373 



Canscora.'] Lxxvill. gentiaxe.e. 



the intervening stamen rather sliorter than tlie three others. Capsule rather 

 shorter than tlie axX'^-a.—Pladem vlrgata, E.oxb. ; Hook. Bot. :\Iisc. iii. t. 

 suppl. 25, and other syiionvms given by Griseb. 1. c. ; Canscora ieiiella, 

 Wight, Ic. t. 1327 ; Orihostemon erectics, K. Br. Prod. 451 ; Griseb. lu DU. 

 Prod. ix. 68. 



N. Australia. Between Victoria and Pitzmauricc rivers, F. Mueller. 



Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham. 



The species is common in tropical Asia, extending on the one hand to tropical Africa, on 

 the other to the Archipelago and New Caledonia. The irregularity of the corolla is very 

 slight, but quite as much in the Australian specimens as in many of the Indian ones. 



4. GENTIANA, Liun. 



Calyx tubular, 5- rarely 4-lobed. Corolla with a cylindrical or short and 

 broad or campanulate tube and a spreading 5-lobed rarely 4-lobed limD. 

 Anthers opening in longitudinal slits. . Ovary 1-celled, with 2 pane al pla- 

 centas ; style persistent after the flower fiides, often reduced to sessile sfg- 

 matic lobes. Capsule 2-valved, the margins of the valves involute and bear- 

 ing the placentas. Seeds numerous, small.-Herbs, annual or perennial. 

 Leaves opposite. Flowers in the Australian species blue purple or white, 

 terminal or in the upper axils. 



. . . .1 7 t T » „.-T^n,.;.ilK' in mniin- 



la.nous aistncts both of the New and the Uia xvoriu, peuc .aun^ ;;-- -" "y - - 



represented in Australia hy a single species, which is also in Isew Zea and 1" ^JJ « 



northern species the margins of the coruUa-lohes are produced and luduphcate m the bud, 



ig accessory lobes in the sinus. 



1. Cmontana, Torst. Prod. 21. An erect glabrous plan , us ally 

 annual, sometimes with a single slender stem from a tuft of rosu ate raaical 

 leaves, sometimes branching at the base into a dense tuft oi robust stems 

 and in a few specimens appearing to form a perennial stock, varying tiom 

 "i^der i ft. to above li ft. in height. Lower leaves petio ate ohoyr^^l^ 

 spathulate, upper ones more sessile, oblong lanceolate or rarely a'.ino^t «^ ^;«- 

 Mowers termiial or in the upper axils, on long peduncles, fo;,;"'^JS . ' ^ ,.^ 

 vei-y loose trichotomous panicle or sometimes especially f ^";'^':7"^':^l!',^ 

 arge, a compact corymb. Calyx deeply divided ^"^«,/»"^'^^ °^ '~ J 

 herbaceous lobes, more than half ns long as the corolla. Coio la broadly 

 eampauulate, white or blue, or more or less striped or passing luto p nk o| 

 purplish and yellowish at the base, varying from scarcely ^ i n f abo e 1 

 in. diameter when open, very deeply divided mt^o °^^\"t^^ '^^^'^/ifg^' 

 ^J^'all. Stigmas 2, sess ile.-K. Br. Prod. 450 ; Gnseb. m JJ^' ^'°^- ^^.^^ \ 

 Hook. f. Ft Tasoi. i. 271 ; G. Grkebachu, Hook. f. ui Hook. Ic. t. G3G , 



^- pleurogijnoides, Griseb. in DC. Prod. ix. 99. 



Wales. Campbell and Argyle counties, J. Cunningham. 



ria. Frequent iu the Australian Alps, at an elevation of 4000 to oOOO it, 



\\ i "|~%1 * 1 "I • >-^ _ ■ 



Victoria. 



If "'^*« rrequent m ttie Ausiraiiau ^in/o. <"■ "" 



^"^%^,- Port Phillip, G«a«. , , , ,1 , ;-1nnd -rowins but! 



. Tasmania. Derwent river, R. Brown; abundant throughout the inland, gro^in^ 



»n wet and dry places, ascending to 4000 ft., /. D. i^'."^^'''-- ^ ,, „^ 

 3. Australia. Crest of Mount Gambier, Tilly's Swamp, F. m-eUer. 

 Var. ,...,.. stock perennial (but of very short duration ?) .1 lowers \-g^; ^Jf; J 



eorj„,bs.-c. ,a:cosa, Forst. Prod. 21 ; Griseb. in DC. Prod. h. 8U.— Mount buuei, 



