Gentiana. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 71 
1. G. verticillata. Linn. suppl. 174. 
Root creeping, perennial, Stems simple, erect, four- 
sided. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, three-nerved, Flowers 
verticilled ; corols five-cleft, funnel-shaped, with five 
glands below the filaments. ; 
Exacum hyssopifolium. Willd, 1. 640. 
Teling. Nella-gullie. 
A small, erect plant, with an annual stem, and perennial 
roots ; a native of moist uncultivated grounds. It flowers 
during the wet season, 
Root perennial, creeping, filiform. Stems herbaceous, 
simple, erect, from six to twelve inches high, four-sided, 
jointed. Leaves opposite approximated, cross-armed, ses~ 
sile, lanceolate, three-nerved, smooth, entire, one and a 
half or two inches long, by half an inch broad, Flowers 
axillary, sessile, generally three-fold, vertical-like, small, 
white. Coro/ funnel-form. Nectary, a swelled gland at 
the insertion of each filament. Filaments short. Anthers 
within the tube. Style single, length of the filaments, 
Stigma large, two-lobed, 
2.G. cherayta. R. Fleming in Asiat. 11. p. 167. 
Herbaceous, straight. Leaves stem-clasping, lanceolate, 
three or five-nerved. Flowers terminal. Corol rotate, four. 
ers tetrandrous, Capsules ovate, bifurcate- 
“Sans. ete Chirataka, &e. . id 
Calais orontatiGaty of the Ancients, pg 
This famous plant is said to be found on the mountains 
of Nepal, and the Morungs. 
_ Root ramous, and probably perennial. Stems single, 
straight, round, smooth, jointed, above ramous ; branches 
generally decussated, nearly erect, with their extremities 
somewhat angular ; the whole height of the plant about 
three feet. Leaves opposite, stem-clasping, lanceolate, 
very acute, entire, smooth, — or five-nerved ; 5 size va- 
