aS eS eS me asl. 
Gentiana. | XCVII. GENTIANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 113 
Annual; forming dense tufts 1-23 in. diam. ; branches 10-30 from the root, little 
divided. Radical /eaves £ in. sessile; cauline leaves 1 in., lanceolate, imbricate, 
cartilaginous. Flowers terminal, sessile, solitary, blue. Calyx }-4in.; lobes 1-3 in., 
narrowly lanceolate, rigid, erect, glabrous. Corolla tubular, folds bifid; fimbrie 0. 
Capsule + by % in. stalk sometimes 3 in., sometimes but l in.; seeds as of G. 
decemfida, 
16. G. capitata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 126; stem simple erect naked 
below, leaves ovate or oblong mucronate marginate, flowers capitate, capsule 
globose compressed subincluded. Griseb. Gentian. 275, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 
107; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 430. G. marginata, Wall. Cat. 4391, 
not of Griseb. G. cephalodes, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 84; Thoms. & 
Bacon in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 637, and G. Baconi, t. 20.—Gentiana sp., 
Griff. Ic. Pl. As. t. 884, fig. 1. 
TEMPERATE HrMALAYA, alt. 4-12,000 ft.; from Kumaon to Bhotan ; Wallich, 
Griffith, &e. , 
Stems 1—4 in., often naked at the time of flowering except the leaves mixed in the 
flower-head, sometimes leafy in the upper half. Leaves 5 by 3-3 in., thick, somewhat 
shining, falcate. Calyx X in. ; lobes d in., oblong, acute, scarious-margined, glabrous. 
Corolla 1-1 in, blue or white, folds emarginate; fimbriae 0. Capsule 4 in. long and 
broad; stalk sometimes 4 in. Seeds very small, ellipsoid, nearly twice as long as 
broad, trigonous, smooth, scarcely reticulated. . uu 
Van. Andersoni; stem naked below, upper cauline leaves petioled ovate or elliptic 
herbaceous not marginate. G. Andersoni, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 436. 
icala capitata, D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 512.—From Kumaon to Bhotan, 
alt. 5-8000 ft.; J. D. H., T. Anderson, &e. Khasia; Simons, &c. Probably only 
the fully developed state of G. capitata; having sometimes stout subquadrangular 
stems, and leaves 12 by i-lin. D. Don seems to have got finer specimens for his de- 
seription in Trans, Linn. Soc. than when he founded the species in Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 
Var. strobiliformis ; stem 1-1 in., densely clothed with imbricated margined often 
round leaves, flowers solitary or few. Gentiana sp. n. 707, Griff. Itin. Notes, 147.— 
Himalaya, alt. 10-12,000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan; Griffith, &c. 
17. G. carinata, Griseb. Gentian. 304, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 109; 
stem erect branched, radical leaves persistent oblong-lanceolate acute marginate, 
calyx-teeth shorter than the tube lanceolate acute erect, corolla by 3 in. fim- 
nate, seeds small ellipsoid subtrigonous smooth not winged. G. marginata, 
Clarke in Journ. Linn, Soc. xiv. 437, not of Griseb. nor of Wall. Eurythalia 
carinata, D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 516. Ericala carinata, G. Don 
en. Syst. iv. 189, 
Kasur and N.W. HiMALAYA, alt. 8-12,000 ft., frequent ; Royle, 'alconer, &e. 
Annual; stems 1-6 in. Radical leaves 13 by À in, sessile, very ‘acute, sub-3- 
nerved ; cauline similar, smaller, not much faleate except those next the flowers. 
lowers clustered, lateral and terminal, subsessile. Calyx-tube 4 in.; lobes à in., 
acuminate. Corolla tubular, narrowly funnel-shaped upwards; folds bifid or sub- 
entire. Capsule 2 by Ł in., ellipsoid, compressed; stalk 0-4 in. Seeds altogether as 
of Chondn ophyllum ; Grisebach puts this in a section with winged seeds, but he does - 
not appear to have seen these. . alyx- 
AR. marginata; leaves more crowded herbaceous falcate less acuminate, ar 
teeth faleate sometimes obovate acute, corolla without fimbriæ. G. marginata, Grisch. 
Gentian, 275, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 108, not of Wall. Ericala marginata, D. Don 
n Trans, Linn. Soc. xvii. 513.— Kashmir, alt. 11-14,000 ft. ; Falconer, Thomson, &c. 
Distrib, Kashgar. l , m. Kash 
. “AR, intermedia ; leaves as of G. carinata type, corolla without fimbriæ.— E 
sur, Falconer, These are finely-developed typical G. carinata with very acute straight 
— and large corollas absolutely without fimbriæ (as often occurs). : 
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