Order 78. Gentianaceoe. 191 



3. E. petiolare. Larger than the last, very pretty, leaves 

 ovate petioled, flowers lilac, white, or light blue, with golden 

 anthers, calyx wings broad. 



This seems to be Gr.'s No. 935, which he calls abundant on pasture 

 lands between Panwell and Khandalla ; also above the Ghauts and 

 about Belgaum. D. had it only at Caranja, Birdwood at Matheran, I 

 at Mandangarh. 



2. ENICOSTEMA. 



E. littorale (Hippion orientals, D.). A leafy plant, 6 or 8 

 inches high, much branched, stem 4-sided, slightly winged, 

 leaves sessile, long, lanceolate, blunt, flowers white, S3ssile, 

 about 3 in each axil, calyx with 2 bracts, capsule round. 

 Mamijwd, naichdpdla, 



Guzerat and N. Konkan. Common throughout India (-ff.). He 

 makes the height up to 20 inches. 



3. ERYTHR^A. 



E. Roxburghii. About 4 inches high, lower leaves obovate, 

 upper linear acute, flowers very pretty pink or white in dicho- 

 tomous cymes, anthers often spirally twisted. Kadu nai, 

 lantak. 



The Konkans. Pretty common. Throughout India (fl.). It is 

 much like the English E. centaureum, common centaury, but smaller. 



4. CANSCORA. 



1. C. diffusa. Much branched, leaves lanceolate or ovate, 

 the lower running into the petiole, the upper stem clasping, 

 bracts leafy, flowers pink, corolla 2-lipped, the upper deeply 

 cleft with 3 stamens, the lower notched with one. Mhdtdra cha 

 gavat. 



Very common in the Konkans on rocks, walls, &c.,also at Matheran 

 and Mahableshwar. Throughout India (JET.). 



It is difficult to recognize this and the next as Gentians, owing to 

 the very irregular corolla and stamens. 



2. C.perfoliata (C. alata, D.). Smooth, a foot or more in 

 height, stem 4-winged, leaves lanceolate acute, bracts perfoliate, 

 roundish, flowers rather large for the size of the plant, of a 

 delicate pink, calyx large and winged, upper lobes of corolla 

 the largest. 



S. Konkan. Deccan peninsula, Bombay to Travancore 



C. decurrens, very doubtfully distinct from C. diffusa (#".), leaves 

 more or less decurrent, bracts in the upper part small or linear, 



