18 Gentianeae. 



mos aut peiluncalos soUtarios biaosve florifcros eniittcns. 

 Corolla c viridi-cyanea; laciniac ovatac, acutac, snpra 

 basini squama mcmbranacea, marjjinc capillacco-multiOda 

 auctac; lobulis iutcrjcctis uullis. 



Erythraea Richnrd in Pers. 

 Calyx 4 — 5-fidns. CoroUa infundibularis faucc, eon- 

 stricta, limbo 4 — 5-partita, persistens ct denium supra 

 capsulam torta; praetioratio dextrorsum contorta. Appa- 

 ratus ^landulosus in fundo corollae uulliis. Stamina 4 

 vel 5. Antherae introrsae, defloratac spiralitcr tortae. 

 Stylus 1. Stig^mata duo, subrotundo- elliptica. Discus 

 nallus. Capsula nni- vcl semibilocnlaris, scpticido-bival- 

 vis. Semina minutissima, ang-ulata, marfjfinibus introflexis 

 valvarum inserta, haud marg-inata. Albnmen cavum se- 

 minis explens. Integ^umentum seminis simplex. Herbae 

 annuae vel biennes, erectae, ramosae ; ramis plerumque di- 

 chotomis. Folia opposita. Flores terminales et alares, in' 

 terdum luterales vel axillares, solitarii vel spicati, pedun- 

 culati vel sessiles. 



1. Erythraea Centaiirium Pm. «Sywop*. 1 . 285. Smith. 

 Engl. Flor. 1. 320. Mert. et Kock. Gcrm. 2. 232. 



Caule tereti-qnadrang^nlo, apice dichotomo-ramosis- 

 simo, corymboso; foliis ovato-oblongis, acutis, subquin- 

 quenerviis; inferioribus oblongis vel obovatis, plcrumqne 

 obtusis; floribus terminalibus et alaribus, subscssilibus, 

 interdum fasciculato-approximatis; laciniis corollae ova- 

 to-cllipticis, oblusis. 



Gentiana Centaurium Linn. Spec. 323. Flor. Dan. t. 617. 

 Schhuhr, Handb. 1. t. .59. 



Chironia Centaurinm Smith. Brit. 1. 157. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 417. Hayne, Arzneigew. 1. t. 29. 



E. capitata Willd. herb. {specimina pecudibus depasta) 

 Chamisso, Adnot. 9. Boeni. et Schult. Syst. 4. 163. 



In pratis et pascuis frcquens. (Charlotten- 



