110 XCVII. GENTIANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Gentiana. 
half the size of the fully-developed plant, are frequent. The type specimen (n. 1024 
Griff. Journ.) is altogether an average Himalayan example; G. minutissima, Boiss. 
(Fl. Orient. iv. 71) founded on this number is evidently described from some other 
plant. Koch says that G. tenella in Germany is 4-merous ; the Himalayan examples 
are almost uniformly 5-merous. As to the synonyms, if G. nana specifically differs 
from G. tenella, it is found in the Himalaya. 
Var. faleata, Turez.; Griseb. Gentian. 249; corolla-tube } in. long and nearly 
as broad.— W. Himalaya. DiıstrRIB. Caucasus. 
Var. sikkimensis; stems weak flexuose, leaves scarcely 4 in., peduncles mostly 
long terminal 1-flowered, expanded corolla scarcely 4 in.—Sikkim ; alt. 12,000 ft.; 
Yeumtung, J. D. H., Elwes. 
Secr. 2. Chondrophyllum (char. widened). Corolla not more than 1 
in., 5-lobed, tubular, with folds between the lobes. Capsule often exserted, 
Seeds small, globose oblong or falcate, usually trigonous, testa close, not (or 
most obscurely) reticulated. (See also G. ornata, var. n. 30.) 
6. G. recurvata, Clarke; stems weak often branched, leaves remote 
ovate or oblong, pedicels scattered nodding in fruit, corolla twice as long as the 
calyx, capsule shortly obovoid compressed. Gentiana sp. 13, Herb. Ind. Or. H. 
JF. & T.; sp. 6, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 434. 
Srxxi a. HrwarayxA ; alt. 912,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 
Stems 2-6 in. Radical leaves 4 by 3 in., spathulate-ovate ; cauline 3-4 in., sessile, 
_ often connate, flaccid. Pedicels 4 in., nodding in bud, erect in flower, recurved in 
fruit. Calyr } in.; lobes à in. lanceolate, acute, entire, glabrous, always erect. 
Corolla 4-% by 4-1 in., brilliant blue, folds fimbriate into linear-clavate blue lacinia. 
Capsule à by 1-4 in., stalk as long as the corolla (at least in some cases). Seeds twice 
as long as broad, oblong or subfalcate, trigonous. 
7. G. aquatica, Linn. Amen. ii. 343; branches radical numerous weak 
little divided, cauline leaves small ovate or obovate marginate recurved, corolla 
less than } in., capsule short-obovoid compressed. Bunge in Nouv. Mém. Soc. 
Imp. Mosc. i. 236, t. 9, fig. 6; Griseb. Gentian. 271, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 106; 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 62. G. riparia, Karel. et Kiril. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Mose. 
1841, 706; Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 186; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 
434, syn. excl. G. Ledebourii, Reich. Fl. Excurs. 425. G. prostrata, Clarke, l. €» 
not of Haencke.  Hippion aquaticum, Schmidt in Roem. Arch. i. 10. Ericoila 
aquatica, Borkh. in Roem. Arch. i. 97. Ericala (or Erycala) aquatica, G. Don 
Gen. Syst. iv. 192. 
x Kasman and Western TimET, alt. 13-16,000 ft.; Thomson, &c.—DIsTRIB. 
N. Asia. 
Branches 1-3 in. Radical leaves }-4 in., ovate; cauline } in., remote, usually 
obtuse, mucronate; margin hyaline, narrow. Pedicels 3-4 in., terminal, solitary- 
Calyx 3-3 in.; lobes 4 in., lanceolate, acute, glabrous, entire, always erect. Corolla- 
‘ube hardly longer than the calyx, lobes short blue; folds bifid; fimbrie none. 
Capsule 1 by 4-4 in. ; stalk long, often 2 in., hence capsule long-exsert. Seeds ellip- 
soid, trigonous, not much longer than broad.—S. prostrata, Haencke (as unders 
by Ledebour and Boissier, Fl. Orient. iv. 72), differs by having the capsule nearly 
twice as long; it was collected in Cabul (Griff. n. 1049), never in British India. 
Van. Karelini ; calyx elongate, corolla 3-8 in. narrowly tubular. Griseb. in DC. 
Prodr. ix. 106. G. prostrata, Karel. § Kiril. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1841, 705, not of 
Haencke (?).—Karakoram, alt. 13—14,000 ft. G. Karelini, 7. Thomson, &c. DISTRIB. 
Altai.—Stems 1-2 in. fewer and smaller than those of the type. The Karakoram 
examples agree closely with Karel. & Kiril's G. prostrata ; but their description 
differs in the corolla twice as long as the calyx; whereas, in the Indian plants the 
calyx is 4 in., as long as the corolla-tube. 
