89. GENTIANACER. 139 
vel pseudoterminales, longe graciliterque pedunculati; calycis 
segmenta folis simillima sed angustiora et costa in mucronem 
brevem terminante; corolla rotata calycem duplo superans; 
segmenta anguste obovato-oblonga vix aeuta, longitudinaliter 
5-7-striata, basi intus appendice longiuscule fimbriata instructa ; 
stamina quam corolla dimidio breviora, antheris magnis sagittatis ; 
ovarium sessile, compressum, glabrum, multiovulatum, stylo 
subnullo. 
Hu»En: Fang and Hsingshan at 9000 to 9500 feet (A. Henry !). 
Herb. Kew. 
This has much the aspect of some of the large-flowered Mexican 
species of Erythrea (Gyrandra). In size the flowers equal those 
of S. cuneata, Wall., and S. cerulea, Royle. 
9. Swertia bimaculata, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 449, 
et in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 123. 
Ophelia bimaculata, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. ii. p. 35 ; Franch. 
et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. i. p. 324. 
Cuextane : Ningpo (Hancock!) ; Huren : in various localities 
(A. Henry!). Herb. Kew. 
Eastern India and Japan. 
4. Swertia chinensis, Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
xxxii. p. 26. 
Ophelia chinensis, Bunge in DC. Prodr. ix. p. 126, cum £. daurica; 
Franchet, Pl. David. p. 212. 0. o 
Ophelia diluta, Ledeb. Fi. Ross. iii. p. 73; Maxim. in Mél. Biol. ix. 
p- 399, et in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1879, p. 33. g l 
Swertia diluta, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 117; Hance in 
Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 37. l 
Swertia rotata, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 115, non Linn. . , 
Pleurogyne rotata, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. ii. p. 35; Franch. 
et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. i. p. 324, nec Griseb. u 
Cum: Peking (Moellendorff! Bretschneider !) ; SHINGKING : 
Peiling and other localities (Webster ! Ross !); SHANTUNG : 
Chefoo (Forbes!) ; CuEkiaNa : Ningpo (Hancock!). Mus. Brit.; 
Herb. Kew. 
: H 1 nd Ja an. 
Siberia, Mandshuria, a P ive length of the calyx and 
Exceedingly variable in the relati 
corolla, the former being sometimes double the length of the 
latter, sometimes barely so long. .3 
