108 Xcvit. GENTIANACER. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Gentiana. 
fins ellipsoid, or 4 by $ in., subglobose ; completely exserted from the corolla, or 
lf included (on the same branches); stalk often 1-1} in. 
Var. luteo-viridis; berry 1 by $-4 in., quite included or j exsert oblong red, 
stalk }-} in. C. luteo-viridis, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 443. C. fasciculata, 
Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 27, n. 420, and p. 127, n. 470. Gentiana volubilis, Don Prodr. 
126.— Himalaya, alt. 5-8000 ft. ; from Kumaon to Bhotan, common. Khasia Mts.; 
alt. 3-5000 ft., frequent.— This is the common C. fasciculata of the Himalaya of 
collectors; but the stalk of the berry is frequently more elongated, and the berry 
itself so short, that it appears inseparable from C. japonica; when much less succu 
lent it runs into C. affinis. Wallich appears not to have distinguished it from C. 
fasciculata, as he gives the Himalaya for the habitat of C. fasciculata, which species 
is confined to Khasia, 
Van. Championi; leaves hardly aeute long-petioled, corolla smaller narrower 
berry } in. diam. subglobose red exserted. C. fasciculata, Thwaites Enum. 204. 
Tripterospermum Championi, Gard». ms.—Ceylon; Gardner, Thwaites. 
9, GENTIANA, Linn. 
Herbs, annual or perennial, or (G. crassa, Kurz) shrubby. Leaves opposite, 
bases often connate. Flowers axillary or terminal. Calyx tubular, terete OT 
rarely keeled (spathaceous in G. decumbens) ; lobes 5-4. Corolla tubular, bell- 
or funnel-shaped ; lobes 5-4, often with folds between the lobes. Stamens 5-4, 
attached in the middle or lower half of the tube, included, filaments linear 
somewhat flattened downwards; anthers oblong or ovate. Ovary 1-celled, 
placentæ but little intruded; style short or 0, except in G. stylophora, stigmas 
ivergent. Capsule stalked or sessile, ellipsoid or oblong, compressed, separating 
into its 2 carpels, usually to the base. Seeds very many, small, globose 0r 
oblong, often trigonous, testa close or lax sometimes prominently reticula 
Species 180, chiefly in the mountains of the Old World, with a few in the 
Andes, New Zealand, and Australia. 
. Secr. I. Amarella. Corolla not more than 1 in. at the time of expan- 
sion, without folds. Capsule included, sessile or shortly stalked. Seeds small, 
yellow-brown, numerous, subglobose ; testa close, not reticulated. 
* Corolla not fimbriate in the throat. 
1. G. Moorcroftiana, Wall. Cat. 4390; leaves oblong or elliptic, 
corolla nearly 1 in. 4-5-merous tubular- funnel-shaped. Griseb. Gentian. 249, 
and in DC. Prodr. ix. 96, syn. excl. ; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 433. 
Western HrwaravA; Kashmir, Baltisthan and Lahoul, alt. 812,000 ft., Moor 
croft, Falconer, &c. 
Stem 8-16 in., erect, 4-lineolate, branches ascending. Leaves 1 by 3 in., narrowed 
below. Cymes in subterminal racemes ; pedicels 3-14 in.  Calyz-tube d. in. ; lobes 
şin., linear, Corolla (at time of expansion) 4-1 in., up to the moment of expansion 
often short, blue in fruit enlarged often 14 in., funnel-shaped not campanulate, mou 
din. diam, Capsule $ in., lanceolate; stalk 4 in.—Measurements here taken from 
Moorcroft’s example, the calyx-teeth are often even longer, à by 45 in. 
Van. Falconeri ; flowers often 4-merous, calyx-teeth shorter broader often unequal 
opposite larger } by i in. G. Faleoneri, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 433.— 
hmir, Falconer. he seeds do not differ from those of G. Moorcroftiant. 
Var. Maddeni; leaves narrowly lanceolate acute, expanded corolla often less 
than 4 in.—Kumaon, alt. 10-12,000 ft., Madden, Davidson. Tibet, alt. 15,000 ft. 
(Piti ?), Strachey § Winterbottom, 
2. G. aurea, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 71; leaves oblong or elliptió 
corolla 1-3 in. 5-merous, tubular. Griseb, Gentian. 254, and in DC. Prodr. i£. 
