XVIII. CARYOPHYLLE^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 221 



cymes lax opposite long-peduncled, calyx glandular cylindric, teeth lan- 

 ceolate-subulate, base truncate intruded, capsule. narrow oblong, rather 

 Ibnger than the gynophore. S. viridiflora, var. Rohrb. Monog. Silene, 215. 



Western Himalaya, Sirmur, Webb. 



We have seen but one specimen, itself a fragment, 16 in. tall, of what is evidently a 



tall spare lax-flowered species of a plant resembling closely S. viridiflora, Linn. 



£«a»e« 14 in. broad, puberulous on both sm-faces. Branches of panicle (peduncles of 

 cymes) 3-6 in., terminated by two ovate foliaceous bracts. Flowers drooping; pedicels 

 J-| in., densely tomentose. Calyx | in., very slender, 10-nerved, ventricose in fruit ; 

 teeth with snarious edges. Petals long, greenish-white ; limb bifid, lobes Hgulate ; 

 scales 2. Mlaments glabrous. Ovary cylindric, top globose ; styles 3. Capsule 

 immature, cylindric-oblong. 



Sect. V. CucubaloideaB. Calyx cylindric, rounded at the base, pale, 

 membranous. Petals without auricles at the sides.— Scandent or subscand^nt 

 slender lax perennials. Flowers in very lax few-flowered panicled cymes. 



11. S. ? Stracheyi, Edgew. ; glabrous, flaccid, subscandent, leaves 

 petioled lanceolate acuminate membranous, cymes 3-flowered bracteate, 

 calyx membranous, teeth broad with orbicular tips, capsule half the length 

 of the gynophore. 



Temperate Himalaya, Piti river, Kumaon, alt.7 500 ft., Strach. & Winterb. Sikkim 

 in woods, Lachen river, alt. 9-10,000 ft., /. D. E. 



Habit and foliage of Cucubalus baccifer, but glabrous or nearly so, leaves longer 

 petioled. Calyx cylindric, and ovary with a very long gynophore and S^lobed callous 

 tip, indicating a 5-valved dehiscence.-— vSiems shiniag. Leaves 2-2^ by J-fin., ciliolate, 

 with an intramarginal nerve. Pedicels ^-1 in., very slender, minutely pubescent. 

 Calyx I in., pale, with 10 green nerves and anastomosing veins between them above ; 

 teeth hyaline, contracted below the orbicular ciliolate tips. Petals white, very narrow • 

 claw not aurioled ; limb retuse or 2-lobed. Filaments glabrous; anthers short, didy- 

 mous. — An exceedingly curious plant, intermediate between Silene and Cumibalus, per- 

 haps better referred to the latter genus. 



12. S. khasiana, Rohrb. in Linncea, xxxvi. 259 ; glandular pubescent 

 above, subscandent, leaves sessile ovate acuminate, flowers solitary and in 

 terminal 2-3-flowered bracteate cymes, calyx shortly cylindric, teeth broad 

 acute, base rounded, capsule oblong, gynophore very short. 



Khasli. Mts., at Molim and Moflong, alt. 5-6000 ft., -ff. /. <& T. 



A straggling brittle hardly flaccid herb, with rather robust branches. Leaves 1-2 in., 

 not membranous, 3-5-nerved at the base, paler beneath, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, 

 ciliolate. Flowers erect ; pedicels 4-1 in., strict. Calyx \ in., with 10 broad nerves 

 and no veins. Petals pale pink ; claw cuneate ; limb 2-partite, obtuse ; scales small. 

 Filaments glabrous ; anthers didymons. Capsule broad, with very small teeth. Seeds 

 dorsally rounded, sides convex striate-tuberculate. 



7. CTTCVBAIiUS, Linn. 



A diffuse subscandent herb. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Flowers in 1-3- 

 flowered leafy cymes or solitary in the forks of the branches. Calyx broadly 

 campanulate, 10-nerved, 5-toothed. Petals 5 ; claw narrow toothed at the 

 top ; limb 2-fid with 2 scales at its base. Stamens 10. Disk produced into 

 a short gynophore. Ovary 1-celled, 3-septate at the base ; styles 3 ; ovules 

 many. Fruit globose, tip crowned with an entire callus, shining, dry or 

 fleshy, at length fragile and bursting irregularly. Seeds reniform, shining ; 

 hilum lateral ; embryo annular. 



