Tan. 4776. 
GENTIANA Forrtvunt. 
Mr. Fortune's Gentian. 
Nat. Ord. GENTIANE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-4-partitus vel 5-fidus, hine dimidiato-spathaceus, valvaris. 
Corolla marcescens, aut infundibuliformis v. hypocraterimorpha v. rotata, aut 
clavata vel campanulata, rarius glandulifera, nuda aut corona vel plicis seepius 
exsertis aucta, foveis epipetalis destituta, limbo 5—4-partito (hine flore 6—8-mero), 
aut plicis spurie 10-partito. Stamina 5 vel 4, corolla tubo inserta ; jfilamentis 
basi wqualibus. Anthere incumbentes v. erecta, hine in tubum connate et ex- 
trorsum dehiscentes. Ovarium disco spurio interrupto basilari plerumque cine- 
tum, uniloculare ; ovulis juxta suturam seriatis. Stigmata 2, terminalia, revoluta, 
aut si contigua infundibularia; s¢y/o nullo aut cum infundibulo stigmatico stig- 
matibusve persistente. Capsula bivalvis, septicida, unilocularis, placentis membra- 
naceis arew juxta suturam extensz insertis. Semina placentis immersa.—Herbe 
sepius perennes, habitu varia, caule recto v. abbreviato, foliis oppositis, cyma race- 
miformi aut floribus terminalibus. Griseb. 
Gentian (§ Pneumonanthe) Fortuni ; caulibus subewspitosis erectis vel adscen- 
dentibus, foliis lato-lanceolatis (infimis ovatis) 3-nerviis margine scabris, flo- 
ribus in axillis solitariis terminalibus glomeratis sessilibus, calycis tubo cam- 
panulato laciniis 5 linearibus recurvis, corolla intense cerulee albo-macu- 
late aperte pentamera lobis cordato-ovatis plicis brevibus ineequaliter 3- 
dentatis vix exsertis, antheris liberis. 
Grisebach, in De Candolle’s Prodromus, vol. ix., has charac- 
terized 158 species of Gentiana ; and beautiful as they generally 
are, the present equals, we think, if it does not excel in beauty, all 
that have yet been described. It evidently belongs to the same 
group or section of the genus with our well-known G. Pueumo- 
nanthe, and with the Siberian and Altaic G. septemfida of Pallas 
and of Sims (Botanical Magazine, Tabs. 1229, 1410), particu- 
larly with variety maculata, represented on the latter plate. It 
is however a taller, more robust-growing plant, with more distant 
foliage, larger flowers, and it is at once distinguishable by the 
plice or scales at the mouth having three, often irregular, blunt 
teeth, scarcely projecting beyond the mouth of the tube of the 
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