Swertia.'] xcvu. GENTIANACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 129 



27. S. Thomson!, Clarke; lower cauline leaves long-petioled oblong or 

 elliptic scarcely connate upper often sessile, cymes forming a narrow panicle, 

 flowers 5-merous, glands near the base of the corolla-lobes obscure, seeds smooth 

 narrowly or irregularly winged. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kashmir ; Sonamurg, alt. 9250 ft., Thomson, Clarke. 



Eesembling in leaves and habit S. petiolata, but with more numerous smaller 

 flowers and capsules. Pcdttncles often 6 in. Sepals % by ~ in., acute. Corolla-lobes 

 3 by | in., subobtuse ; glands 2 yellow spots very close to the base of the corolla, 

 altogether obscure in T. Thomson's fine examples, usually naked, rarely minutely 

 hairy. Capsule 5-3 in. Seeds jV-^o m -> globose, somewhat angular, wing very partial 

 and irregular ; testa close, smooth, microscopically reticulate (hence glistening). 



28. S. cuneata, Wall Cat. 4380 ; cauline leaves spathulate-oblong or 

 petioled, peduncles long mostly 3-1-flowered, corolla 5-merous, glands linear 

 vertical 2 near the edge of each corolla-lobe, seeds ^ in. angular ellipsoid smooth 

 not winged. D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 520 ; Griseb. Gentian. 333, and 

 in DC. Prodr. ix. 133. S. Hugelii, Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 133. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 11-14,000 ft.; from Simla to Sikkim; Wallich, Eoyle, 

 J. D. H., &c. 



Stem 6-24 in., hollow, in. thick. Leaves 3 by f in., usually obtuse. Pedicels 

 -2, in., mostly long. Sepals ^-% in., narrowly oblong, obtuse acute or spathulate 

 and apiculate. Corolla-lobes ^- by ^- in., obtuse ; the 2 glands h'mbriate with hairs 

 ^ in. long or nearly naked. Stigmas of 2 sessile hemispheric plates. Capsule ^ in. 

 Seeds black-brown ; testa close, reticulated. 



29. S. ccerulea, Royle 111. 278, t. 67, fig. 1 ; cauline leaves oblong sessile 

 or the lower spathulate, pedicels short, corolla 5-merous, glands oblong small, 

 seeds / 5 in. polyhedral smooth. D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 521 ; Griseb. 

 in DC. Prodr. ix. 132. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; alt. 5-9000 ft., Eoyle ; Chumba, Clarke. 



Stem 6-18 in., -^ in. thick. Leaves nearly as of S. cuneata. Cymes forming a 

 linear dense panicle, peduncles short, pedicels rarely longer than the flowers. Sepals 

 - in., narrowly lanceolate. Corolla-lobes f by ^ in., ovate, acute, blueish with green 

 nerves, glands with small oblong slightly fimbriate scales. Stigmas sessile, hemi- 

 spheric. Capsule | by in., narrowly oblong. Seeds yellow-brown ; testa close, 

 reticulated. Differs from S. cuneata in its corolla and seeds, and is excessively near 

 Pleurogyne rotata ; the difference is that in Pleurogyne the two scales near the base 

 of each corolla-lobe are subconfluent, forming a nearly continuous hairy ring near the 

 base of the corolla, without any definite depressions or viscous marks on the corolla- 

 lobe above them ; while in Swertia cartilea there are two oblong minute depressions 

 above the base of each corolla-lobe with an oblong scale fimbriated on its upper edge 

 produced above the base of each depression so as partially to cover it. 



VAR. Wattii; pedicels 1-2 in., sepals f by in., corolla-lobes hardly longer than 

 the sepals, scales at their base more developed. Pangi, alt. 13,000 ft.; Dr. Watt. 

 This, except in the large calyx, closely resembles some forms of S.percnnis (see Enyl. 

 Hot. t. 1441), which has seeds totally unlike S. ccerulea; but Dr. Watt's example 

 being in young flower is not certainly determinable. 



SUBGENUS III. Foephila. Perennial herbs with numerous short branches 

 from the rootstock. 



30. S. multicaulis, Don Prodr. 127 ; leaves narrowly spathulate-oblong, 

 cymes very compound pedicels long, corolla 5-merous, a small pit at the base of 

 each lobe with marginal firnbrise. Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 134 ; Clarke in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 449. 



ALPINE NEPAL and SIKKIM, alt. 14-17,000 ft., Wallich, J. D. H., &c. 

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