Plants of the Punjab. 159 
Heres, Erect, with Opposite ExstiputatE SIMPLE Leaves. 
-Gentiana tenella, 
Tita. 
GENTIANACER. 
BS BAL rv. 109: 
Kashmir, 
10-14,000 ft. 
Gentiana aquatica, 
GENTIANACEA. 
Hep: Lav. 110. 
Kashmir, 
13-16,000 ft. 
Gentiana quadrifaria, 
GENTIANACER. 
Robes rv AT: 
Himalaya, 
3-10,000 it. 
Simla, Matiana 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Gentiana decemfida, 
GENTIANACER. 
BB: Biv. Th. 
The Plains 
from 1-3,000 ft. 
Sutlej] Valley, Suni 
(Collett). 
Hoshiarpur. 
Lear Maroins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, sometimes straggling, stem with 4 lines, branch- 
ed, leaves $ by + in., oblong or ovate, lowest broad 
at the tip narrowed to the stalk, flowers bluish, } in. diam., 
on terminal solitary stalks 1-35 in. long, calyx tube barely 
any, lobes 5, } by +4, m. oblong with the end rounded, 
unequal, corolla tubular, tube 3 by 4 in., lobes 4 in., oblong 
with the end rounded, capsule 2 in., oblong linear, sessile; 
otherwise like the last species. 
small, branches many from the base, little divided, 
leaves 3-3 in., stem leaves + in. ovate or with a broad tip, 
margins turned in, usually blunt, with a bristle at the tip; 
flowers blue, ;4; in., on solitary terminal stalks 4-4 in. 
long, calyx 4-3 in., lobes 5, 4 in., lanceolate, short-pointed, 
smooth, margins even, erect, corolla tube hardly longer 
than the calyx, lobes 5, short, with folds, bifid between 
the lobes, capsule } by 4-4 in., short, ovoid with broad 
top, flattened, stalk % in. long, capsule projecting beyond 
the calyx, seeds 3-angled, not much longer than broad ; 
otherwise like the last species. 
small, annual or biennial, branching from the base, 
stems many; leaves green, radical leaves persistent, 
rosulate, 1-1} in., ovate or lanceolate, stem leaves 4-3 in., 
leathery ; flowers 4 in. long, blue, in terminal, 3-5 flowered 
stalked clusters, calyx shorter than the corolla tube, teeth 
5, lanceolate, rigid, often irregularly toothed, corolla 
t-z 1n., lobes 5, with small bifid folds between, stamens 
and style as in G. Moorcroftiana ; capsule } by 4-2 in., 
ovoid, nearly projecting from the calyx, seeds many, 
small, smooth, 3-angled. 
small, annual, branches ascending ;. leaves silvery, 
shining, radical leaves 1 by 4 in., nearly sessile, ovate 
with an abrupt bristle point, stem leaves 4-3 in., stiff, - 
uppermost lanceolate ; flowers 4 in. long, blue, in lateral 
and terminal shortly stalked clusters, calyx 4 in., lobes 
5, ¢ m., narrowly lanceolate, glistening, corolla 4 in., 
hardly longer than the calyx, lobes 5, folds bifid, stamens 
and styles as in the last species ; capsule + by 4 by } in., 
shortly oblong with rounded ends, enclosed in the calyx, 
stalk } in., seeds many, very small, oblong with the endg 
rounded and barely 8-angled. 
