Gbntiana.] GENTIANACE&. 75 



ouspirts of the Old World, a few occurring on the Andes and in 

 New Ze ilaud and Australia. Forty -pecies are desoribod in the Flora 

 of British India, the majority of which are Himalayan. 



Leaves green, calyx-lobes broad . .1.0. pedicellata. 

 Leaves silvery, shining ; calyx-lobes nar- 

 row, pointed 2. O. apnea. 



1. G. pedicellata, Wall. Cat. 9394 ; Clarice in Journ. £*»*• Soc. xiv, 435. 

 G. qualnfana, Clarke in F. B. I. iv, 111 {not of B.u.m) ; Collett Fl. Siml. 

 324. tfnoila padioallati, D. Don in Frans. Linn. So:, xvii, 514. 



Whole plant 2.^-5 in. high. Stoma many, slender, much branched, usually 

 procumbent. Leives dark grjjn, not margined; radical rosulate, 

 spreading, lanceolate, acuminat 9, narrowed to the base, ^-nerved ; canline 

 smaller, spreading or recurved, macronate Flowers in terminal cymes, 

 £ in. long, blue or greenish-yellow. Calyx about half as long as the 

 corolla, lanceolate, acute, rigid often subsquarrose. Corolla 5-lobed ; 

 lobes ovate, acuminata. Capsule stipitate, narrowed to the base. 



Dehra Dan and on both sides of the Siwalik range up to 3,0 '0 ft. Flowers 

 in March. Distrib. Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan up to 

 10,00) ft., also on the Khasia dills, the Deccan Mts. and those of Ceylon, 

 extending to Burma, Java and probably to China. 



2. G. aprica, Dcn\ in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 112, t- 118 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 

 324. G. decemfida, var. aprica, Clarke in F. B. I. iv, 112. Ericala decemfida, 

 D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii, 514 ; tioyle III. 277. 



A glabrous erect annual. Stems stiff, 3-10 in. high, simple or with many 

 ascending branches. Leaves silvery, shining, radical rosulate, £-$ in. 

 long, broadly ovate, mucronate, 3-nerved, glaucous beneath ; canline J 

 in. long, narrowly lanceolate, aristate, conduplicate, connate at the base; 

 uppermost smaller, subulate. Flowers blue, subpaniculate, pedicels 

 often 4 in. long. Calyx »-fid , about half as lung as the corolla ; lobes 

 narrow, finely pointed. Corolla-lobes lanceolate, acuminate. Capsule J 

 in. long, obovat j or cuneate, stipitate, usually included, valves with 

 pale-coloured edges. 



Abundant on rocks and grassy banks throughout the Siwalik range, also 

 in Djhra Dun. Klowjrs in March and April. Distkib. Himalaya 

 from below Simla to Kumaon up to 3,0JJ ft. ; also in Upper Burma. 



5. HOPPEA. Willd. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 100. 



Small, mu:h branched, glabrous herb*. Leaves small, opposite, 

 sessile. Flowers sessile or shortly pedioelled, in 2-3-cho'omous cymes. 

 Calyx oainpauulate ; lob33 -1, ovate, acuminate. Corolla urceolate 



