122 XCVII GENTIANACES. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Swertia. 
usually interrupted in the middle, hence from behind the corolla-lobe appears bi- 
glandulose near the base; the foveola or pit is below this, in the corolla-tube, and is 
a watch-pocket slit, never more than one to each corolla-segment. O. ciliata is 
founded on some scraps of Royle’s with most minutely ciliate petioles, nowise differ- 
ing from the type. There is a form (? dimorphic) in which the stamens are not half 
so long as the corolla-lobes, the anthers linear. 
2. S. paniculata, Wall. Cat. 4374, and Pl. As. Rar. ii. 3, t. 205; 
leaves oblong or lanceolate 3-1-nerved, filaments linear separately attached to 
the corolla-tube, style long stigmas linear. Ophelia paniculata, D. Don m 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 525; Griseb. Gentian. 314, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 124; 
Bot. Mag. 5687, fig. 5,6. O. Wallichii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 178. 
Temperate W. HiwALAYA, alt, 5-8000 ft.; from Kashmir to Nepal, Wallich, 
&e. 
Close resemblance to S. purpurascens, when dried. Sepals } in., oblong, acute, 
sub-l-nerved. Corolla-lobes } in., ovate, acute, white in the upper half, patent not 
reflexed in flower; pit very near the base of the corolla, 1 to each lobe, naked ; near 
the base of the corolla-lobe are 2 purple or lurid-green snbglandular marks, some- 
times confluent into one. Filaments hardly dilated downwards, not puberulous; 
anthers oblong, not hastate. Capsule } in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Seeds as 
of S. purpurascens but rather smaller.— The vac. brachypetala, Griseb. Gentian., 314, 
was founded on Wallich’s type of S. paniculata; but Grisebach subsequently marked 
examples of S. dilatata (n. 4 below) as var. brachypetala. 
3. S. Griffithii, Clarke; leaves narrowly lanceolate 3-1-nerved, panicles 
dense, calyx-lobes lanceolate rigid 3-nerved connate below, filaments linear 
free, style long stigmas linear. Gentianea n. 1006, Griff. Itin. Notes, 189. 
Buortan ; Lamnos, alt. 9000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5883). 2. 
Possibly an eastern var. of S. paniculata. Examples are 4-7 in., very rigid, 
branched, dense with leaves and fruit. Leaves 1 by din.  Pedicels mostly à-j !- 
Capsules rather smaller than in S. paniculata, 
. 4. S. dilatata, Clarke; leaves lanceolate 3-1-nerved, filaments much 
dilated for more than half their length puberulous not connate into a tube at 
the base, style cylindrie stigmas sublinear. 
" pene Himataya, alt. 4-12,000 ft, common; J. D. H., &e. NEPAL; Wal- 
ich. 
Resembling S. paniculata, but with larger flowers and capsules; and the stamens 
more like those of S. purpurascens. Leaves glabrous, base minutely ciliate. 
$-} in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, much broader than in S. paniculata. Corolla 
usually shorter than the sepals ; lobes greenish yellow, a transverse purple continuous 
band near the base; a pit horse-shoe-shaped on the corolla-tube, one for each lobe. 
Filaments usually more dilated than in S. purpurascens, sometimes nearly to the 
summit, while at the base they are contracted, separate. Capsule 4-4 in. . 
Var. pilosa ; leaves pilose on both surfaces with ciliate margins and nerves, pedi- 
cels and sepals ciliate. Nepal; J. Scully. 
5. S. tetragona, Clarke; leaves lanceolate 3-1-nerved, filaments linear 
free, style O stigmas of 2 closely approximated hemispheric plates. Ophelia 
tetragona, Edgew. in. Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 80. 
Temperate HtwALAYA, alt. 58000 fc. ; from Kashmir to Simla, abundant ; Edge 
worth, Thomson, &c. 
Resembling in general appearance S. paniculata. Sepals à in., narrowly lanceo- 
late. Corolla-lobes more than } in., whitish; near the base on either side of each 
lobe is an oblong vertical hairy gland; no pit at the base of the corolla-tube but % 
shining obseure concavity, of which (as in other species) the two oblong glands are 
the more prominent upper margins. Anthers oblong, hastate to the middle. Capsule 
