Plants of the Punjab. 168 
Heres, Erect, with Opposite ExstrpuLATE SIMPLE LEAVEs. 
Swertia tetragona, 
GENTIANACER. 
HBr avi 225 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Simla, 
Mashobra (Collett). 
Swertia cordata, 
GENTIANACEA. 
BBs anv 128: 
Himalaya, 
4-12,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Kuldana near 
Murree (Douie). 
Swertia Chirata, 
Chiretta, 
Charayata. 
GENTIANACER. 
B.B: Feiwel 24. 
Himalaya, 
4-10,000 ft. 
Kashmir, Simla, 
Chadwick Falls, 
Mashobra, Matiana 
(Collett). 
Jaku (Bomford). 
Lear Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
very like the last species, but stem more square, 
corolla lobes white with 2 hairy oblong glands on each 
lobe, no style, 2 stigmas consisting of 2 closely placed 
half round plates. 
medium size, annual, stem 4-ridged; leaves 14 by 
3 in., ovate, short-pointed, 3-5-nerved, base often heart- 
shaped, sessile ; flowers }-3 in., yellowish-white, margin 
streaked with purple in many-flowered branching racemes, 
calyx lobes 4 by } in., 5, ovate-lanceolate, short-pointed, 
barely united corolla lobes 5, $-4 in., oblong, short-pointed 
or blunt, one large circular sticky naked yellowish spot 
at the base of each lobe, stamens 5, linear, hardly united 
at the base, style cylindric, stigmas 2, half round ; capsule 
1 by 1, often barely }in., seeds }; in., nearly round, covered 
with raised rows of glands, In North Kashmir the flowers 
are often double, 
medium size to large, annual, stem 4-ridged at the top, 
rounded below; leaves 2 by 2 in., broadly lanceolate, 
lower often much larger and stalked, stem leaves nearly 
sessile, oblong, with rounded ends, short-pointed, 5-nerved ; 
flowers nearly 2 in. diam., bright sreen-yellow with 
purple nerves, in large leafy many-flowered branching 
recemes, sessile or on short-clustered flower stalks, calyx 
lobes 4, 4 in., lanceolate, distinctly united, corolla lobes 4, 
1 in., ovate, long-pointed, 2 glandular depressions at 
the base of each lobe with a fringe of long white or pink 
hairs, stamens 4, linear, ununited, style cylindric, stigmas 
2, oblong ; capsule } in, and more, ovate, short-pointed, 
seeds ;1 in., many-angled, smooth. This plant is exported 
to the plains and to Kurope to supply a bitter tonic, more 
appreciated in India than in England. 
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