i.xx.tv. oEXTi.iyACE.i:. 193 



I ill. long ; limb as long as the tube ; lobes obovate, obtuse, rose- 

 colored. Capsule i-l in. long, Fl, B. I. v. 4, p. 101; Grab. Cat, 

 p. 123 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 169. Canscora 

 alata, Wall. Cat. 4363 A ; Dak. & Gibs. p. 158. C. cjmndipra, Wight, 

 Icon. t. 1326.— Elovvers : Feb. 



Konkan: Law\, Gihson\; Vingorla, Dalzelll; Salsel.te and Uran, Graham; Mar- 

 magao, Kanitkar\ Kanaka: Hulikal, JVoodrowl; Karwar, Woodrow; Kala naddi, 

 Ritcliie, 464 ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



6. SWERTIA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers blue, lurid, or 

 white, sometimes with yellow nectaries, in terminal corymbose or pani- 

 culate cymes. Calyx deeply 4 -5-partite ; tube or very short ; segments 

 acute or obtuse. Corolla subrotate ; tube very short, broad ; lobes 4-5, 

 acute or obtuse, with 1 or a pair of glandular nectaries at the base. 

 Stamens 4-5, inserted at the base of the corolla and shorter than its 

 lobes ; filaments subulate or flattened ; anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary 

 1 -celled ; placentas slightly intruded ; ovules many ; style short or ; 

 stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid or oblong, 2-valved. Seeds many, 

 minute, compressed, of ten winged. — Distrib. Europe, Asia, and Africa, 

 principally in the mountains ; species about 90. 



Nectaries 2 at the base of each petal ; small herb under 10 in. 



high 1. S. minor. 



Nectary I at the base of each petal ; herbs exceeding 10 in high. 



Nectary without a covering scale 2. S. decussata. 



Nectary with a fimbriate covering scale 3. S. corynihosa 



var. Lawii. 



1. Swertia minor, T. Cool-e. A small erect herb 2-9 in. high ; 

 stem conspicuously 4-winged, not branched near the base. Leaves 

 sessile, g-| by ^-\ in., ovate, acute, obscurely 3-nerved. Flowers 

 4-merous, in leafy paniculate cymes ; pedicels ^-1 in. long. Calyx 

 divided almost to the base, somewhat enlarged in fruit ; segments 4, 

 ovate, acute, g-^ in. long. Corolla | in. long ; tube very short, scarcely 

 gig- in. long ; lobes 4, ovate-oblong, acute, with 5 parallel nerves, each 

 lobe with 2 triangular pockets near the base, the upper margin of the 

 covering scale timbiiate. Filaments ^ in. long, flattened ; anthers 

 versatile. Capsule -I— ^ in. long, ovoid. Seeds suborbicular, compressed, 

 not winged. Ophelia oninor, Griesb. in DC. Prodr. v. 9 (1845) p. 126 ; 

 Wight, Icon. t. 1332 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 156. Pleurogyne minor, Benth. 

 in Gen. PI. v. 2, p. 816 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 120. 

 — Flowers: Aug.-Sept. 



KoNKAN : wet springy ground on the higliest Ghats opposite Bombay, BaJzell S^ 

 Gibson. J)eccan : Khaudala, Lhiva\ \ Kliadkala, Kanifkarl; Panchgani, Cuokel 

 S. M. Country : Belgaum, on hill tops, Ritchie, 317 ! — Distrib. India (hills of the 

 W. Peninsula). 



I have carefully examined several specimens of this plant in the dried state and 

 have found the glands at the base of the petals to be as described above, although, in 

 one or two cases of plants in fruit, the glands were hardly distinguishable. Griesbach 

 remarks that in Hiigel's collection the glands were covered by a laciniate scale, while 

 in Perottet's specimens the glands were naked and very minute. Mr. C. B. Clarke 

 (Fl. B. I. I.e.) is doubtful as to the propriety of placing the plant in the genus 

 rieurogyne, and I think it should certainly be restored to its pristine position. 



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