242 XVIII. CARYOPHyLLE^. (Edg^eworth & Hook, f.) [Armaria 



22. A. Benthaml, Edgew.; tall, slender, flaccid, glandular-pilose, much 

 branched, leaves sessile ovate acute hairy on both surfaces, cymes few- or 

 raany-flowered, pedicels slender divaricate, sepals oblong- or linear-lanceo- 

 late, petals obovate-spathulate lacerate, capsule 2-6-valved. Adenostemma 

 glandulosum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 645. 



Temperate Himalaya; Kumaon, Bliiikworth; Sikkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft., /. D. B.. 



Stems 2-3 ft. high, clothed with spreading joiated glandular hairs. Leaves %-\\ in., 

 .the lower pctioled, midrih indistinct, nerves obsolete, margins ciliate. Cymes peduncled. 

 Flowers J in. diam., nodding ; pedicels slender, deflexed in fruit, ebracteate. Calyx net 

 thickened at the base ; sepals very glandular, erect and recurved, green with narrow 

 membranous margins. Petals longer than the calyx, white. Dish obsolete. Filaments 

 slender, dilated below, but hardly connate. Styles usually 2, not so capillary as in 

 A. holosteoides. Capsule usually 4-valye.d, smaller thalj the calyx. Seeds few, with a 

 thick spongy opaque hardly tubercled testa. 



23. A. debilis, Hooh. f. ; stems solitary or laxly tufted flaccid glan- 

 dular-pilose sparingly branched or simple, leaves sessile elliptic-ovate ob- 

 tuse hairy especially above, flowers solitary terminal or in few-flowered 

 cymes, pedicels divaricate, sepals linear-lanceolate petals obovate, tip 

 erose. 



Alpine Sikkim Himalaya; alt. 14-16,000 ft. /. D. H. 



Very like a small form of A. BerAhami, but smaller in all its parts ; leaves more ob- 

 tuse ; flowers not \ in. di^m. ; petals not lacerate and broader, merely irregularly toothed 

 at the tip; filaments njuph shorter inserted on an evident thickened annular disk. — 

 Small states come very near A. gJanduligera^ which however may at once be distin- 

 guished by the large flower acute leaves and the petals. 



24. A. tenera, Edgew. ; glabrous or pubescent, stems filiform flaccid in- 

 tricately branched, leaves long-petioled elliptic or ovate- or oblong-lanceolate 

 acute, flowers small axillary, pedicels capillary, sepals ovate-oblong or lan- 

 ceolate acute half as long as the linear quite entire petals. Lepyrodiclis 

 tenera, Boiss. Ft. Orient, i. 669. 



Western Temperate Himalaya ; Kishtwar and B£|,nahal, alt. 6-8000 ft., T. Thom- 

 son. — DisTRiB. Aflghanistan. 



A very slender intricately tufted annual, with stems 2-3 ft. long. Leaves scattered, 

 membranous, ^-f in., petiole often longer than the blade, capillary. Flowers usually 

 axillary, J-J in. diam. ; pedicels divaricate, ^-1 in. Sepals variable in form, erect and 

 conniving in flower, then spreading, cijiate at the back. Petals white, gradually 

 dilated upwards, Filaments very slender, hardly united at the base. Disk obsolete. 

 (.'apmde globose, smaller than the sepals, usually 4-yq,lved and 4-seeded. Seeds sub- 

 globose, with concentric series of acute tubercles.— In the Affghan specimens the petals 

 appear lacerate, but it is exceedingly difficult to lay them out after being dried without 

 rupturiug the apices. 



14. SA6INA, Linn. 



Small annual or perennial herbs. Leaves subulate, connate at the base ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers solitary, small, axillary and terminal, pedieelled. ISepals 

 4-5. Petals 4r-5, entire or 0, Stamens 4, 5, 8, 10, perigynous. Ovary 

 1-celled ; styles 4-5 (and valves of capsule) opposite the sepals ; ovules 

 numerous. Capsule 4r-5-v3,lved to the base, heeds reniform.— Disteib, 

 Temperate regions ; species 8, 



1. S. procumbens, Linn. ; perennial, stems many tufted, primary 

 shoots flowerless, lateral slender with fascicled usually procumbent and 

 rooting branches, sepals 4-5 spreading in fruit, petals very small. Bom. 

 Fl. Orient, i. 662, 



