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is quoted what Franchet says. Some specimens collected 

 by Soulie at and near Tungnglo, Franchet referred to 

 G. ornata, Wall, (taking that species in the sense of 

 C B, Clarke), as varieties — one G. ornata, var. obtusifolia, 

 the other var. acniifolia. I have pointed out elsewhere 

 that Franchet, in his pioneer work on the Western Chinese 

 Flora, was cautious and conservative, preferring to aggregate 

 Chinese forms with Indian types rather than to segregate. 

 This is an example. I have seen specimens of both the 

 varieties, though I have not had opportunity to examine 

 them critically, and in the light of our increased knowledge 

 it is certain that neither is the typical G. ornata, Wall. 

 Whether they are to be identified with any of the forms 

 I have already spoken of in this paper I cannot say. 

 Hemsley ^ is perhaps right in identifying the var. obtusi- 

 folia with his G. Veitchiorum. 



Kusnezow^ (1904) follows C. B. Clarke, but concludes 

 that G. ornata. Wall, is a variable species. The plant of 

 the Bot. Mag., t. 6514, may be a special variety. He cites 

 the figure in the Gardeners' Chronicle for 1883 as G. ornata. 



In 1907 there appeared in the Bot. Mag., t. 8140, an 

 illustration with the name G. ornata, Wall. The same 

 plant is referred to in the Gard. Chron. for 1906.^ I have 

 already (p. 252) written of this, but will repeat here in 

 order to complete my notes of G. ornata. Hutchinson, 

 who writes the text to the figure, gives the story of the 

 plant. It reached Kew in 1905 from Max Leichtlin. This 

 is the historj^ of the plant which flowered with Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence in 1905, and is described and figured by Burkill * 

 as G. Lawrencei. A plant came to Edinburgh from Max 

 Leichtlin in the same year, and it is G. Laiurencei. The 

 Bot. Mag. figure is certainly not a representation of G. 

 ornata. Wall. It represents, I believe, G. Lawrencei. 



In the same year George Forrest published ^ an account 

 of some Gentians he had collected in Yunnan, and accepting 

 Franchet's recognition of G. ornata, Wall., as a West 

 Chinese species, assigned to it the plant which is described 



1 Hemsley in Gard. Chron., 3, xlvi (1909), 178, fig. 74. 



2 Kusnezow in Acta Horti Petrop., xv (1904), 268. 



3 Gard. Chron., 3, xl (1906), 182. 



* Ibid., 3, xxxviii (1905), 307, fig. 119. 



s G. Forrest in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin., iv (1907), 71. 



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