162 Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, with Opposite ExstreutatE SimpLe LEAVES. 
Lear Mareins ENTIRe. 
PETALS UNITED. 
Pleurogyne small, annual, branching from the base; radical 
carinthiaca, leaves 1 by 4 in., sometimes persistent, ovate, with a 
GENTIANACE®. broad tip, stem leaves } by } in., ovate, narrowed at 
Eo. Lav. 120. 
Himalaya, Kashmir, 
10-13,000 ft. 
Pleurogyne 
spathulata, 
GENTIANACE®. 
BR. Bsioiv. 120. 
Kashmir, 13,000 ft. 
Lahul (A. Kerner). 
Swertia 
purpurascens, 
Chiretta, 
GENTIANACES. 
Be. aay. 121; 
Himalaya, 
5-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Dalhousie, 
Dharmsala, Simla, 
Mashobra (Collett). 
Changlagalhi, 
Murree (Douie). 
Swertia paniculata, 
GENTIANACE®. 
F. B. I. iv. 122. 
Kashmir, 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra. 
(Collett). 
the base ; flowers # in., blue, on stalks + to 2 in. long, 
calyx lobes 5, 4-4 by } in., blunt or very short-pointed, 
corolla tube very short, lobes } by 4 in., blue with green 
veins, fringed near the base, stamens 5, on the corolla 
tube, filaments somewhat flattened, stigma sessile ; capsule 
4 in., oblong, short-pointed, sessile, carpels separating, 
seeds small, very many, nearly round, smooth. 
very like the last species, but radical leaves are 
longer, linear, narrowing from the broad tip to the base, 
stem leaves are longer and narrower, and corolla lobes 
are longer. 
medium size, annual, stem rounded or with 4 ridges, 
branched ; leaves 14 by 4 in., oblong or lanceolate, 3-1- 
nerved, lowest leaves blunt, uppermost  short-pointed, 
smooth, base narrowed ; flowers } in. across, purple or 
dark red, with a darker ring at the base of the corolla 
lobes, in branching leafy many-flowered racemes, calyx 
lobes barely united at the base, 5,4 in., oblong, 1-nerved, 
corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 5, } in., ovate, short-pointed, 
turned back, one horse-shoe-shaped naked depression 
or gland at the base of each lobe, stamens 5, dilated below 
into a tube, not united to the corolla, anthers long-pointed, 
style long, stigmas 2, nearly linear ; capsule sessile, oblong, 
dividing into two, seeds many, =; in. diam., round, smooth, 
light yellow. This plant is used as a substitute for true 
chiretta, see 8. Chirata on the next page. 
very like the last species, but the corolla lobes are 
white in the upper half with two purple spots at the base 
forming a ring with gaps, one depression at the base of 
each lobe, ovate, naked, stamens united to the corolla 
and not joined into a tube, capsule long-pointed, seegg 
smaller, 
