Gentiana. | GENTIANES. 451 
but Mr. Brown informs me that specimens collected by Bidwill and Lyull are in 
the Kew Herbarium, and that together with another form with long leaves it 
makes up the principal part of the G. plewrogynoides of the Handbook (but not 
of Grisebach). This long-leaved plant Mr. Brown is inclined to unite with 
G. Townsoni, but for the present I have placed it in my G. patula. 
7. G. montana, forst. Prodr. n. 133.—Perennial; rootstock 
stout and woody, often branched at the top. Flowering stems one 
or several, simple, terete, very tall and stout, 10—24in. high. 
Radical leaves usually very numerous, densely crowded, spreading, 
8_I1in. long, 4-3 in. ‘broad, broadly obovate-spathulate, rounded at 
the tip or subacute, eradually narrowed into a broad flat petiole, 
3-5-nerved, coriaceous, rather thick and fleshy when fresh. Cauline 
leaves in 2-6 opposite pairs, sessile, broadly ovate or oblong, 
3-d-nerved or in large specimens 7-nerved, acute or subacute, 
often cordate at the base. Flowers very large, white, often #-1 in. 
diam., in broad many-flowered umbels or cymes 2-4 in. across ; 
pedicels long, slender ; bracts broad, usually whorled. Calyx from 
one-half to nearly two-thirds the length of the corolla, cut three- 
quarters way down; lobes lanceolate, acute. Corolla deeply 
divided ; lobes broadly oblong or obovate, rounded at the tip.— 
A. Fach. Fl. Now. Zel. 203; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 399 (but nor 
of Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 178, nor of Handb. N.Z. Fl. 190). 
Var. stolonifera.—Much more slender, 8-16in. high; stem with long 
creeping stolons at the base. Radical leaves 1-3 in. long, oblong- or elliptical- 
spathulate, rather thin ; petiole more slender, as long as the blade. Flowers 
fewer, 3—} in. diam., white with purple streaks. 
SoutrH Istanp: Nelson—Mount Frederic, Mount Rochfort, Mount Buck- 
land, and other peaks on the coast ranges near Westport, abundant, W. Town- 
son! Otago—Dusky Sound, Forster, Anderson, Lyall. 2000-4000 ft. 
January—March. 
At the time of the publication of the Flora and Handbook there was no 
authentic specimen of G. montana at Kew, and Forster’s original diagnosis 
is so short and scanty that the position of the species was quite conjectural. 
Hooker applied the name to the slender annual plant with linear-subulate 
calyx-lobes originally described by him in the ‘‘Icones Plantarum” as 
G. Grisebachii, and for many years this determination was acquiesced in by New 
Zealand botanists. But a set of Forster’s plants now exists at Kew, and another 
in*the British Museum Herbarium. Mr. N. E. Brown, who has critically 
examined for me the New Zealand Gentians preserved in both collections, 
informs me that Forster’s types of G. montana represent an altogether different 
plant to G. Grisebachii, but that they agree with specimens collected in Dusky 
Sound by Anderson during Cook’s third voyage, and subsequently in the same 
locality by Lyall. Iam indebted to Mr. Brown for tracings of Forster’s two 
specimens, which appear to be the only ones extant in England, and also of three 
of Lyall’s. Forster’s are far from good; but Lyall’s correspond so closely with 
a plant collected on the coast ranges near Westport by Townson that I can 
hardly doubt their being identical, although the Westport specimens are rather 
larger and stouter. Both agree in the numerous crowded obovate-spathulate 
radical leaves, and the short and broad cauline leaves, which are sessile and 
cordate at the base, and the inflorescence is practically the same. And both 
agree fairly well with the description given in A. Richard’s ‘‘ Flore de la 
