hypogynous. 



Petals jagged. Capsule cylindric or conic, 6-valved. Styles 3. 

 Seeds many, compressed 9. Holosteum. 



Petals notched or entire. Capsule cylindric or conic, 8-10- 

 valved. Styles 3-5, opposite the sepals. Seeds many . . 10. Cerastium. 



Petals 2-fid. Capsule globose ovoid or oblong. Styles 3-5. 



Seeds few or many . . .- 11. Stellaria. 



Petals entire. Capsule depressed, 1-seeded Styles 2 . . .12. Brachysxemma. 



Petals entire or lacerate. Capsule of Stellaria. Styles usually 

 2-8. Seeds many 13. Aeenaria. 



Petals entire, minute or 0. Capsule 4-5-valved. Stamens and 

 styles 4 or 5 opposite the sepals 14. Saoiha. 



** Stipules 0. Sepals connate helaw into an ohconic tube, hearing the 

 stamens. 

 Petals 0. ' 15. Thylaoospeemum. 



*** Stipules scarious. Sepals free. 



Petals entire. Styles 3 or 5. Capsules 3- or 5-valved . . 16. Speeqdla. 



Tribe III. Folycarpeae. Sepals free. Petals subsessile and stamens 

 inserted on an annular disk. Styles 3-2, combined. Stipules scarious, rarely 

 obsolete. 



Sepals not keeled. Petals 2-6-fid 17. Dkymaria. 



Sepals keeled. Petals entire. Style 3-fid 18. Polyoaepok. 



Sepals scarious, not keeled. Stigma 3-tootbed 19. PoLYCAEP.ffiA. 



1. DIANTHVS, Linn. 



Herbs, usually perennial. Leaves linear. Flowers terminal, solitary or in 

 panicled cymes. (7aZ2/a; tubular, 5-toothed, nely striated (with 7-9 or 11 

 nerves to each tooth) ; base embraced by 2 or more imbricating bracts. 

 Petals with a long claw ; blade entire or tooth ?d or fimbriate, claw without 

 a scale. Stamens 10. Bisk a long-stalked gynophore. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 styles 2. Capsule cylindric oblong or ovoid, 4-tonthed or valved. Seeds 

 orbicular or discoid, plane or concave, imbricated ou the columnar placenta ; 

 embryo straight, excentric. — Distkib. Species about 70, natives of the 

 N. temp, zone exclusive of Western N. America. 



D. chinensis L. (/>. glaucus, Hb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 656) is commonly cultivated in 

 India. 



