‘sent year (1855). Although this is the smaller-flowered species 
of the two, it is the more highly coloured in the corolla, and the 
flowers are more copious,—often, as Dr. Wallich figures, four to 
six growing together in a fascicle; but this is not by any means 
constantly the case. Dr. Royle finds it in Garhwal, and Dr. 
Hooker throughout the Khasya hills and in Sikkim. Crawfurdia 
Japonica seems quite to accord with this species, as far as can be 
judged from the character given in Walpers. 
Derscr. Root said by Dr. Wallich to be fibrous, and is pro- 
bably annual. Plant everywhere glabrous. Stems slender, fili- 
form, terete, of considerable length, branched, with longer, slender 
branches of the like character, twining in the same way as our 
Convolvulus arvensis, reddish or purple. Leaves opposite, in 
rather remote pairs, lanceolate, acuminate, the larger and older 
ones broader and obtuse at the base ; all of them entire, three- to 
five-nerved, dark green above, pale beneath; petioles scarcely 
half an inch long. Flowers axillary, upon very short peduncles, 
solitary, or two or three, or more, together, and in the latter 
case fasciculate, whence the specific name. Bracteas generally 
two, small, foliaceous. General aspect of the flower very much 
that of Gentiana Pneumonanthe, but larger. Calye, the tubular 
portion oval, or almost cylindrical, with five conspicuous, longi- 
tudinal wings. Zimdé of five, subulate, erect lobes, nearly as long 
as the tube. Corolla about an inch and three-quarters long, 
infundibuliform, pale purple externally, with five broad, whitish 
lines, within rich purplish-blue ; the limb of five, spreading, acu- 
minated segments, having in the sinus a broad, obtuse, slightly 
crenated tooth or lacinula. Stamens five, altogether included ; 
filaments subulate, inserted below the middle of the tube of the 
corolla ; anthers subsagittate. Ovary oblong, stipitate; the 
stipes springing from the centre of a five-lobed dise ; styles two, 
approximate, or apparently slightly combined for their whole 
length, as long as the ovary. Stigmas two, long, terete, papil- 
lose, spirally revolute. Capsule stipitate, elliptical, compressed, 
mucronated. 
_ Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil and glandular dise :—magnified. 3. Cap- 
sule :—xnat. size. ; 
