220 XVIII. CAHYOPHYLLE^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [&7«ne. 



Sect. IV. Otites. Caiyx lO-nerved, cylindric or contracted towards 

 the base. Petals not auricled at the sides, with or without scales at the top 

 of the, claw.— Perennials. Flowers in opposite panicled or racemed cymes. 



7. S. Falconeriana, £enth. in Boyle III. 79, t. 20; perennial, stout, 

 erect, pubescent below, leaves linear-lanceolate serrulate-ciliate, flowers in 

 short uniform opposite cymes, calyx cylindric narrow, base intruded, teeth 

 short obtuse, petals very narrow spathulate, tip rounded or notched, cap- 

 sule ovoid longer than the gynophore. Eohrb. Monog. Silene, 202. 



Western Himalaya, from Kumaon to Kunawar, alt. 3-9000 feet, Boyle, &c. 



Stems 1-2 ft., several from the woody stalk, simple or branched, closely pubescent 

 below. Leaves 1^-2 J in., narrow, pubescent or glabrous on both surfaces. Inflores- 

 cence I-I4 ft. long, lax, of opposite or whorled cymes or branched racemes. _ Flowers 

 erect or inclined; pedicels slender; bracts minute. Calyx ^ in., slightly dilated up- 

 wards in iiower, much so in fruit, membranous, nerves 10, green ; teeth not margiiied 

 with white ; base truncate. Petals white, without scales or auricles. Capsules ovoid, 

 twice or thrice the length of the gynophore. Seeds minute, granulate, sides flat or 

 convex, back channelled. 



8. S. Griffitbii, £oiss. Fl. Orient, i. 637; perennial, robust, densely 

 pubescent tomentose or villous, leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, radical 

 petioled, flowers in opposite few-flowered cymes, calyx cylindric, teeth acute, 

 base rounded or truncate, petals 2-partite, lobes 3-6-fid, scales 0, capsule 

 oblong, gynophore short. S. Webbiana, Wall. Cat. 627. S. multifida, Eagew. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 34. Carpophora Hoffmeisteri, Klottsch in Bat. Htm 

 Pr. Wald. 139, t. 32. S. viscosa, Pers. ; Benth. in Royle III. 79. Melandryum 

 Griffithii, Rohrh. in Linnoea, xxxvi. 248; Monog. SUene, 232. S- viscosa 

 lusus 3, and /8 suaveolens, Kar. <k Kir. (sp.), Rohrb. Monog. SUene, 205. 



Western Himalaya, from Garwhal to Cabul and Kishtwar, alt. 7-11,000 ft. — Dis- 

 TRiB. Afighanistan, Soongaria. 



Very variable in pubescence, from hoary to almost woolly. Stems 12-18 in., simple 

 or divided, very robust. Leaves 2^^ by f-lj in., radical spathulate-lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed into a broad petiole ; cauline sessile, sometimes cordate at the base, more or less 

 pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers in opposite irregularly 3-flowered cymes, shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx |-1 in., glandular, hardly dilated above except in fruit, teeth not 

 margined with white, nerves 10, green. Petals more or less laciniate, without scales or 

 auricles. Petals white. Capsule four times as long as the gynophore. Seeds imma- 

 ture, apparently like those of S. P'alconeriana. — Very closely allied to S. viscosa, L., 

 with which it is united by Bentham and Eohrbach. 



9. S. kunawarensis, Benth. in Royle III. 79 ; perennial, puberulous 

 or quite glabrous, slender, leaves narrow-spathulate or lanceolate, flowers in 

 opposite distant pairs or cymes, pedicels slender, calyx glabrous cylindric 

 or subclavate, base intruded, teeth short obtuse with scarious margins, 

 petals deeply 2-fid, scales oblong, capsule ovoid twice as long as the gyno- 

 phore. 



Western Himalaya, in the Tibetan regions of Kunawar and Piti, alt. 10,000 ft., 

 Boyle, Jacquemont, &c. 



Branches tufted from a prostrate stock ; flowering ones slender, 6-12 in., usually 

 glabrous above. Leaves 1-li in., very narrow, minutely pubescent on both surfaces. 

 Flowers rather few and scattered, nodding, pedicels slender, equalling the calyx. 

 Calyx ^-J in., membranous, quite glabrous or the teeth pubescent, clavate in fruit, 

 10-nerved.' Pefab with 2 linear-oblong scales and no auricles. Copswie pale. Seeds 

 dorsally channelled, sides nearly flat, hardly tubercled. 



10. S. Webbiana, Wall. Gat. 627 ; taU, slender, minutely pubescent, 

 cauline leaves broadly ovate-cordate amplexicaul acuminate 5-9-nerved, 



