226 XVIII. CAEYOPHYLLE^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Lz/chnis. 



13. Xa. pilosa, Mdgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 34; clothed especially 

 above with long spreading flaccid hairs, stem erect or diffusely branched, 

 leaves ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, panicle lax few-flowered, calyx oblong, 

 nerves green, lobes short, petals with a 2-lobed limb, lobes bifid, carpophore 

 short or long, seeds reniform, granulate on the sides, back with long pro- 

 cesses. Melandryum nutans (a form), Rohrb. in Linncea, xxxvi 229. 



Western Tempekate Himalaya, from Garwhal to Kashmir, alt. 9-12,000 ft., 

 Boyle, JEdgeworth, &c. 



very closely allied to L. nutans, if not, as Rohrbach considers, a variety of that 

 plant; it is best distinguished by the long flaccid hairs, and echinate dorsal face of the 

 seeds ; the latter character is not a very good one, as a passage can be established 

 between the seed of L. indica in which the dorsal granulations are but little larger 

 than the lateral, through that of L. nutans to that of L. pilosa. There are two forms 

 of this species, the original, with the calyx nearly an inch long and a long woolly carpo- 

 phore ; and another with smaller calyx (altogether like that of L. nutans), and a short 

 carpophore. The styles are 5. 



14. Xi. cancellata, Jacquem. mss. ; densely hoary-pubescent, stem erect, 

 simple, leaves eUiptic-lanceolate or orbicular, panicle contracted few- 

 flowered, flowers suberect, calyx 5-lobed to below the middle viscid glan- 

 dular, lobes subacute, petals with an auricled claw and short 4-fid Emb, 

 carpophore woolly, seeds granulate. 



KoNAWAE, alt. 11-12,000 ft., Jacquemont, Royle, &c. 



Erect, rather slender, covered with close-set often rather long and spreading hairs, 

 glandular above. Leaves very Tariable, 1-2 in. long, radical petioled, cauline sessile, 

 acute or acuminate. Flowers in rather distant pairs, shortly pedicelled, inclined. 

 Calyx ^— i in. long, subcampanulate, green, densely tomentose or woolly ; nerves 10, 

 meeting in the segments, broad, green ; lobes oblong, erect or somewhat spreading,- 

 ciliate, tips often recurved. Petals with the claw woolly, limb about J in. long; scales 

 2-fid. Stamens woolly. Styles 4-5.^-The deeply cleft calyx is the best mark for this 

 species, but possibly not a good one, as I observe some irregularity in the divisions, 

 suggesting an abnormal condition of that organ. 



The following Indian species of Lychnis contained in the Kew Herbarium are in too 

 imperfect a condition for determination. 



L. PUMILA, Boyle ; Benth. in Royle III. 80 ; Sohrh. in Linnoea, xxxvi. 227 (Melan- 

 diyum). 



L. CDNEiFOLiA, Moyle ; Sohrh. I.e. ; a densely tomentose short large-rooted species, 

 with spathulate leaves, in a very young state from Kunawar. 



Melahdryum ja'tkuscm, Bohrb. in Linncea, xxxvi. 242, is unquestionably SHene 

 colorata, an introduced plant, alluded to at p. 218. 



There is a Lychnis in the Herbarium differing from any of the above described Indian 

 species, in the upper leaves being linear and rounded at the tip ; its flower resembles 

 that of L. indica. I have seen scraps only from the Shiri Pass in Tibet, collected by 

 Heyde, and from Dr. Stewart (locality uncertain but probably from Tibet). 



9. KOXiOSTEUM, Linn. 



Annual glandular herbs. Leaves narrow. Flowers in terminal umbel- 

 like cymes. Sepals 5. Petals 5, toothed or notched. Stamens 3-5, rarely 

 10. Ovary 1-celled ; styles 3 (-5) ; ovules many. Capsule subcylindric, with 

 twice as many short terminal valves as there are styles. Seeds peltate, con- 

 cavo-convex, dorsaUy compressed, rough ; embryo horse-shoe shaped.— 

 DiSTEiB. Species 3. Europe and W. Asia. 



This genus is distinguished from Arenaria and SteUaria more by habit than by any 

 easily defined character. 



