126 XCVII. GENTIANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Swertia. 
been often referred to S. angustifolia which has less acute sepals, larger glands on 
the corolla-lobes, but it may be doubted whether it is a distinct species. 
+t Species of the Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon.—(Filaments linear, not or 
scarcely dilated, free or nearly so; anthers oblong, not or obscurely cordate. 
Style short cylindric, stigmas oblong. Capsule ovate, acute, about as long as 
the corolla. Seeds jb in. polyhedral; testa close, minutely reticulated, so that 
the seeds appear often glistening). 
16. S. affinis, Clarke; leaves lanceolate 3-nerved base narrowed, cymes 
forming an elongate lax panicle, corolla-lobes 4 by } in. oblong shortly acute or 
subobtuse. Ophelia affinis, Arn. in Wight Ill. ii. 175, t. 157, bis fig. 3b. O. 
elegans, Wight Ic. t. 1331. 
" Deccan PzwiNsULA, alt. 2-4000 ft.; from Chota Nagpore to the Pulneys, 
‘ight, &c. . 
Stem 1-3 feet. Leaves 13 by 4 in. Panicle-branches sharply quadrangular; pedi- 
cels 0-1 in., flowers not clustered. Sepals } in., narrowly lanceolate. Corolla-lobes 
white or with blue nerves; orbicular gland near the base large, completely covered by 
a large scale with pubescent margin.—This in its long panicle and smaller flowers 
differs from the other Deccan species, but is very near S. pulchella, var. elegans, 
Wall., of which it may be the South Indian form, as Wight supposed. 
17. S. corymbosa, Wight ms.; upper cauline leaves sessile ovate or 
oblong subacute 3-nerved, cymes forming a level-topped corymb, corolla-lobes 
4 by 4 in. broadly oblong shortly acute. Ophelia corymbosa, Griseb. Gentian. 
317, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 125; Wight Ic. t. 1329 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4489. 
Mrs. of the S. Deccan Pentysuta, alt. 4-7000 ft. ; common. . 
Stem 8-20 in. quadrangular or 4-winged. Lower cauline leaves 2 by $ in. 
spathulate-obovate, obtuse, subpetioled; upper cauline à by à in., ovate, obtuse, 
mucronate. Corymb wide; pedicels 0-} in., clustered. Sepals } in., narrowly lan- 
ceolate. Corolla-lobes white with blue-nerves or pale-blue, one gland at the base of 
each covered by a scale with pubescent margin.— Described from Wight's type; Bot. 
Mag. t. 4489, is a much drawn-up garden specimen with the upper leaves spathulate, 
and the flowers much bluer than common. The following varieties are here descri 
from the type specimens, but numerous intermediates occur which Wight was unable 
to refer to any one variety. . 
Var. elatior, Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 125; upper cauline leaves 2} iu. elliptic 
lanceolate acute, sepals i in. acute, corolla-lobes 1 in. very obtuse.—Nilgherries, 
Bombay; Dalzell. 
Var. Grisebachiana; upper cauline leaves 1} by à in. acute. Ophelia Grise- 
bachiana, Wight Ic. t. 1330.— Pulneys and Nilgherries ; Wight. Stem terete, obscurely 
lineolate ; lower cauline leaves small, somewhat fleshy, narrowly oblong. This variety 
approximates to S. zeylanica. 
Var. Lawii; lower cauline leaves sessile ovate-lanceolate subobtuse 5-3-nerved, 
upper narrow, corymb lax sometimes few-flowered. Ophelia Lawii, Arn. in Wight Ii. 
ii. 175, t. 157, bis fig. 3v. O. pauciflora, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 211; Dalz. 
d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 156.—Bombay Ghats ; Dalzell, Ritchie. 
18, S. trichotoma, Wall. Cat. 4381; upper cauline leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate, pedicels umbelled or clustered at the ends of the c e-branches, 
A i DA: i» oblong acuminate often caudate. Ophelia trichotot 
7, & A. ms.; Wight Ill ii. t. 157, fig. 3 g. O. umbellata, Wight l. c. 8g- 
3a; Bot. Mag. t. 5397. yf 157, fig 3 g did 
Nivcuerrigs, alt. 6-8000 ft. ; common. 
Only differs from S. corymbosa in the inflorescence and very acuminate corolla- 
lobes. Pedice/s 4—1} in., numerous, sometimes forming perfect umbels ; sometimes 
much shorter, when the examples have been mistaken for S. decussata. 
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