89. GENTIANACER. 185 
of the same species. Usually it can be distinguished by the 
truncate sinuses of the calyx being scarious and produced above 
the base of the teeth. 
43. Gentiana Serra, Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxi. 
p. 376. 
Flores usque 4 cent. longi; planta haud raro tota intense 
purpurea. 
Yunnan: mountains above Lankong at 2800 metres (Dela- 
vay!) Herb. Kew. 
44. Gentiana sikkimensis, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 
p. 114. 
Calyx subspathaceus, antice fere ad medium fissus ; talem etiam 
video in speciminibus Sikkimensibus a Museo Kewensi distributis 
(Hook. f. et Thoms. Gent. n. 32,5). Character nescio quo casu 
a cl. descriptore pretervisum. 
Yunnan: summit of Tsangshan above Tali (Delavay!). Herb. 
Kew. l 
Sikkim at 10,000 to 14,000 feet. 
45. Gentiana squarrosa, Ledeb. in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. v. 
p. 527, Fl. Ross. iii. p. 64, et Ic. Pl. Fl. Ross. t. 14; Griseb. in 
DC. Prodr. ix. p. 107 ; Franchet, Pl. David. p. 211; Hance in 
Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 134; Debeaux, Fl. Shangh. p. 43; Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 111. 
CHI1811: Peking (Bretschneider ! Carles! Bullock!) ; KraNGsv: 
Shanghai (Maingay !); Kianast: Kiukiang (Shearer !); HUPEH : 
Ichang and south of Patung (4. Henry !); Szecuven : Chung- 
ching (Bourne !) ; all along the Min river (Faber !); Kwane- 
rune (Wenyon!) ; ConEA (Carles! Perry!). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. 
Kew. 
Mountains of Northern India, and in Dahuria and Siberia. 
2,24 46. Gentiana ($ Amarella) stellariefolia, Franchet, n. sp. 
Gracilis, haud rigida, ad collum caudiculos vel rosulas steriles, 
fragiles, emittens ; caules ad apicem usque foliati (foliorum juga 
4-7), unde pedunculi flore nune vix longiores, nunc etiam bre- 
viores, pro ceteris G. £enellam refert. 
Species G. tenelle valde affinis, sed jam caudiculis et caulibus 
magis foliatis facile distincta. 
Yunnan: Lopinshan at Lankong at 3200 metres (Delavay !). 
Herb. Kew. 
