Tas. 6589. 
CRAWFURDIA LUTEO-VIRIDIS. 
Native of the Sikkim Himalaya. 
; Nat. Ord. GentTranEm.—Tribe SWERTIER. 
Genus Crawrurpia, Wall. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 815.) 
Crawrurpta (Tripterospermum) luteo-viridis; foliis petiolatis ovatis ovato-cordatis 
v. ovato-lanceolatis 3-5-nerviis acuminatis marginibus undulato-subcrenatis v. 
integerrimis, calycis tubo 5-gono angulis costatis costis in lobos subulato- 
lanceolatos erectos tubo «quilongos excurrentibus, corollw albo- v. luteos 
virescentis tubo infundibulari-campanulato calyce duplo longiore limbi parvi 
=p acutis, bacca ellipsoideo-cylindracea coccinea nitida stipitata, stipite corolla 
ongiore. 
C. luteo-viridis, Clarke in Journ, Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 443. 
One species of this remarkable genus of climbing 
Gentians had been cultivated in England previously to the 
introduction of the present, for which we are indebted to 
Dr. King, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, who 
sent seeds from Darjeeling to Kew in 1879, which flowered 
in 1881 in acool pit. Though not equalling the C. fasciculata 
(Tab. 4838) in the colour of the flowers, which in that plant 
areof a beautiful blue-purple hue, the brilliancy of the polished 
berries of this, which are abundantly produced, and the 
vinous autumnal colouring of its leaves and stems, render 
it a very desirable greenhouse plant. -Different, however, 
as these species appear when seen in a living state, it 1s 
very difficult to discriminate them when dried, and I am 
doubtful as to their geographical limits. Wallich, indeed, 
seems to have confounded the two species in his Herbarium, 
and Mr. Clarke, who has worked up the Gentianez for the 
** Flora of British India,” informs me that he is uncertain 
as to their geographical limits. Not only are the characters 
of the flower difficult to ascertain in a dried state, but the 
fruit seems to vary in shape, in the length of the stipes, and 
in being a thick walled or fleshy berry, or a subdehiscent 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1881. 
