Tar, 6514, 
GEN TIANA oRNATA. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Gentianrx.—Tribe SwERTIER. 
Genus Gentrana, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 815.) 
GenT1ana (Pneumonanthe) ornata ; caulibus e radice perennanti decumbentibus 
gracilibus foliosis, foliis parvis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis linearibusve 
margine cartilagineis levissimis, floribus sessilibus terminalibus solitariis, 
calycis 5-fidi lobis ovato- v. lineari-lanceolatis corollam dimidiam sequantibus, 
corolla ccerulea, tubo subcylindraceo inflato v. subinfundibulari striato, lobis 5 
poe Sisnguler ovate acutis plicis triangularibus obtusis integris multo 
ongioribus, antheris liberis, capsula fusiformi pedicellato corolle equilonga, 
seminis testa lamellato-rugosa exalata. 
G. ornata, Wall. Cat. n. 4386; Griseb. in DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p- 110. 
Pneumonanthe ornata, Don Gard. Dict vol. iv. p. 194. 
This beautiful little Gentian is a native of the rich alpine 
meadows of the Himalaya, where it represents the G. frigida 
of the Hungarian Alps, and from which it differs in the 
cartilaginous margins of the leaves, and the absence of the 
filamentous remains of old stems on the summit of the 
root-stock, as also in the colour of the corolla, which is of an 
intense blue, not white, like the European species. 
The G. ornata is confined to the central and eastern 
Himalaya; it was discovered by Wallich’s collectors in 
Central Nepal, and I have gathered it abundantly in Sikkim 
at elevations of 13,000 to 16,000 feet. oe: 
I am indebted to Mr. Sadler, of the Edinburgh Botanical 
Gardens, for sending the specimen here figured, which 
flowered in May. Some of the native specimens have much 
longer, narrower, and acuminate leaves, and more funnel- 
shaped corollas. 
Descr. Stems numerous, three to five inches long, 
Spreading from the root-stock, decumbent with ascending 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1880. 
