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may constitute a new genus when the corolla is fully known. It has the habit of 
Frasera and the large Swertias, from which it differs in the gamosepalous calyx and 
ong style. 
10. JAESCHKEA, Kurz. 
Herbs, erect, or small decumbent. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate or 
ovate, bases shortly connate. Flowers paniculate or terminal pedunculate, blue. 
Sepals lanceolate or orbicular. Corolla tubular; lobes 5, short, triangular-lan- 
ceolate, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, attached at the sinus of the corolla-tube, 
filaments short, linear; anthers oblong-sagittate, blue or greenish. Ovary 
l-celled, placentze little intruded; style short, linear, stigma 2-lobed ; ovules 
much fewer than in Gentiana. Capsule elliptic, sessile or shortly stalked, 
separating to the base into its two carpels, splitting the style into halves. 
Seeds ellipsoid ; testa close, smooth not reticulated.—Species 3; Alpine W. 
Himalayan. 
. 1. J. gentianoides, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1870, pt. ii. 230, t. 13, and 
in Flora, 1871, 275 ; erect, panicled, leaves narrowly lanceolate, sepals lanceo- 
late, Seeds 4 in. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 441. Gentiana oligosperma, 
Griseb. in. DC. Prodr. ix. 94. G. Jaeschkei (by misprint Taeschkei), Kurz in 
Trimen Journ. Bot. 1867, 241. 
Kasur and WESTERN Hımaraya, alt. 8-13,000 ft. ; abundant, Jaeschke, &e. . 
. Stem 8-30 in., rigid, slender, somewhat lineolate. Leaves 1j by j in., sessile. 
Flowers panicled, numerous ; pedicels 0-4 in. Sepals à by 3; in., acute, sub- 3-striate. 
Corolla expanding when only 4 in., but gradually enlarging till in fruit (on the same 
stem) more than $+ in. ; tube subventricose ; lobes (in fruit) } by à in. Stamens shorter 
than the corolla-lobes, blue or green when dry. Capsule 3 in., ellipsoid, compressed, 
Very shortly stalked. Seeds 10-30, much larger than in Gentiana. 
2. J. latisepala, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 441; erect, panicled, 
leaves oblong acuminate, sepals unequal ovate obovate or orbicular, seeds ;4, in. 
Gentiana canaliculata, Royle; D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 509; G. Don 
nt. iv. 182. G. Moorcroftiana, Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 96, partly, not 
ae, 
N. Kasuwrn and WESTERN Tiset, alt. 9-13,000 ft.; common, Royle, &e. 
Closely resembling J. gentianoides; but rather stouter, with broader leaves. 
Sepals 3 by 3-4 in, hardly striate; uppermost leaves, when near the flowers and 
bractiform, ovate, Capsule sessile. Seeds as of J. gentianoides. 
3. J. microsperma, Clarke; small, diffuse, leaves elliptic, flowers 
small long-peduncled terminal on the branches, sepals oblong, seeds minute. 
ALPINE Sixxm ; Samdong, alt. 11-17,000 ft., J. D. H. . 
Stem i-1j in. Lower leaves } by l in., cauline d in. Peduncies 1-3 in. Sepals 
È by 3 in., subacute. Corolla-tube 'im.; lobes y, in. Anthers blue or greenish. 
Capsule 4-1 in., subsessile. Seeds 3, in., suborbicular, but, except in size, closely 
agreeing with those of Jaeschkea.—This small plant has doubtless been passed for 
entiana tenella, small examples of which it much resembles. 
11. PLEUROGYNE, Eschsch. 
Annual herbs, decumbent branched or erect. Leaves opposite. Flowers 
panicled, or long-peduncled. Sepals elliptic or linear, often unequal. Corolla 
rotate, wi : its depressions; tube very 
» Without (or with very obscure) basal pits or dep Stamens 4-5, 
short with or without fimbrie ; lobes elliptic, usually acute. 
Attached to the corolla-tube, filaments linear somewhat flattened; anthers ob- 
