GENTIANA.] GENTIANACE&. 75 



ous parts of the Old World, a few occurring on the Andes and in 

 New Zealand and Australia. Forty species are described in the Flora 

 o British India, the majority of which are Himalayan. 



Leaves green, calyx-lobes broad . . 1, G. pedicellata. 

 Leaves silvery, shining ; calyx-lobes nar- 

 row, pointed 2. G.aprica. 



1. G, pedicellata, Wall. Cat. 9394 ; Clarke in Journ. Lin^i- Soc. xiv, 435. 

 G. quadrifaria, Clarke in F. B. I. iv, 111 (not of B'jUin?) ; Collett FL Siml. 

 324. Ericila pedicellata, D. Don in Trans. Linn. 801. xvii, 514. 



Whole plant 2^-5 in. high. Steins many, slender, much branched, usually 

 procumbent. Lewes dark green, not margined ; radical rosulate, 

 spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to the base, 3-nerved ; cauline 

 smaller, spreading or recurved, mucronate Flowers in terminal cymes, 

 s in. long, blue or greenish-yellow. Calyx about half as long as the 

 corolla, lanceolate, acute, rigid, often subsquarrose. Corolla 5-lobed ; 

 lobes ovate, acuminate. Capsule stipitate, narrowed to the base. 



Dehra, Dun and on both sides of the Siwalik range up to 3,0 '0 ft. Flowers 

 in March. DISTRIB. Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan up to 

 10,000 ft., also on the Khaaia tiilla, the Deccan Mts. and those of Ceylon, 

 extending to Burma, Java and probably to China. 



2. G. aprioa, Dcni. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 112, t> 118 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 

 324. G. decemfida, var. aprica, Clarke in F. B. I. iv, 112. Ericala decemfida, 

 D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xoii, 514 ; Koyle III. 277. 



A glabrous erect annual. Stems stiff, 3-10 in. high, simple or with many 

 ascending branches. Leaves silvery, shining, radical rosulate, ^-f in. 

 long, broadly ovate, mucronate, 3-aerved, glaucous beneath ; cauline i 

 in. long, narrowly lanceolate, aristate, conduplicate, connate at the base; 

 uppermost smaller, subulate. Flowers blue, subpaniculate, pedicels 

 often 4 in. long. Calyx -3-fid., about half as long as the corolla ; lobes 

 narrow, finely pointed. Corolla-lobes lanceolate, acuminate. Capsule f 

 in. long, obovate or cuneate, stipitate, usually included, valves with 

 pale-coloured edges. 



Abundant on rocks and grassy banks throughout the Siwalik range, also 

 in Dehra, Dan. Flowers in March and April. DISTBIB. Himalaya 

 from below Simla to Kumaon up to 3,OQt) ft. ; also in Upper Burma. 



5. HOPPEA, Willd. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 100. 



Small, much branched, glabrous herb*. Leaves small, opposite, 

 sessile. Flowers sessile or shortly pedicelled, in 2-3-ohotoinous cymes. 

 Calyx oampaaulate ; lob3S 4, ovate, acuminate. Corolla urceolato 



