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Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Erect, with Opposite ExstipuLAtE SIMPLE LEAVEs. 
Gentiana argentea, 
GENTIANACES. 
BB: Lav. 112. 
Himalaya, 
7-12,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Murree (Douie). 
Gentiana capitata, 
GENTIANACER. 
Bob. Lav. 118, 
Himalaya, 
4-12,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Gentiana carinata, 
GENTIANACEA. 
Bob. Asiv. 118. 
Himalaya, 
8-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Gentiana 
cachemirica, 
GENTIANACER. 
webb iv. 1165. 
Himalaya, 
9-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Gentiana venusta, 
Gentiana nubigena, 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, annual, almost exactly like the last species, 
but the leaves are more silvery and the uppermost leaves 
surround the flowers which are closely clustered almost 
into a head. 
small, annual, stems branched or not, bare of leaves 
below; leaves 4 by 4-4 in., green, broadly ovate with a 
broad tip, thick, shining with a bristle at the tip ; flowers 
1 in. long, blue or white, sessile, clustered in leafy heads 
3-3 in. diam., calyx } in., lobes $ in., 5, oblong, short- 
pointed, edges thin, corolla }-3 in., lobes 5, folds with a 
notch at the tip, stamens and style as in the last species ; 
capsule 4 in. long and broad, round, flattened, stalk % in., 
nearly enclosed in the calyx, seeds many, very small, 
oblong, with rounded ends, nearly twice as long as broad, 
smooth, 3-angled. 
small, annual, stem branched; radical leaves 12 by 
1 in., persistent, oblong-lanceolate, sessile, short-pointed, 
stem leaves similar, smaller, curved ; flowers nearly sessile, 
lateral and terminal clustered, calyx tube } in., lobes 5, 
1 in., shorter than the tube, lanceolate, long-pointed, 
erect, corolla 4 by 4 in., tubular, fringed, lobes 5, folds 
bifid, stamens and style as in the last species ; capsule } 
by 4 in., oblong with rounded ends, flattened, seeds many; 
small, oblong with rounded ends, nearly 3-angled, smooth. 
small, annual, branches often long, leafy and numerous 
from the root ; radical leaves 1 by }in., ovate, oblong, broad- 
erat the tip, short-pointed with a bristle at the point, stem 
leaves 4-2 in. ; flowers 1-1} in., blue, solitary, sessile, calyx 
tube 4 in., bell-shaped, lobes 5, } in., oblong with a broad 
tip, a broad space between the lobes, corolla 1-1} in., tubular 
with a bell-mouth, lobes 5, 3 in.. ovate, short-pointed, 
erect, folds between the lobes, stamens and styles as in 
last species ; capsule } by } in., seeds many, small, round, 
glistening, white. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Simple, Entire. 
