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Ophelia fimbriata Hochst. (Monabothrium Schimperi Hochst. 
olim in schedula ad Schimperi plantas abyssinicas ur. 1241, 
ut supra citavi.) 
Radix perennis multicaulis; caules spithamaei vel dodrantales sub- 
quadranguli, ut tota planta glaberriwi, folia opposita, 1 — 1"/,pol- 
liearia, lanceolata, amplexicaulia, integerrima, trinervia; flores ver- 
ticillato umbellati terminales, nee non saepius in pedunculis axillaribus 
simili mode aggregati; calyx quinquepartitus seymentis lanceolatis: 
corollae rotatae segmenta ovata acuta nervoso-venosa, ealyceın duplo 
superantia, versus basin fovea solitaria inferne semicirculo fimbria- 
rum marginali ornata. 
Exactissime Opheliae et Swertiae habitus. 
Habitat in montibus Simenensibus, speciatim prope Demerki in 
monte Bachit, ubiaSchimpero nostro florens lecta d. 15. Aug. 1838. 
Eodem loco etiam vera Swertiae species occurrit, quam hic bre- 
viter describam: 
Swertia pumila Hochst. (in plantis exsicc. Un. itin. ex Schim- 
pers it. abyss. nr. 1240.) ° 
Radix perennis, caulis simplex digitalis, subquadrialatus, gla- 
berrimus ut tota plantula;; folia radicalia obtusissima spathulato oblonga 
parvula, floralia ovata obtusa; flores terminales umbellatim aggregati 
3 — 7, accedentibus saepe paucis axillaribus; calyeis segmenta obo- 
vata obtusissima, corollae segmenta ovata vel ovato-rotundata, alba, 
stria media subeyanea percursa, versus basin foveis duabus rotundis 
in ambitu fimbriatis instructa, 
Supersunt duae aliae_ species abyssinicae: 
Swertia abyssinica Hochst. (in pll. exsicc. Un. it. ex Schim- 
peri it. abyss. nr. 22.) 
Radix annua, caulis erectus tetragonus subramosus, spithamaeus 
vel dodrantalis, gracilis et glaber sieut tota planta; folia ovato-cordata 
amplexicaulia, tenera, subquinquenervia, obtusa; pedunculi in caulis 
ramorum apicibus elongati subterni, et, si ex axillis prodeunt, bini; 
ealyeis segmenta obovato-lanceolata vel lanceolata; corolla alba, calyce 
duplo major, segmentis luculenter bifoveolatis, foveolis in ambitu fim- 
briatis ; capsulae valvae apice obtusissimae. 
Inter fruticeta mediae partis septentrionalis montis Scholoda d. 23. 
Oct. 1837 lecta. 
Swertia tetrundra Hochst. Gin pll. exsice. Schimperi abyssi- 
nicis sine nro., duo solummodo exemplaria adfuerunt.) 
Planta annua glabra, caule tetragono erecto bipollicari, superne 
