Swertia. | XCVII. GENTIANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 129 
.?7. S. Thomsoni, Clarke; lower cauline leaves long-petioled oblong or 
elliptic scarcely connate upper often sessile, cymes forming a narrow panicle, 
flowers 5-merous, glands near the base of the corolla-lobes obscure, seeds smooth 
narrowly or irregularly winged. 
Western HiMALAYA ; Kashmir; Sonamurg, alt. 9250 ft., Thomson, Clarke. 
Resembling in leaves and habit S. petiolata, but with more numerous smaller 
flowers and capsules. Peduncles often 6 in. Sepals l by } in., acute. Corolla-lobes 
3 by iin, subobtuse ; glands 2 yellow spots very close to the base of the corolla, 
altogether obscure in T, Thomson’s fine examples, usually naked, rarely minutely 
hairy. Capsulei-Lin. Seeds ib- in., globose, somewhat angular, wing very partial 
and irregular; testa close, smooth, ‘microscopically reticulate (hence glistening). 
28. S. cuneata, Wall. Cat. 4380; cauline leaves spathulate-oblong or 
petioled, peduncles long mostly 3—1-flowered, corolla 5-merous, glands linear 
vertical 2 near the edge of each corolla-lobe, seeds + in. angular ellipsoid smooth 
not winged. D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 520; Griseb. Gentian. 333, and 
in DC. Prodr. ix. 133. S. Hugelii, Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 133. 
J DNE Himataya, alt. 11-14,000 ft.; from Simla to Sikkim; Wallich, Royle, 
: D. H., &c. 
Stem 6-24 in., hollow, 4 in. thick. Leaves 3 by 3 in, usually obtuse. Pedicels 
4-2 in. mostly long. Sepals }-} in., narrowly oblong, obtuse acute or spathulate 
and apiculate. Corolla-lobes 1-3 by 4-2 in., obtuse ; the 2 glands fimbriate with hairs 
# in. long or nearly naked. Stigmas of 2 sessile hemispheric plates. Capsule jin. 
Seeds black-brown ; testa close, reticulated. 
29. S. coerulea, Royle Ill. 278, t. 67, fig. 1; cauline leaves oblong sessile 
or the lower spathulate, pedicels short, corolla 5-merous, glands oblong small, 
Seeds 3. in. polyhedral smooth. D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc, xvii. 521; Griseb. 
in DC. Prodr. ix. 182. 
Western Hrmataya ; alt. 5-9000 ft., Royle; Chumba, Clarke. . 
, Stem 6-18 in., } in. thick. eaves nearly as of S. cuneata. Cymes forming a 
linear dense panicle, peduncles short, pedicels rarely longer than the flowers. Sepals 
1-3 in, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla-lobes 2 by } in., ovate, acute, blueish with green 
nerves, glands with small oblong slightly fimbriate scales. Stigmas sessile, hemi- 
spheric. Capsule 3 by } in., narrowly oblong. Seeds yellow-brown; testa close, 
reticulated.— Differs from S. cuneata in its corolla and seeds, and is excessively near 
Pleurogyne rotata; the difference is that in Pleurogyne the two scales near the base 
‘of each corolla-lobe are subconfluent, forming a nearly continuous hairy ring near the 
e of the corolla, without any definite depressions or viscous marks on the corolla- 
lobe above them ; while in Swertia cerulea there are two oblong minute depressions 
above the base of each corolla-lobe with an oblong scale fimbriated on its upper edge 
produced above the base of each depression so as partially to cover it. 
Van. Wattii; pedicels 1-2 in., sepals 3 by 2 in., corolla-lobes hardly longer than 
the Sepals, scales at their base more developed.—Pangi, alt. 13,000 ft.; Dr. Watt.— 
his, except in the large calyx, closely resembles some forms of S. perennis (see Engl. 
Bot, t. 1441), which has seeds totally unlike S. cwrulea; but Dr. Watt's example 
ing in young flower is not certainly determinable. 
SuBezNvs III. Poephila. Perennial herbs with numerous short branches 
m the rootstock. 
30. S. multicaulis, Don Prodr. 127; leaves narrowly spathulate-oblong, 
cymes very compound pedicels long, corolla 5-merous, a small pit at the base of 
each lobe with marginal fimbrim. Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 194; Clarke in 
Journ, Linn, Soc. xiv, 449. 
ALPINE NEPAL and Sixx, alt. 14-17,000 ft., Wallich, J. D. H., &c. 
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