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on a preceding page as G. sino-ornata, and this plant, as 

 I have explained, is one of those which in cultivation often 

 bear the name G. ornata. 



Hemsley ^ in 1909, when describing Wilson's Szechwan 

 plant, raised by Veitch, as G. Veitchiorum, concludes that 

 his plant is G. ornata, var. obtusifolia, Franch. As I have 

 previously said (p. 259), Hemsley was right in giving this 

 plant specific rank. 



Then in 1915 Irving,^ in the text attaching to a figure 

 of G. Veitchiorum, HemsL, whilst agreeing with Hemsley 

 that this G. Veitchiorum is G. ornata, Wall., var. obtusifolia, 

 Franch., maintains that G. ornata. Wall, does extend into 

 China, that G. Veitchiorum is only a variety of Wallich's 

 type, and tliat the same plant was iaureated by the Royal 

 Horticultural Society in 1909 and in 1915. As the Fran- 

 chetian varietal name obtusifolia is already attached to 

 another species, Irving renames G. Veitchiorunn, calling it 

 G. ornata, var. Veitchii. But G. ornata. Wall, does not 

 extend into China. G. Veitchiorum is a distinct species. 

 The plants which received Awards of Merit in 1909 and 

 in 1915 under the name G. ornata were not the same. The 

 1909 plant was G. Veitcldorum. The 1915 plant was G. 

 sino-ornata. 



From this history it will be learned that the name G. 

 ornata. Wall, has been attached at different times to plants 

 coming from Nepal and Sikkim on the West, Yunnan and 

 Szechwan on the East, and Baikal and N. IVIongolia on the 

 North. I know it for certain only in Wallich's Nepal 

 specimens, but it possibly occurs also in Western Sikkim. 

 From amongst the forms that have been included in it we 

 can segregate these species : — G. Lawrencei, G. j^folata, G. 

 sino-ornata, G. Veitcldorum, and the unidentified plant of 

 the Bot. Mag., t. 6514. 



The following is a description of G. ornata. Wall,, based 

 upon the plants from Gossain Than : — 



Gentiana ornata. Wall. Cat., 4386 ; Griseb. Gen. et Sp. 



Gentianearum (1839) ; id. in DC, Prod., ix (1845), 110. 



G. ornata, Clarke in Hook., Fl. Brit. Ind., iv (1883), 



116. Nepal plant only. 



' Oard. Chi-oii., 3, xlvi (1909), 178, fig. 74. See p. 257 of this papei-. 

 Ibid., 3, Iviii (1915), 288, fig. 100. 



