510 Prof. Dow's Descriptions of Indian Gentianee. 
corolla campanulatà: lobis acutis, foliis obtusis; radicalibus elongato- 
lanceolatis ; caulinis linearibus. 
Gentiana Kurroo. Royle Ill. t. 68. f. 2. | 
Habitat in Emodi montibus ad Mussooree et Kuerkoolee loca vernaculé dicta. 
Royle. X. Fl. Octobri et Novembri. Kurroo indigenis. 
Planta perennis, czspitosa. Radix longa, ramosa, flava, collo bipollicari 
foliorum emarcidorum basibus fuscis obtecto. Caules plures, assurgentes, 
filiformes, purpurascentes, 1—3-flori, palmares v. spithamei, nunc pe- 
dales, filo emporetico vix crassiores. Folia radicalia plurima, conferta, 
erecto-patentia, lanceolata, obtusa, coriacea, glabra, viridia, subtüs ob- 
scuré 3-nervia, margine parüm recurvata, inferné angustata, ima basi 
tamen dilatato-membranacea, 4—5-uncialia, semipollicem circiter lata; 
caulina recurvato-patentia, linearia, obtusa, margine recurva, sesquiun- 
cialia, basi in vaginam unguicularem connata. Calyx tubulosus, 5-den- 
tatus, interstitiis membranaceis: dentibus subulatis, erectis, tubum sub- 
equantibus. Corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata, azurea, calyce dupló 
longior, sesquipollicaris, limbo 5-loba; /obis ovatis, acutis, sinubus pro- 
minentibus acutis integris. Filamenta canaliculata, basi dilatata. 4n- 
there oblongæ, obtuse, incumbentes, biloculares, flavae. Ovarium fusi- 
forme, pedicellatum. Stigma bipartitum: laciniis ligulatis. Capsula 
1-locularis, 2-valvis, polysperma. Semina parietalia, subacicularia, fusca, 
apice truncata umbilicata, alterà extremitate alata. 
This fine species comes very near to P. adscendens, which is chiefly distin- 
guished by its acute leaves, more numerous flowers, thrice shorter calycine 
teeth, and by the blunt lobes of the corolla. Its root, which is intensely 
bitter, is used as a tonic and febrifuge by the natives. "This genus is princi- 
pally distinguished from Gentiana, as now limited, by its deeply-parted stigma, 
winged seeds, and by the presence of accessory appendages alternating with the 
lobes of the corolla. 
2. P. depressa, subcaulis, czespitosa, uniflora, surculosa; dentibus calycinis 
ovato-lanceolatis mucronatis, corolla campanulatá: lobis integerrimis 
aristatis, foliis lanceolatis mucronatis margine scabris; surculinis obo- 
