266 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxxii 



varying in size. Calyx (in larger flower) about 2-4 cm, 

 long; tube funnel-shaped not cleft reddish outside about 

 r4 cm. long somewhat thin not rugose inside, intracalycine 

 membrane truncate, 5-lobed ; lobes about 1 cm. long and 

 1 mm. broad subequal narrow linear acute, margin slightly 

 cartilaginous and obscurely scaberulous, not contracted at 

 base, intersepaline sinus about 1"75 mm. broad. Corolla 

 clavate (in larger flower) 4"3 cm. long (but sometimes only 

 3 cm.) striate outside with broad bands along middle of 

 petals, each band with three equidistant coloured lines (no 

 trace of spots in dried specimen) ; tube within the calyx 

 about 2 mm. in diameter, ampliate above and 5-lobed; 

 lobes about 6 mm. long and 5 mm. wide at base broadly 

 triangular acute and mucronulate erect or only slightly 

 spreading in flower ; folds broad about 7 mm. across, one- 

 fifth or one-quarter the length of the lobe with a central 

 more or less triangular tooth and elsewhere more or less 

 erose or slightly toothed. Stamens (in larger flower) free 

 from about 1 cm. above base of corolla, free portion about 

 1'2 cm. long narrowly winged ; anther, about 3 mm. long. 

 Gynaeceum shorter than stamens ; stipe longer than ovary ; 

 ovary linear fusiform. 

 Nepal. Gossain Than. , 



On a previous page (p. 262) I have stated that some of 

 the Sikkim material (more or less) placed in G. ornata, 

 Wall., belongs to a distinct species which I name G. jjrolata, 

 of wliicli the fig. 60 in the Gard. Chron. (3, ii (1883), 396) 

 is a representation. This will be found to be, I believe, a 

 type not uncommon in Sikkim, and it certainly extends 

 into Bhutan. I have been able to study this plant in living 

 flowering specimens raised from seed obtained in Sikkim 

 by Cave and in Bhutan by Cooper, Cave's seeds came 

 under the name G. ornata. The following is a description 

 of this species : — 



Gentiana prolata, Balf . f.^ 



G. ornata, Hort, in Gard. Chron., 3, ii (1883), 396, 



fig. 60. 



1 Gentiana prolata, Balf. f. — Herba perenni.s stolonifem. Stolones 

 eradicantes raiiiosi biennes a rlii/oiiiate niulLicipite centrali erosiilato 

 ad 18 cm. pateiites. Folia breviter petiolata oppo.sita vaginato-connata, 



