Canscora ] xcvu. GENTIANACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 103 



linear, stigmas 2 short hemispheric. Capsule 2-valved, separating into its 2 

 carpels, or often very thin breaking up irregularly. Seeds very small, poly- 

 hedral, dark brown, reticulated. Species 14, chiefly Indian ; Malaya, Aus- 

 tralia, Trop. Africa and its islands. 



STTBGENTTS I. Eucanscora. Flowers in terminal dichotomous cymes, or 

 pedicelled in axillary small cymes. Calyx keeled or winged. Corolla sub- 

 bilabiate. Stamens 4, one larger perfect, three shorter smaller barren or sub- 

 obsolete. 



* Cymes terminal ; bracts at its bifurcations not perfoliate. 

 t Calyx striate or keeled, not winged, pedicels not ^.-winged. 



l.C. diffusa, Br. P)-odr. 451 in Obs. ; stem quadrangular, lower leaves lan- 

 ceolate or elliptic, cyme diffuse, bracts (at least of its lower divisions) large 

 ovate acute sessile membranous, pedicels slender flexuoso, corolla rose. Griseb. 

 Gentian. 152, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 64; Watt. Cat. 4201 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 158; Clarke in, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 429; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 372. 

 C. foliosa, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 199 ? 0. Lawri, Wight Ic. t. 1327, not of 

 Clarke. Gentiana diffusa, Vahl Symb. iii. 47. Exaoum diffusum, Willd. Sp. 

 PI. i. 637. E. erectmn, Roth Nov. Sp. 83. Orthostemon erectum, Br. Prodr. 

 451 ; Griseb. Gentian. 151, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 63. O. Hugelii, Griseb. in 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 63. Pladera virgata, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ed. Carey | Wall. i. 417 ; 

 Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 88, t. 25. Cobamba dichotoma, Blanco FL Filip. (ed. 2) 

 355. 



Throughout INDIA ascending to 4000 ft., common ; from Kumaon and Bhotan to 

 CEYLON and Tenasserim. DISTRIB. Malaya, Australia, and E. Tropical Africa. 



Annual, erect, 4-20 in., densely branched upwards. Leaves 1^ by ^ in., 3-nerved, 

 often petioled ; upper passing into the bracts. Cyme diffuse, leafy ; bracts in. 

 leaflike, a few of the uppermost linear. Calyx \ in. ; teeth lanceolate-linear. Corolla- 

 tube \ in., lobes in. Stamens one on the corolla-throat, perfect ; 3 rather lower 

 down with slightly shorter filaments and smaller anthers, polliniferous or not. Cap- 

 side oblong, as long as the calyx. 



VAR. tenetta ; bracts ovate herbaceous, many of the upper linear. C. tenella, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1327 ; Wall. Cat. 4362. Malabar and Mysore, Wight. This has the 

 bracts nearly as in the next species, but the cyme is diffuse, the pedicels long 

 slender. 



2. C. decurrens, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 136; stem 4-winged, 

 lower leaves lanceolate or elliptic, cyme erect with ascending branches, bracts 

 in its upper part small or linear, pedicels erect, corolla rose or white. Dalz. 8f 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 157 ; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 430. C. divaricata, 

 Miq. in PL Hohenack. n. 670. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA from the Concan southwards, frequent. 

 Very doubtfully distinct from C. diffnsa, var. tenetta. Leaves hardly decurrent. 

 Cyme subtrichotomous (in C. diffusa usually dichotomous). 



3. C. pauciflora. Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 136 ; stem 4-winged, 

 lower leaves ovate or obovate, cyme laxly dichotomous few-flowered, branches 

 long curved ascending somewhat 4-angled, pedicels often thickened under the 

 calyx. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 157. C. lancifolia, Miq. in PL Hohenack. 

 n. 305. C. Lauri, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 430, not of Wight. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA, from Malwan to Quilon ; Dalzell, Wight, &c. 



Lower leaves scarcely in., smaller than the middle cauline. Bracts (of the lower 

 part of the cyme) rarely so much as in., oblong or linear. This seems very near, 

 but separable from, C. diffusa ; Wight, however, in his Herb., referred it to his C. 

 tenella (treated above as a var. of C. diffusa}. 



