TAs. 4838. 
CRA WFURDIA waserosruars, 
Fascicle-flowered Crawfurdia. 
Nat. Ord. GENTIANEH.—PENTANDRIA DieyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus v. 5-dentatus, dentibus distantibus. Corolla mar- 
cescens, clavata, foveis glandulisque destituta, intus nuda, limbo 5-partito, 
plicis exsertis aucto. Stamina 5, imo corolle tubo inserta ; filamentis basi sub- 
eequalibus. Anthere erecte, incluse. Ovarium disco hypogyno quinquelobato 
basi cinctum, uniloculare, ovulis suture insertis. Stylus distinctus, persistens, 
stigmatibus binis terminalibus oblongis revolutis. Capsula stipitata, bivalvis, 
septicida, valvulis brevissime involutis subunilocularis, placentis suturalibus. 
Semina placentis immersa ; testa alata.—Herbe volubiles, Nepalenses, ramis elon- 
gatis, foliis petiolatis, floribus speciosis plerumgue axillaribus. Griseb. in DC. 
CrawFurptia fasciculata ; foliis lanceolatis magis minusve latis, floribus solitariis Z 
fasciculatisve, calycis tubo alte 5-alato, laciniis subulatis tubum subsequanti- 
bus, corollis infundibuliformibus, limbo laciniis accessoriis aucto. 
Crawrurpta fasciculata. Wall. Fl. Nepal. Tent. p. 63. ¢.47. Griseb. in DC. 
Prodr. v. 9. p. 121. : 
Gentrana volubilis. Don, Nep. p. 126. 
Two species of this most lovely plant, from Sheopore and 
Nepal, were first made known by Dr. Wallich ; and so “ different 
are they,” he observes, “ in their climbing habit from all the other 
members of the Order of Gentianee, that I cannot hesitate de-— 
taching them into a separate genus .” and this he named Craw- 
furdia, “in honorem dilectissimi ~Joannis Crawfurd, armigeri, 
insule Singapore gubernatoris propter opus suum de Archipelago — 
Malayano bene meriti, historiz naturalis totius, preprimis vero 
botanices fautoris strenui, ejusque studio addictissimi.” Mr. 
Crawfurd’s name, too, stands recorded in connection with the 
discovery of the splendid Amherstia nobilis (see the account of 
that plant under our Tab. 4453). Seeds of our C. fasciculata 
were sent from Khasya by Mr. Thomas Lobb to Mr. Veitch, 
with whom it flowered in the greenhouse in January of the pre- 
marcy Ist, 1855. 
