Gentiana.] xcvn. GENTIANACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) Ill 



8. G-. humilis, Steven. ; Bunge in Nouv. Mem. Soc. Imp. Mosc. i. 235 ; 



branches radical numerous weak little divided, cauline leaves small oblong or 

 elliptic not recurved nor marginate, corolla less than in., capsule short-obovoid 

 compressed. Griseb. Gentian. 272, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 106 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 

 iii. 63; Boiss FL Orient, iv. 72. G. aquatica, Pall. Fl. Ross. ii. t. 97, fig. 2, not 

 of Linn. Ericala humilis ; G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 192. 



WESTERN TIBET; Karakoram, alt. 13-16,000 ft.; Thomson, &c. DISTEIB. 

 Caucasus, N. Asia. 



Closely resembling G. aquatica. Corolla ^ by -^ in., usually white, sometimes 

 blue. Capsule - in. 



VAR. evolutior corolla ^ by % in. fine blue, capsule % in. Karakoram ; Thomson, 

 &c. 



9. G-. pyg-maea, Clarke ; stem -1 in. simple 1-flowered, leaves minute 

 remote ovate, corolla - in. tubular. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Karakoram, Nubra, Thomson. 



Leaves - in., ovate or obovate, margined. Calyx shorter than the corolla-tube ; 

 lobes lanceolate, acute, erect. Corolla blue ; folds bifid ; fimbrise 0. This looks like 

 an excessively reduced form of G. aquatica, Linn. 



VAR. acuminata ; leaves imbricate acuminated. Kashmir ; Palgam, alt. 13,500 ft. 

 Clarke. Some of the examples are only in. high, the expanded corolla | in. long. 



10. G-. squarrosa, Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 64 and Ic. PL FL Ross. t. 14; 

 branches radical numerous weak little divided, cauline leaves small obovate re- 

 curved, corolla less than \ in., capsule short-obovoid compressed. Bunge in 

 Nouv. Mem. Soc. Imp. Mosc. i. 234, t. 9, fig. 3 ; Griseb. Gentian. 273, and in DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 107. Ericala squarrosa, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 191. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-15,000 ft.; Karakoram, Thomson, 

 &c. ; Sikkim ; J. D. H., &c. DISTRIB. Dahuria, Siberia. 



Closely resembling G. aquatica, Linn., and hardly separable except by the calyx- 

 teeth, which are ovate, mucronate, recurved even more strongly than in Ledebour's 

 figure. The leaves are scarcely marginate. 



11. G-. infelix, Clarke ; branches radical numerous small woody, leaves 

 very small ovate, calyx-teeth ovate ' erect, corolla in. tubular, capsule oblong 

 subsessile. Gentiana, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. n. 9 and 10. Clarke in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 435. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Yeumtong and Kankola, alt. 14-15,000 ft. ; J. D. H. KUMAON ; 

 Barji Kang, alt. 14,700 ft., Strachy $ Winterbottom. 



Perennial; branches 1-1^ in., black, leafless, wiry below, leafy upwards, 1-flowered. 

 Leaves ^-\ in., herbaceous, approximate, not margined. Flower subsessile.., Calyx 

 |- in. ; lobes j^ ^ i n< > obtuse, glabrous. Corolla-lobes shorter than the tube ; folds 

 subentire ; fimbrise 0. Capsule ^ by ^ in. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, trigonous, twice as 

 long as broad ; testa close, smooth. 



12. G-. quadrifaria, Blume JBijd. 847 ; radical leaves |-1 in. ovate or 

 lanceolate, cauline smaller coriaceous often marginate, calyx-lobes lanceolate 

 acute rigid often subsquarrose, corolla ^- in. Griseb. Gentian. 276, and in 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 108. G. pedicellata, Wall. Cat. 4394; Griseb. Gentian. 273, and 

 in DC. Prod. ix. 107 ; Wight Ic. t. 1328 ; Clarke in Journ. Linn, Soc. ix. 435. 

 G. orbiculata, Heyne ; Wall. Cat. 4395. G. abscondita, Zenk. PL Ind. 11, t. 13. 

 G. zeylanica, Griseb. Gentian. 274, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 108. G. laxicaulis, 

 Zoll. ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. ii. 568. G. pumila, Griff. Ic. PL As. t. 384, fig. 2. 

 Gentiana sp. n. 749, Griff. Itin. Notes, 151. Ericala pedicellata, D. Don in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 514. E. quadrifaria, procumbens and orbiculata, G. 

 Don Gen. Syst. 190, 192, 193. 



