216 xviii. CARYorHYLLE^. (Edgewortli & Hook, f.) [limiea. 



1. T. stricta, £unge ; Boiss. FL. Orient, i. 521 ; annual, erect, leaves 

 linear-spathulate, margins scabrous, cauline linear, flowers subsolitary 

 ebracteate, calyx 5-ribbed. LedA. Ic. Fl. Boss. t. 5. 



Kashmik, Falconer, &c. — Distbib. Soongaria, Altai, Persia, Asia Minor. 



Glabrous, 12-18 in., branched from the base. MaSticxil leaves ^-km., many, short. 

 Cymes strict, and their branches slender quite erect. Flowers J in. long; pedicels 

 often exceeding ' the glabrous turbinate ciilyx. Petals white, linear-oblong, entire. 

 Seeds boat-shaped, wrinkled on the edges and keel. 



3. ACANTSOPHVIiXiTrni, C. A. Meyer. 



Perennial, densely tufted acerose or spiny-leaved herbs or shrubs. Flowers 

 solitary or in panicled or fascicled cymes, the lateral or all with 2-6 bracts. 

 Calyx tubular or turbinate, 5-toothed or lobed, 5-15-nerved. Petals 5, ex- 

 serted, narrow, spathulate ; claw long, widening into the entire or notched 

 limb. /S'taTreejJ^ 10. -Di«i short or produced into a short gyuophore. Ovary 

 1-celled, 4-10-ovuled ; styles 2. Capsule ovoid or oblong, indehiscent or 

 with 4 small teeth, 1-2-seeded. Seeds subreniform, laterally compressed, 

 hilum marginal; embryo annular.— Disteib. About 17 species; natives of 

 Western and Central Asia, most numerous in Affghanistan. 



1. A. macrodon, Edgew. ; hoary, leaves spinous, 'flowers solitary, 

 bracts 4 linear with scarious margins. 



Wazaristan in the Pdnjab, Stewart. — Disteib. Affghanistan, Griffith. 



A tufted excessively spinous herb, minutely pubescent. I/eaves horizontal, J-f in., 

 rigid with acerose tips, pale green, flat above, convex on the back, ts^tht '■'■ diam. at 

 the base. Flowers rosy, f in. long, terminal ; bracts squarrose, pungent, recurved, 

 reaching as high as the calyx-lobes. Calyx cylindric, hoary, lobes subulate-lanceolate, 

 recurved, acerose, with very narrow scarious edges. Petals narrow. 



4. CYFSOFKZZiA, linn. 



Perennial or annual, often glaucous herbs, rarely shrubby. Leaves usually 

 flat, very rarely subulate. Flowers in panicled cymes, rarely solitary in the 

 forks. Calyx turbinate tubular or canipanulate, 5-toothed or -Isbed, with 

 5 broad green nerves and membranous interspaces. Petals 5, claw narrow; 

 limb entire or notched, without (rarely with) a scale. Disk small. Ovary 

 1-celled ; styles 2 (rarely 3); ovules many. Capsule 4-valved to or below 

 the middle, few- or many-seeded. Seeds subreniform, hilum lateral; embryo 

 annular. — Disteib. Species about 50, European and W. Asiatic. 



Sect. I. Fseudacantbopliyllum. Undershrubs. ieaves pungent or 

 acerose. Calyx ovoid or oblong-campanulate. 



1. <5. Ptewartii, Thorns. ; puberulous, leaves i in. subulate acerose, 

 convex beneath, flowers subcapitate, bracts equalling the calyx-tube. 



Wazarislan in the Puhjae, alt. 3-4000 ft., Stewart. — Bistkib. Affghanistan 

 (Turuak valley). 



A small green densely tufted spinous perennial. Leaves spreading, flat above, 

 points glabrous polished. Cymes on sh^jrt peduncles, 8-15flowered; bracts narrow- 

 subulate. CoZya; J in., ovoid, glabrous, 5-ribbed; teeth long, slender, subulate. Petals 

 half as long again as the calyx ; blade pink, linear-oblong. — Closely allied to 6. erinacea, 

 Boiss. (of Affghanistan), but much smaller, with crowded flowers, and glabrous calyces 

 with longer subulate teeth. 



