124 XCVII. GENTIANACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) ( Swertia, 
tt Calyx distinctly gamosepalous. 
9. S. racemosa, Wall. Cat, 4377 ; leaves subsessile elliptic-lanceolate 3- 
nerved, filaments free linear slightly dilated below, style long cylindric, stigmas 
short oblong. Ophelia racemosa, Griseb. Gentian. 319, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 
127 ; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 447. 
Negrar; Wallich. . 
Stems 18 in., 4-lineolate. Leaves 12 by 4 in. Panicles many-fid., leafy ; pedicels 
0-4 in., mostly short, fascicled, unequal. Calyz-tube 4. in., funnel-shaped ; lobes $- 
à in., lanceolate, very acute, almost keeled. Corolla-lobes 3-2 in.. oblong, acute ; at 
the very base of each, almost in the corolla-tube, is a pit covered by a scale, teeth of 
its margin lanceolate-linear black not hairy. Filaments on the corolla-tube; anthers 
oblong, not hastate. Capsule 4 in. Seeds somewhat large, ellipsoid, smooth.—On 
Wallich's sheets, some S. Chirata is mixed with this, which seems to have troubled 
D. Don as noticed by Grisebach. 
** Flowers all 4-merous, 
T Species of North India. 
10. S. Chirata, Ham.; Wall. Cat. 4372; cauline leaves subsessile ellip- 
tic acute 5-nerved, corolla lurid-green-yellow near the base of each lobe 2 
glandular depressions each terminated by long hairs. Gentiana Chirayita, 
Roxb. ; Fleming in Asiat. Res. xi. 167. G. Chirayta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 71. G. 
Yhirata, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 33, t. 252. 2G. floribunda, Don Prodr. 127. 
Agathotes Chirata, D. Don in Trans. Linn, Soc. xvii. 552. Ophelia Chirata, 
Griseb. Gentian. 320, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 127; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xiv. 447; Benth. § Trim. Med. Pi. iii. t. 183.—Ophelia sp., 17, 19, and 20, 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f., $ T. 
TrwrERATE HiMALAYA, alt. 410,000 ft. from Kashmir to Bhotan. Kmuasia Mrs. 
alt. 4-5000 ft. ; frequent. 
Stem 2-5 feet, 4-lineolate or subterete. Leaves 2 by $ in., the lower often much 
larger sometimes petioled. Panicles large, leafy, many-fid. ; pedicels 0-3 in., fascicled, 
mostly short. Calyz-/obes à in., lanceolate. Corolla-lobes 1 in., ovate, acuminate, 
more or less purple-nerved ; the glandular depressions are green, shallow, often sub- 
marginal, rarely close together or subconfluent, with a fringe of long white or pos 
hairs at the summit. Filamenis linear, free; anthers oblong. Style cylindric ; 
stigmas oblong. Capsule iin. and upwards, ovate, acute. Seeds 4, in., polyhedral, 
smooth ; testa close, not (or microscopically) reticulated.—D. Don (in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xvii. 522) has reduced to S. Chirata his Gentiana floribunda. But there must 
be some error, for he describes the corolla as 5-fid, tubular, blue, and both it and the 
leaves as hairy. Ophelia sp. 20, H. f. & T., is the Khasia plant which has strongly 
3-nerved leaves attenuated at the base, and of which some examples have woody 
short barren branches with terminal tufts of leaves, others annual erect flowering 
stems. This species is so exceedingly near the two next, that the quotations of à 
the older authors are uncertain; Bentley and Trimen’s figure is the one to be relie 
upon. While many of the other Ophelias are gregarious and could be collected in 
great quantity, this occurs scattered (from Khasia to Kashmir); yet all the medicinal 
Chiretta of the Bengal bazaars collected by Dr. Wise proved to be S. Chirata true, 
without any admixture of the closely allied species. 
11. S. lurida, Royle ms. ; cauline leaves subsessile elliptic acute 5-nerved, 
corolla lurid green-yellow with 2 glandular depressions without hairs near the 
base of each lobe. helia lurida, D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii 527: 
Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 124. O. lucida, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 179. 
N.W. Hrwarava, Royle, Falconer; Naini Tal, Col. Davidson. 
Corolla-lobes 3- in. Capsule 4 in.—Differs from S. Chirata in the smaller flower* 
and capsules. 
