Gentiana.'] xcvu. GENTIANACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 117 



Stems 0-6 in., suberect, usually 1-2 flowering, and 1-2 barren from the same 

 root. Lower leaves 2 by J in. ; cauline shorter, connate at base into a short tube. 

 Flowers often 1-3 on each branch, shortly pedicellate or subspicate. Calyx-tube \ in., 

 teeth i in. ; sinus often plicate. Corolla-lobes in. acute. Capsule 1 by |- in., with 

 the stalk ^-\ in., included. 



VAR. parviflora ; corolla 1 by in. subtubular. Gentiana sp. n. 39, Herb. Ind. 

 Or. H. f. $ T. Sikkim, alt. 17,000 ft,; Kinchinjhow, J. D. #. This again is a 

 doubtful plant ; it appears to have been Collected with G. nubigena. 



SECT. IV. XLurroo. Stoutish herbs. Flowers racemose or spicate. 

 Corolla 1 in. or more, 5-lobed with, folds between the lobes ; fimbrise 0. Seeds 

 oblong trigonous or falcate, acute or subcaudate, not winged ; testa close, not 

 (or minutely obscurely) reticulated. 



32. Cr. XLurroo, Royle III. t. 68, fig. 2 ; leaves oblong or linear, flowers 

 solitary or few racemose, calyx-lobes subequal linear, corolla 2 by f in. Griseb. 

 Gentian. 304, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 110 ; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 440 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6470. Pneumonanthe Kurroo, D. Don in Royle III. p. 278, and 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 509. 



KASHMIR and JST.W. HIMALAYA, alt. 5-11,000 ft., common; Royle, &c. 



Rootstock stout, perennial : flowering stems 2-12 in., simple. Eadical leaves 3 

 by ^ in., tufted ; cauline 1 in., linear, connate at the base into a tube. Flowers 1-4 

 on each stem, sometimes truly racemed, more often an uppermost pair of leaves close 

 to the calyx. Calyx-tube \-\ in., not keeled ; lobes 3-^ in., linear, rarely suboblong. 

 Corolla-lobes ^ in., ovate, acute, sky-blue. Capsule f by | in.; stalk j | in. Seeds 

 twice as long as broad, acute at one end, subcaudate at the other. 



33. G-. decumbens, Linn.f. Suppl. 174; leaves oblong, flowers terminal 

 clustered and axillary, calyx very unequal often spathaceous or some of the 

 teeth ovate suddenly linear-pointed, corolla f-1 in. Bunge in Nouv. Mem. Soc. 

 Imp. Mosc. i. 212; Bot. Mag. tt. 705, 723; Griseb. Gentian. 279, and in DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 110 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 64 ; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 440. 

 G. adscendens, Pall. Fl. Ross. ii. 106, t. 94. Pneumonanthe adscendens, Schmidt 

 in Roem. Arch. i. 10. Dasystephana adscendens, Borkh. in Roem. Arch. i. 26. 

 Gentiana sp., Gmel. FL Sibir. iv. 103, t. 51, fig. A. 



BALTISTHAN and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 11-15,000 ft., eastwards to Lahul, Thom- 

 son, &c., common on the Karakorum. DISTRIB. Dahuria, Siberia. 



Rootstock stout ; flowering stems 2-10 in., simple. Eadical leaves 2 by j-^ in. ; 

 cauline 1-1^ in., oblong or elliptic, connate at the base into a tube. Flowers 1-2 

 subsessile in each upper axil, the upper 3-7 approximate, subcapitate, the axillary 

 clusters subremote or wanting. Calyx-tube ^ in., lobes f in. ; but the tube is often 

 split down one side nearly to the base, the lobes very unequal, 2-4 linear, 1-2 ovate 

 obtuse or obovate with linear teeth. Corolla funnel-shaped, lobes rounded. Capsule 

 $ by in. ; stalk %~ in. Seeds oblong, trigonous, falcate, twice as long as broad, 

 subobtuse at both ends, testa close. 



34. G. dahurica, Fisch. in Act. Soc. Nat. Scr. Mosq. iii. 63, with Jig. ; 

 leaves oblong, flowers terminal clustered with axillary often added, calyx-lobes 

 equal oblong-lmear, corolla f-1 in. Bunge in Nouv. Mem. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 

 i. 213. G. Olivieri, Griseb. Gentian. 278, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 110; Clarke in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 440 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 76. 



W. HIMALAYA ; Thomson, Hay.DisiniB. Beloochistan, Cabul, Dahuria, Soon- 

 garia. 



Only differs from G. decumbens by the equal calyx ; and it may be ^ questioned 

 whether the figure, Gmel. FL Sibir. t. 51, fig. A (on which G. decumbens is founded) 

 may not rather represent G. dahurica. 



