Plants of the Punjab. 165 
Herss, Erect, witH Opposite ExstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Swertia petiolata, 
GENTIANACE. 
BB. Iniv. 128: 
Kashmir, 
9-12,000 ft. 
Gulmarg, Tragbol. 
Swertia Thomsoni, 
GENTIANACES. 
Re Beisive 129: 
Kashmir, 
Sonamerg, 9,250 ft. 
Swertia cuneata, 
GENTIANACES. 
Me beleive; 129) 
Himalaya, 
11-14,000 ft. 
Swertia ceerulea, 
GENTIANACER. 
Be 1. 129, 
Himalaya, 
5-9,000 ft. 
Chamba (Clarke). 
Kagan (Barrett). 
Lear Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. \ 
medium size to large, root stock perennial, stem 
annual, thick; radical leaves long stalked, lower stem 
leaves 34 by 1 in., oblong, joined into a tube }-1 in., stalk 
2-3 in., ‘leav es at the base of the branched racemes 1} 
by 4 in, sessile, hardly joined together, upper stem leaves 
stalked or sessile; flowers 1-141n. diam., bright grey or 
nearly white with blue-green nerves, in small 3-5-flowered 
Hees racemes os main stalks, $-14 in. long, calyx 
lobes 5, $ by } in. or 3 by ¢ ; in., lanceolate, short-pointed, 
corolla lobes 5, 3 by 2 by 4-3 in., short-pointed with round 
glands or toothed with (eae glands, 2 glands yellow, de- 
pressed, much fringed on each lobe, stamens 5, style very 
short, stigmas short; capsule } by } in., seeds very rough 
with glandular ridges. 
very like the last species, but sepals ¢ by +, in., short- 
pointed, corolla lobes 4 by 3 in., nearly blunt, 2 yellow 
gland spots at the base of each lobe, not well defined, 
usually naked, rarely minutely hairy, capsule } by 4 in., 
seeds 5-71; in., round, partly winged, smooth, glistening 
with a very minute network. 
medium size, rootstock perennial, stem annual, hollow ; 
leaves 8 by # in., usually blunt, stem leaves oblong with 
a broad tip narrowed to the base or stalked ; flowers 1 in. 
diam., blue, on long main stalks, SUES or in 3-flowered 
clusters, each flower: ga minor stalk }-2 in. long, calyx 
lobes barely united, }-}in., narrowly oblong, blunt, short- 
pointed or with a feed tip, narrowed a the base with 
a bristle at the tip, corolla lobes 4-3 t by 3 $$ in., blunt, 2 
glands on each lobe fringed with Heine 4 in. long or hardly 
any, glands linear vertical near the uae of ala lobe, 
stigmas 2, half circular plates ; capsule 4 in., seeds blackish 
brown. 
very like the last species, but small, the flowers are 
in linear dense branching racemes on short main stalks, 
sepals narrowly lanceolate, corolla lobes rather longer, 
bright blue to purple with green veins, ovate, short. ‘pointed, 
glands small, oblong, with oblong small fringed scales, 
stigmas sessile, semi-circular, rapsule largor, narrowly 
oblong, sseda yellow brown 
