Canscora ] XCVII. GENTIANACER. (C. B. Clarke.) 103 
linear, stigmas 2 short hemispheric. Capsule 2-valved, separating into its 2 
supe or often very thin breaking up irregularly. Seeds very small, poly- 
dral, dark brown, reticulated.—Species 14, chiefly Indian; Malaya, Aus- 
tralia, Trop. Africa and its islands. 
Sureenvs I. Eucanscora. Flowers in terminal dichotomous cymes, or 
Peticelled in axillary small cymes. Calyx keeled or winged. Corolla sub- 
sainte. Stamens 4, one larger perfect, three shorter smaller barren or sub- 
obsolete. l 
* Cymes terminal; bracts at its bifurcations not perfoliate. 
+ Calyx striate or keeled, not winged, pedicels not 4-winged. 
l. C. diffusa, Br. Prodr. 451 in Obs. ; stem quadrangular, lower leaves lan- 
ceolate or elliptic, cyme diffuse, bracts (at least of its lower divisions) large 
Ovate acute sessile membranous, pedicels slender flexuose, corolla rose. Griseb. 
Gentian. 152, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 64; Wall. Cat. 4261; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
FI. 158; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 420; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 372. 
C. foliosa, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 199? C. Lauri, Wight Ic. t. 1327, not of 
Clarke. Gentiana diffusa, Vahl Symb. iii. 47. Exacum diffusum, Willd. Sp. 
Pl. i. 637. E. erectum, Roth Nor. Sp. 83. Orthostemon erectum, Br. Prodr. 
451; Griseb. Gentian. 151, and in bc. Prodr. ix. 63. O. Hugelii, Griseb. in 
DC. Prodr. ix. 63. Pladera virgata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. i. 417 ; 
Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 88, t. 25. Cobamba dichotoma, Blanco Fl. Filip. (ed. 2) 
Throughout Ixpta ascending to 4000 ft., common; from Kumaon and Bhotan to 
Crrtow and Tenasserim.—Distatp. Malaya, Australia, and E. Tropical Africa. 
Annual, erect, 4-20 in., densely branched upwards. Leaves 1} by j in., 3-nerved, 
often petioled; upper passing into the bracts. Cyme diffuse, leafy; bracts j in. 
leaflike, a few of the uppermost linear. Calyx } in.; teeth lanceolate-linear. Corolla- 
tube 3 in., lobes t in. Stamens one on the corolla-throat, perfect; 3 rather lower 
down with slightly shorter filaments and smaller anthers, polliniferous or not. Cap- 
sule oblong, as long as the calyx. . 
Var. tenella; bracts ovate herbaceous, many of the upper linear. C. tenella, 
Wight Ic. t. 1327 ; Wall. Cat. 4362.—Malabar and Mysore, WigAt.— This has the 
bracts nearly as in the next species, but the cyme is diffuse, the pedicels long 
slender. 
2. C. decurrens, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 136; stem 4-winged, 
lower leaves lanceolate or elliptic, cyme erect with ascending branches, bracts 
in its upper part small or linear, pedicels erect, corolla rose or white. . Dalz. s 
Gibs. Eont. Fi. 157; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 430. — C. divaricata, 
Miq. in Pl. Hohenack. n. 670. | 
W. Deccan PrNiNsctA from the Conean south wards, frequent. 
Very doubtfully distinct from C. difusa, var. tenella, Leaves hardly decurrent. 
Cyme subtrichotomous (in C. diffusa usually dichotomous). 
3. C. paucifiora, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii, 136; stem. 4-winged, 
lower leaves ovate or obovate, cyme laxly dichotomous few-flowered, branches 
long curved ascending somewhat 4-angled, pedicels often thickened under the 
calyx. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 157. C. lancifolia, Mig. in Pl. Hohenack. 
n. 305. O. Lauri, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 430, not of Wight. 
W. Deccan Pew , from Malwan to Quilon; Dalzell, Wight, &e. 
Lower leaves scarcely à in., smaller than the middle que Seen (of the lower | 
of the so much as 4 in., oblong or linear.—This seems very near, 
bat soparcble mar is Tuffusa ; Wight. however, in his Herb., referred it to his C. 
tenella (treated above as a var. of C. diffusa). 
