374 LXXVIII. GENTIANE.E. [Gentiana. 



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Victoria, F. Mueller. G. Llemensls, GriseL, Gent. 22 i, and in DC. Prod. is. OO^describeJ 

 from a specimen of Giinii's ia Herb. Hook., which I cannot now iiud, may be this form ; 

 but the numerous specimens sent at different times by Guuu, as far as I have seen, all ap- 

 pear to be annual. 



All the above forms occur in New Zealand, including the typical G. monlana^ whicli is a 

 small weak plant, with a single one or very few flowers, on long solitary peduncles. 



TuiBE II. MENYANTHEiE. — Aquatic or mnrsli plants. Leaves radical or 

 alternate, sometimes floating. Corolla-lobes with broad margins, indiiplicate 

 in the bud. Testa of the seeds crustaceous. 



5. VILLARSIA, Vent. 



Calyx 5-cleft. nearly to the base. Corolla broadly campanulatc, almost 

 rotate, the tube short and broad; loljes 5, with broad entire or fringed mar- 

 gins, induplicate in the bud. Ovary surrounded by 5 minute hypoj^ynous 

 glands, I-cclled with 2 parietal placentas ; stigmatic lobes usually broad. 

 Capsule 1-ceIled, opening at the top in 4 valves. Seeds few or numerous, 

 with a crustaceous testa. — Herbs, usually growing in marshes. Eadical 

 leaves on long petioles, Flowering stems erect, paniculate and leafless besides 

 small bracts, or branching with few alternate leaves (rarely, in a species not 

 Australian and perhaps not a congener, reduced to a l-flowered scape).. 

 Flowers yellow or white. 



constant as they are assumed to he. 



Sterna leafy, branched. 



Calyx-sesraents broad, margins fiat, much imbricate. Seeds ovo^'d, ,., ,. 



^ granular. Stems tall and stout 1. ^' caUhtfoUa, 



Caljx-segments broad, margins undulate, recurved. Seeds com- ^., ^ 



pressed, smooth %, V. congesUJiora, 



Calyx-segments lanceolate, acute. Seeds compressed, smooth. .^ , 



Flowers capitate. Calvx woolly-hairy 8. F. capitata. 



Flowers loosely paniculate. Calyx glabrous ...... 4. T. iatifoUd. 



Stems paniculate, leafless or with a single leaf under the primary 

 braDcIu 



Corolla yellow. Calyx with a distinct obconical base. 



Corolla-lobes very broad, much lon;rcr than the calyx. Eastern .^ . 



species ....... r ...,;,... 5. r, renifomis- 



Corolla-lobes narrow, shortly exceeding the calyx. Western 



species. .. 



stems aboTC 6 in. (1 to 2 ft.), many-flowered 6. ^ parmssf" • 



Stems under 6 iu., very few- or almost 1 -flowered .... 7- J^- vio/'J^'^"' 

 Corolla white. Calyi almost obtuse at the base. 



torolla-lobcs ^vith a loiigituJiiial keel or wing inside. Seeds . _, 



hispid .... 8. F. lasiospermii- 



Corolla-lobes without any longitudinal" appcnJagc inside. ' Seeds „ . , ., 



smooth or tnberculate 9. V. albijtoni. 



}. V. calthifolia, I'. Mndl. Frajm. vi. 140. A stout erect plant, ^t- 

 taimn- 7 or 8 ft. {Drumnm^, the stems more or less leafy. R^dic^il eav 

 on long thick petioles, orbicular or almost reiiiform, coarsely crenate, dt^P • 



cordate, attaining 6 to 8 in. diameter ; stem-leaves several but not niuuero^i- 



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