122 xcvu. GENTIANACE2E. (C- B. Clarke.) [Siv&rtia. 



usually interrupted in the middle, hence from behind the corolla-lobe appears bi- 

 glandulose near the base ; the foveola or pit is below this, in the corolla-tube, and is 

 a watch-pocket slit, never more than one to each corolla-segment. 0. ciUdta is 

 founded on some scraps of Royle's with most minutely ciliate petioles, nowise differ- 

 ing from the type. There is a form (? dimorphic) in which the stamens are not half 

 so long as the corolla-lobes, the anthers- linear. 



2. S. paniculata, Wall. Cat. 4374, and PL As. liar. iii. 3, t. 205; 

 leaves oblong or lanceolate 3-1-nerved, filaments linear separately attached to 

 the corolla-tube, style long stigmas linear. Ophelia paniculata, D. Don in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 525 ; Griseb. Gentian. 314, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 124; 

 Sot. Mag. 5687, fig. 5, 6. O. Wallichii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 178. 



TEMPERATE W. HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft.; from Kashmir to Nepal, Wallich, 

 &c. 



Close resemblance to S. purpurascens, when dried. Sepals | in., oblong, acute, 

 sub-1-nerved. Corolla-lobes |- in., ovate, acute, white in the upper half, patent not 

 reflexed in flower ; pit very near the base of the corolla, 1 to each lobe, naked ; near 

 the base of the corolla-lobe are 2 purple or lurid-green snbglandular marks, some- 

 times confluent into one. Filaments hardly dilated downwards, not puberulous ; 

 anthers oblong, not hastate. Capsule 5 in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Seeds as 

 of S. purpurascens but rather smaller. The var. brachypetala, Griseb. Gentian., .314, 

 was founded on Waliich's type of S. paniculata; but Grisebach subsequently marked 

 examples of S. dilatata (n. 4 below) as var. brachypetala. 



3. S. G-riffithii, Clarke, leaves narrowly lanceolate 3-1-nerved, panicles 

 dense, calyx-lobes lanceolate rigid 3-nerved connate below, filaments linear 

 free, style long stigmas linear. Gentianea n. 1006, Griff". Itin. Notes, 189. 



BHOTAN ; Lamnos, alt. 9000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5883). 



Possibly an eastern var. of S. paniculata. Examples are 4-7 in., very rigid, 

 branched, dense with leaves and fruit. Leaves 1 by in. Pedicels mostly - 1 in. 

 Capsules rather smaller than in S. paniculata. 



4. S. dilatata, Clarke ; leaves lanceolate 3-1-nerved, filaments much 

 dilated for more than half their length puberulous not connate into a tube at 

 the base, style cylindric stigmas sublinear. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 4-12,000 ft., common; J. D. H., &c. NEPAL; Wal- 

 lich. 



Resembling S. paniculata, but with larger flowers and capsules ; and the stamens 

 more like those of S. purpurascens. Leaves glabrous, base minutely ciliate. Sepals 

 -| in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, much broader than in S. paniculata. Corolla 

 usually shorter than the sepals ; lobes greenish yellow, a transverse purple continuous 

 band near the base ; a pit horse-shoe-shaped on the corolla-tube, one for each lobe. 

 Filaments usually more dilated than in S. purpurascens, sometimes nearly to the 

 summit, while at the base they are contracted, separate. Capsule ^- in. 



VAR. pilosa ; leaves pilose on both surfaces with ciliate margins and nerves, pedi- 

 cels and sepals ciliate. Nepal ; J. Scully. 



5. S. tetragfona, Clarke; leaves lanceolate 3-1-nerved, filaments linear 

 free, style stigmas of 2 closely approximated hemispheric plates. Ophelia 

 tetragona, Edyew. in. Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 86. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 fc. ; from Kashmir to Simla, abundant ; Edge- 

 worth, Thomson, &c. 



Resembling in general appearance S. paniculata. Sepals % in., narrowly lanceo- 

 late. Corolla-lobes more than ^ in., whitish ; near the base on either side of each 

 lobe is an oblong vertical hairy gland; no pit at the base of the corolla-tube but a 

 shining obscure concavity, of which (as in other species) the two oblong glands are 

 the more prominent upper margins. Anthers oblong, hastate to the middle. Capsule 



