,] xviii. CARYOPHYLLEiE. (E%eworth & Hook, f.) 236 



5etals equalling the 5 sepals.— Kumaon, alt 12-13,000 ft., Str. & Wint. (with S. & W. 

 lo. &)'. 



Vak. $. pulvinata; forming dense globnse or ctishion-like masses, opaque or shining, 

 leaves densely imbricate ovate-subulate or the lower oblong and rounded" at the tip 

 usually oiliate, sepals 4-5 coriaceous. — Garwhal, at great elevations, 16-18 000 ft 

 Sir. & Wint. ; Western Tibet, T. Thomson ; Sikkim, /. D. H. '' 



6. Flowers cymose. 

 Var. 6. polyantha; tufts dense shining, stem stout, leaves \-\ in., ovate- or lanceo- 

 late-subulate ciliate or pubescent, cymes sessile many-flowered, sepals 5, petals minute. 

 — Kashmir, ifoyZe; Sikkim, /.J5. .5". 



Var. 7. acicularis; stems lax and leaves very shining, leaves erecto-patent rigid ' 

 narrow subulate-lanceolate keeled, margins smooth, cymes pedunoled lax many 

 flowered, bracts large concave soarious, sepals 4-5, petals minute. — Sikkim, at Tuneu, 

 alt. 12-14,000 ft. ' & > 



12. BRACKYSTEininiA, Don. 



A diffuse subscandent branching herb. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 

 numerous, in axillary or terminal panicles. /SifiJa^s 5,subscarious. Petals 5, 

 minute, narrow and quite entire. Stamens 10, 5 without anthers. Ovary 

 1-celled; styles 2; ovules 4. CopmZe globose, depressed, 4- valved, 1 -seeded. 

 Seed reniform or globose, tuberculate. 



1. B. calycinum, Don Prodr. 646 ; Fenzl in Endl. Atakt. t. 16. 



Temperate Central and Eastern Himalaya; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 

 4-7000 n., J. D. M. ; Bhotan, Griffith; Khasia Mts., alt. 3000 ft. 



Glabrous. Stems 6-8 ft., clambering amongst hushes, 4angled, shining, brittle. 

 leaves 14-3 in., petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous beneath, triple-nerved, mar- 

 ginsobscurely crenulate. Cymes 3-6 in., pedioelled, terminating lateral branches 

 orasillary; bracts linear; pedicels slender. Flowers ^-§ in. diam. Sepals oblong- 

 lanceolate. Petats, stamens and pistil all very small compared with the scarious sepals. 



13. AREITABXA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial, often tufted herbs. ■ Leaves broad or narrow. 

 Flowers white or pink, solitary or in dichotomous cymes. Sepals 5. Petals 

 5, entire lacerate or retuse, never 2-fid or 2-partite, rarely 0. "Stamens 5, 

 perigyi^ous or subhypogynous. Staniens 10, rarely 5, hypogynous or more 

 often inserted on the perigynous lobed or annular disk. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 styles 3-4 (rarely 2) ; ovules usually many. Capsule short, rarely exceeding 

 the sepals, valves 2-6. Seeds compressed or turgid, smooth or tubercled. — 

 DiSTEiB. Species about 130, all natives of cold and temperate regions. 



A. Capsule with as many valves (usually 3) as there are styles. 



_ Sect. I. Alsine. Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves in the Indian spe- 

 cies broad flat. Flowers small, cymose white. Calyx not thickened at the 

 base. Styles 3. Seeds compressed, striate or granulate. ' 



1. A. tricliotoina, Hoyle mss. ; perennial erect, dichotomously 

 branched, branches long strict spreading finely pubescent, leaves glabrous 

 linear or linear-oblong from a broad sessile base, cymes long peduncled tri- 

 chotomous, pedicels slender, bracts scarious, petals equalling or exceeding 

 the ovate-oblong acute broadly-margined sepals, seeds 3-5 orbicular com- 

 pressed. 



Western Temperate Himalaya; Kunawar, alt. 8-10,000 it., Jacquemont, Soyle, 

 &c. — DiSTEiB. Affghanistan. 



Nearly glabrous, 1-1 J ft. Stems rather stout and flexuous at the base j hraaohes terete. 



