belonging to a totally different section of the genus, with 
a rotate corolla, sessile ovary, and winged seeds, and that 
it hybridizes freely with various other species of the 
Celanthe section. Of these hybrids Grisebach (in DC. 
lc. p. 86) enumerates five, but that with G. Bursert 1s not 
amongst them. The latter is, however, included in the 
hybrids of lutea by Focke (Pflanzen-Mischlinge, p. 256). 
I am indebted to the Rey. Canon C. J. Parker, of Upton 
Cheyney, Bristol, for the specimen here figured of this 
fine Gentian, which flowered in his garden in July, 1898. 
That gentleman informs me that he found the plant 
in quantities on damp, decaying wood, near the top of 
Rue d’Enfer, in the Val de Lys, above Luchon, where one 
fine specimen was actually growing on a fallen tree. The 
roots which he sent home he planted in half paraffin tubs, 
full of leaf mould and the debris of a faggot pile, which 
he placed on a slope twenty feet above a brook, and there — : 
they have thriven amazingly. 
Descr.—Stem three to four feet high, robust, terete. 
Lower leaves eight to ten inches long, elliptic-ovate, 
obtuse, seven-nerved, narrowed into a short, stout petiole, Po 
nerves very strong beneath ; upper and floral leaves sessile, 
ovate, sub-cordate, five-nerved. lowers in very short 
cymes, densely crowded in the axils of the upper leaves, __ 
very shortly and stoutly pedicelled ; bracts elliptic, sub- 
acute, three-nerved, an inch long, or longer. Calyx three- 
quarters of an inch long, membranous, split to the base, 
mouth truncate, five-toothed, and denticulate. Corolla- 
tube one and a half inches long, between clavate and | : 
campanulate, pale yellow, clouded with green; lobes five 
to seven, one-third the length of the tube, broadly ovate, | 
very obtuse, pale golden-yellow, speckled (as is the throat) 
with minute black dots, lobules in the sinus about a tenth — 
of an inch long and broad, rounded. Anthers shorter than 
the slender filaments, bursting outwardly. Hypogynous 
glands 0. Ovary narrow, cylindric, tapering into a stout — 4 
style, with reflexed, short, broad stigmas, base dilated into — a 
five to seven spreading lobes. Capsule stipitate, narrowly — ; 
ellipsoid, valves beaked. Seeds minute, sub-orbicular.— 
Je Dike ae 
Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary ; 2, portion of corolla laid open, and four stamens; - 
3, fruit; 4, seed :—A/I enlarged. ee 
