GENTIANA. 
of brilliant blue standing up almost stemless from the tuft. It should 
go into the special bed and there be faithfully cherished. 
G. thianschanica is of large and leafy persuasion, though not quite 
so tall as the next, and with blue flowers. 
G. tibetica attains the distinction of being ugly among the ugliest, 
a coarse weedy weed, inordinately leafy, with the packed clusters of 
blossom inordinately small and poor, of a dingy whitish-yellow in 
late summer. It will be found in every catalogue. 
G.x Tommassii is a hybrid of G. punctatax G.x superlutea, the 
reverse cross to that which has produced G. x Doerfleri. 
G. Townsoni is a most beautiful New Zealander from the Alps of the 
South Island, with quite small trowel-shaped leaves huddled at the 
base, and only a few ascending the slender stems of some 12 or 20 
inches (or less), which are crowned with a large dense head of large 
white blossoms. 
G. triflora comes from the mountains of Central Asia, and is very 
handsome, with narrow, glossy, dark foliage along the erect foot-high 
stems that carry a cluster of three or five blue trumpets at their ends, 
with perhaps one or two in the axils of the uppermost leaves. The 
plants should be grown in the conditions that suit G. Pnewmonanthe, 
of which it gives a highly glorified picture—blooming, however, later in 
the summer, and indeed, even into late autumn. (R. F. 1915.) 
G. tubiflora belongs to the high Alps of Kashmir and Kumaon, and 
is a minute dense tuft, about an inch or so in height, densely leafy, 
with small pointed leaves up the shoots of the season, which each end in 
a fine blue flower about an inch long, and half an inch across its face. 
G. utriculosa is a pretty annual often seen in the Alps, with bright 
blossoms almost as large and bright as G. verna’s, several in a loose 
spire up erect stems of 4 inches or so, and emerging from a remarkably 
baggy calyx. 
G. Veitchiorum was originally shown as G. ornata. Itis a beautiful 
species, making a clump rather like that of a narrow, longish-leaved 
G. Gentianella, and blooming generously in August, with long trumpets 
of gorgeous sapphire, opening widely with five ample lobes (and between 
them the fold-lobes of little less size) carried singly on rather weak and 
flopping stems of 2 inches or so, the whole plant tending to have an 
untidy look, thanks to the length and unevenness of the shoots. It 
should have the culture of G. verna; and has the glory of G. excisa. 
G. venosa is only aname. It is a noble Chinese giant of several 
feet, with enormous white flowers veined with green, and almost sug- 
gesting a lily’s. 
G. venusta makes the same lovely tuffet, and has the same big 
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