J XVIII. CARYOPHYLLE^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 219 



Pahjab ; Peshawar, Vicary, Stewart. — Distkib. Westwards to Spain. 



^Jem 6-24 in., simple or brancbed. Leaves 1-1 4 in., acnminate, ciliolate. Cymes 

 irregular, loosely racemose; peduncles exceeding the calyx; bracts acute. Calyx 

 J-J in., with broad green hairy nerves ; teeth short. Petals 0, or minute, spathulate, 

 bright red. Seeds flat, channelled, with a double corrugated margin. 



Sect. III. Auricularia. Galyx 10-nerved, contracted towards the 

 base. Petals with the claw toothed or auricled on bi)th sides. — Perennials, 

 flowers solitary or in few-flowered elongate panicled cymes. 



4. S. nioorcroftiana, Wall. Cat. 626; perennial, finely pubescent, 

 canline leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, flowers 1-3 terminal or subter- ' 

 minal, calyx tubular-clavate viscid, base intruded, teeth short obtuse with 

 scarious margins, capsule ovoid shorter than the gynophore. Benth. in 

 Royle III. 79 ; Rohrh. Monog. Silene, 129. 



Western Himalaya, alt. 10-13,000 ft.; from Garwhal to Kashmir. Westeek 

 Tibet, alt. 9-16,000 ft.— Distkib. AfFghanistan. 



Stems many from a woody stock, densely tufted ; flowering branches erect, 6-18 in., 

 slender, simple or dichotomous at the top. Radical leaves spathulate-lanceolate, acute ; 

 cauHne shorter, acuminate acute or obtuse. Flowers erect. Calyx 1-1^ in., slender 

 below the middle ; nerves 1 0, dark. Petals exserted, claw auricled with a long acute 

 tooth ; limb 2-partite, segments ligulate, dirty red or white, involute when withering ; 

 scales 2, long. Capsvle with the gynophore as long as itself. Seeds compressed,' not 

 channelled, with 5 rows of dorsal and as many lateral tubercles. 



Vak. 1. taller, more slender, 2-3-flowered. — Tibet. 



Vae. 2. dwarf, leaves linear, pedicels longer than the bracts. 



5. S. arenosa, C. Koch, in Linncea, xv. 711 ; annual, slender, glaucous, 

 viscid above, leaves narrow, margins revolute, flowers in sparse much- 

 divaricating cymes, calyx clavate, base intruded, teeth lanceolate-ciliate, 

 capsule oblong equalling the gynophore. S. leyseroides and S. salsa, £oiss. 

 Fl. Orient, i. 603. 



Westeek Panjab, common at Peshawur, Attock, &o. Vicary, Stewart. — Disteib. 

 AfFghanistan, Persia, Armenia. 



Very slender, excessively branched from the base, minutely pubescent, glandular 

 above. Leaves shorter than the internodes, |-14 i"', rigid, acuminate. Flowers erect 

 or inclined; pedicels 4-1 in., capillary. Calyx 4-iin i slender, 10-ribbed ; teetli with 

 scarious margins. Petals with an oblong 2-fid blade, lobes linear, claw auricled; 

 scales 2, small, lanceolate. — Flowers open at night. 



6. S. tenuis, WUld.; perennial, glabrous or viscid, leaves narrow 

 linear or lanceolate, flowers in short racemes, calyx campanulate, base 

 rounded or truncate, teeth obtuse, petals 2-partite auricled, capsule oblong, 

 gynophore short. Rohrb. Monog. SUene, 186. S. graminifolia, Olth. in 

 UG. Prodr. i. 368, not of Ledeb. S. Gul.-Waldemarii, Klotzsch Rot. Reis. 

 Pr. Waldem. 140, t. 31. S. repens, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 614 (] of Patrin) : 

 Ledeb. Ic. Fl. ,Ross. t. 425. S. amsena, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1 {not of ed. 2). 



Western Himalaya, alt. 8-12,000 ft., from Kunawar to Kashmir, Jacquemont. 

 Western Tibet, Falconer. — Distrib. Northern and Arctic Asia. 



Stems many from the root, eject or ascending, 4-18 in., slender, simple, naked when 

 taU. Leaves 1-3 in., acute or acuminate, often ciliate, flat, radical slightly dilated 

 upwards. Ftetwers often whorled, sometimes secund, inclined or nodding; pedicels 

 t-f in- ; bracts short, whorled, subulate, palyx J-4 in., membranous, 10-nerved ; teeth 

 spreading. Petals dirty-yellow or brown ; scales short, oblong ; claw ciliate. Capsule 

 twice the length of the gynophore. Seeds with 5 dorsal and as many lateral rows of 

 tubercles. 



Vae. dasyphyta, Turcz. Fl. Baic. Dab. i. 207 (sp.), densely pubescent, leaves more 

 coriaceous not ciliate. Labul, Jceschke. 



