the tube, being let in between the laciniae like gores, not 

 badly expreffed by Pallas by the term intercalares. Stamens 

 the fame number as of the laciniae, half the length of the tube, 

 fwollen in the middle. Germen fpindle-fhaped, the length of 

 the ftamens : ftigma two-cleft, finally revolute. 



Approaches neareft to Gentian a afclepiadea, but the 

 corolla is ftill more beautiful in form and colour. Pallas 

 defcribes the flowers as axillary, as well as terminal, but in 

 our fpecimens as well as thofe from the fame country in Sir 

 Joseph Banks's mufeum, they were altogether terminal. 



The whole plant is intenfely bitter, mixed with a fweetifh 

 tafte, fomething like that of pea-fhells. 



Native of the Perfian Alps near the Cafpian Sea, the Crimea, 

 and of Mount Caucafus. Mr. Loddiges had the feeds 

 from the latter country, and we received flowering fpeci- 

 mens from him in the fummer of 1808. Flowers in July. Is 

 a hardy perennial, and may be propagated by parting the roots. 



