89. GENTIANACER. 125 
cularia, sub anthesi persistentia, caulina parva e basi sensim 
attenuata, obovato-spatulata, mucronulata, anguste marginata ; 
flores erecti, breviter pedicellati ; calycis lobi tubo breviores, 
ovato-lanceolati, aristati, erecti; corolla palide azurea vel 
lilacina, nune albida, punctis nigro-purpureis conspersa, calyce 
duplo longior, lobis ovatis, plicis incisis lobos fere sequantibus. 
Planta 1-3-pollicaris; folia rosulata 12-29 mill. longa; flores 
18-20 mill. 
G. aquatice presertim affinis, sed levitate omnium partium, 
corolla duplo majore facile distincta. — G. prostrata, Haenke, 
floribus virgineis elongatis magis distat. 
Yunnan: in pastures above Lankong at 3200 metres (De- 
lavay!). Herb. Kew. 
;4;- 8. Gentiana ($Pneumonanthe) cephalantha, Franchet, n. sp. 
Glabra ; rhizoma ad collum sepius pluricaulis, rosulas et caules 
floriferos ascendentes producens; folia margine levia, subtus 
glauca, illa rosularum anguste lanceolata, acuta, in petiolum 
elongatum attenuata; folia caulina pauca, oblongo-lanceolata, 
inferioribus mox emarcidis, superioribus sub floribus congestis et 
illos superantibus ; flores 6-10, arcte congesti ; calyx membrana- 
ceus, ore truncatus, lobis foliaceis valde inequalibus, scilicet 3 
linearibus triplo minoribus, 2 majoribus, tubum turbinatum sub- 
eequantibus, oblongis; corolla cerulea, calyce duplo longior, 
breviter lobata, lobis ovatis; plice integra, breves, late ; capsula 
parum exserta, seminibus minutis ovatis, foveolatis. 
Caules semipedales vel pedales; folia rosularum 10-15 cent. 
longa; corolla subpollicaris. mE 
Gentiane Davidi affinis, sed levis, folia haud rigida, illa rosu- 
larum longe petiolata. 
Tonnan: Heechanmen, Lankong, at an altitude of 2800 metres 
(Delavay !). Herb. Kew. 
9. Gentiana contorta, Royle, Illustr. Himal. Pl. p. 278, t. 69. 
f. 8, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 118. 
Yunnan (Delavay ex Franchet in litt.). l 
Previously only known from North-western India. An im- 
perfect specimen in Dr. Henry’s collection from North Wushan, 
Szechuen, may be this species. l l 
Unicum specimen lectum cum icone Royleana optime congruit ; 
species rarissima videtur, ex Franchet. 
