Gentiana. | GENTIANE. 455 
Var. suberecta, Kirk, l.c. 339.—Stems more slender, suberect, decumbent 
at the base, 6-18in. high. Cauline leaves more remote. Flowers in rather lax 
corymbs, usually on long pedicels. Calyx-lobes broadly oblong. 
AUCKLAND Is~uANDS: Not uncommon from sea-level to nearly 1900 ft., 
Hooker! Kirk! Chapman ! 
A remarkably brilliant plant, well figured in the ‘“‘ Flora Antarctica.’ 
14. G. concinna, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 53, t. 35.—Usually 
annual. Stems short, slender, much branched from the base, 
erect or ascending, 1-4 in. high; branches crowded, leafy. Leaves 
close-set, 4-lin. long, oblong-spathulate or linear-oblong, obtuse, 
gradually narrowed into a broad flat petiole, spreading or recurved, 
coriaceous; cauline similar but smaller. Flowers in the axils 
of the upper leaves, often very numerous, sessile or shortly 
peduncled, about 4+in. long, white streaked with red or purple or 
altogether red. Calyx 4 shorter than the corolla, divided 3-way 
down ; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse. Corolla rotate-campanulate ; 
lobes obovate-oblong, obtuse.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 190. G. cerina 
var. concinna, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 339. 
AUCKLAND IsLANDS: Not uncommon, Hooker, Kirk! Chapman! 
A charming little plant, very closely allied to G. cerina, from which it is 
mainly separated by being annual, by the more erect mode of growth, and by the 
smaller size of all its parts. According to Mr. Kirk, it is usually found growing 
on the surface of the huge masses of ‘7ichocolea tomentella and other Hepatice 
which often carpet the ground in sheltered places in the Auckland Islands. 
15. G. antarctica, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1899) 
339.—Annual; whole plant very minutely verrucose. Stems stout, 
erect, simple or branched, densely leafy throughout, 3-10 in. high. 
Radical leaves numerous, spreading all round, 1—2in. long; blade 
oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, 3-5-nerved, membranous when dry, 
narrowed into a petiole of about equal length ; cauline leaves rather 
smaller, with shorter petioles. Flowers small, about 4in. long, 
crowded on short axillary leafy branchlets shorter than the sub- 
tending leaves, each flower in the axil of a floral leaf exceeding it 
in length ; pedicels short, slender. Calyx equalling the corolla or 
nearly so, divided almost to the base; lobes linear or ligulate, 
obtuse. Corolla divided about 2-way down; lobes linear-oblong, 
obtuse or subacute. Ovary minutely verrucose.—G. concinna var. 
robusta, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1. 53. 
Var. imbricata, Kirk, l.c. 340.—Rigid, erect, 1-3 in. high. Leaves smaller, 
closely imbricating, ovate or ovate-spathulate, not verrucose, coriaceous, margins 
thickened. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves; corolla longer 
than the calyx. 
CAMPBELL ISLAND: Hooker, Kirk ! 
Apparently a very distinct species. Mr. Kirk remarks that it is easily 
recognised by the pale greenish colour, the minutely verrucose surface of all its 
