Tas. 6497. 
GENTIANA SEPTEMFIDA, var. cordifolia. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. GENTIANER.—Tribe SWERTIEX. 
Genus GenTiana, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 815.) 
GENTIANA (Pneumonanthe) septemfida; caulibus e collo nudo erectis v. ascendentibus 
simplicibus foliosis, foliis superne sensim majoribus ovato-cordatis subacutis 
5-nerviis patulis deflexisve, summis flores sessiles confertos subinvolucrantibus, 
marginibus lwvibus v. scaberulis, calycis laciniis anguste linearibus lanceolatisve 
tubo equilongis v. brevioribus sinubus latis, corolla clavate cyanee lobis 
brevibus ovatis subacutis, plicis fimbriato-multifidis. 
G. septemfida, Pall. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 101, t. 92; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. iii. 
p- 67; Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 74. 
_ G. fimbrizplica, C. Koeh in Linnea, vol. xxiii. p. 584. 
Var. B. cordifolia; foliis latioribus brevioribus obtusioribus basi evidentius cordatis, 
Boiss. l. ec. p. 75. 
G. cordifolia, C. Koch, l. c. p. 585. : 
G. gelida, Parton Mag. Bot. p. 5, with plate. 
On first seeing this beautiful plant, I did not suspect its 
kinship with Gentiana septemfida, of which two forms, 
equally dissimilar from one another and from this, and 
both very inferior to it, are figured at Tabs. 1229 and 1410; 
and I was further deceived by the name of G. gelida being 
attached to it. On comparison with the published descrip- 
tions of the gentians, I find that this is undoubtedly G. cor- 
difolia of ©. Koch, which is rightly reduced by Boissier to 
a variety of septemfida, from which latter, in all its forms, 
G. gelida differs only in its ochroleucous flowers and the 
entire or two-fid plaits between the lobes of the corolla, and 
may be a mere variety of this. Both these species are 
described as having the leaves scabrid on the margin, a 
character which I do not observe in either the living or 
Herbarium specimens. The corolla-lobes in the typica 
forms vary from five to seven, whence the specific name. 
Gentiana septemfida has a wide range in distribution from 
JUNE Ist, 1880. 
