Tas. 8630. 
GENTIANA GRACILIPES. 
China. 
GENTIANACEAE. Tribe SWERTIEAE. 
Gentrana, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 815. 
Gentiana gracilipes, Twrrill; species G. dahuricae, Fisch., affinis, sed 
pedicellis longioribus, calycibus unilateraliter fissis differt. 
Herba perennis, et rosulas steriles et caules florentes erectos vel adscendentes 
teretes glabros gaudens. Folia rosularum sterilium anguste lanceolata, 
acuta, caulina linearia vel lanceolato-linearia, acuta, usque ad 5 em. longa 
et 8-4 mm. lata, uninervia, glabra, opposita, basi connata. Flores in 
axillis superioribus solitarii, pedicellis circiter 5 cm. longis glabris. Calyx 
truncatus, margine distincte 3~5-dentatus, latere altero integer, altero 
fissus, 9 mm. longus. Corollae tubus superne gradatim ampliatus, 3 ‘2 em. 
longus, basi 1°5 mm. latus, fauce 8 mm. diametro ; lobi ovato-triangulares, 
6 mm. longi, 5 mm. lati, patentes, plicis ovato-triangularibus 8 mm. longis 
alternantes. Stamina libera, inter se aequalia, filamentis 7 mm. longis ad 
corollae tubi basin usque decurrentibus, antheris stramineis 2 mm. longis. 
Ovarium fere sessile, cylindricum, stylo 8 mm. longo incluso 3 cm. altum, 
2 mm. diametro, glabrum, stigmate bilobo, lobis 1 mm. longis.— 
W. B. TURRILL. 
The interesting Chinese Gentian now figured is a 
member of the section of the genus Gentiana distinguished 
by Professor Kusnezow as Aptera. According to the 
arrangement adopted by Kusnezow G. gracilipes should be 
placed nearest to G. dahurica, Fisch., with which except 
for its longer pedicels it agrees closely in its general 
facies; or alternatively next to G. Fetisowti, Maxim., 
with which it shares the character of a spathaceously 
divided calyx. For the material on which our plate of 
G. gracilipes is based we are indebted to the kindness 
of Mr. H. J. Elwes, in whose garden at Colesborne, 
Cheltenham, a plant which flowered there in August, 
1914, was raised from seed collected in Kansu and 
received at Colesborne through the late Mr. R. Wood- 
ward. This plant, which was presented by Mr. Elwes to 
Kew, has proved quite hardy and thrives vigorously in a 
cool sheltered corner. It has not yet ripened seed, but 
OcropER, 1915. 
