Swertia. | LXXXVII. GENTIANEA (BAKER AND BROWN). 575 
8. S. Engleri, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 108. Perennial, 6-8 in. 
high; stems many toa root, curved at the base. Radical and lower 
stem-leaves oblong-lanceolate or subspathulate, obtuse or subacute, 
narrowed into a long petiole; upper stem-leaves sessile, }—} in. long, 
1}-3 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse or subacute. Cymes few-flowered, 
terminal and also from the axils of the upper leaves; flowers 5-merous. 
Calyx 24-3 lin. long; lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse or subacute. 
Corolla-lobes about 5-6 lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, 
with a pair of fimbriate nectaries near the base, yellow, with a dark 
bluish-green stripe down the back. Stamens } in. long. Ovary ovate- 
lanceolate, tapering up to the sessile 2-lobed stigma.—S. pumila, 
Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 338, partly. S. multicaulis, Engl. ex 
Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 88, not of Don. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Mount Guna, 4200 ft., Schimper, 
1543 ! 
9. S. pumila, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 28. Perennial 14-3 in. 
high. Stem solitary. Radical leaves rosulate, 3-7 lin. long, 14-2 lin. 
broad, petiolate or spathulate, with an oblong or ovate-vbtuse blade ; 
stem-leaves 1-2 pairs at the top of the stem, 2-3 lin. long, 1-1} lin. 
broad, sessile, ovate or oblong, obtuse. Cyme simple and 3-flowered 
or with 1 or a pair of short 1—3-flowered branches; flowers 5-merous ; 
pedicels 1-6 lin. long. Sepals about } in. long, linear to narrowly spathu- 
late-oblong, obtuse. Corolla white with a dark (bluish ex Hochstetter) 
median stripe; lobes 24-3 lin. long, 1}-14 lin. broad, elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse, with 2 small nearly circular fringed nectaries near the base. 
Stamens 2 lin. long. Ovary ovoid; stigma sessile, its lobes longer 
than broad, ovate, obtuse.—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 55; 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 128; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
338, partly. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: alpine meadows on Mount Bachit, near Demerki, 
10,000-12,500 ft., Schimper, 1240! 
10. S. Richardi, Hngl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 338, Plant about 
1 in. high, branching at the base, perennial; stems several, decumbent 
at the base, then ascending, 1-flowered. Leaves oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 
sessile, 4-} in. long, 14-2 lin. broad. Flowers solitary, 5—merous. 
Sepals oblong, subobtuse, 34 lin. long, 1 lin. broad. Corolla whitish ; 
lobes 5 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, oblong, with a pair of fimbriate nec- 
taries above the base. Stamens about 2} lin. long. Capsule 3 in. long, 
24 lin. thick. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen; below the sunmit of Mount Dashan 
{Dedschen), 14,700 ft., Schimper. 
11. S. minima, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 108. Perennial; stems 
1-3, filiform, about 1 in. long. Radical leaves in a dense rosette, 5—6 
lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad, obovate, obtuse, narrowed to the base, but not 
petiolate; cauline leaves few, 2—2} lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, ovate, 
subacute, subamplexicaul. Cymes terminal, 3-flowered, and sometimes 
