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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Gentiana argentea, 



Gentianace^. 

 F. B. Liv. 112. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-12,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Murree (Douie). 



Gentiana capitata, 



Gentianace^. 

 F. B. Liv. 113. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-12,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Gentiana carinata, 



GENTIANACEiB. 



F. B. Liv. 113. 



Himalaya, 

 8-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Gentiana 

 cachemirica, 



GENTIANACEiE. 



F. B. Liv. 115. 



Himalaya, 

 9-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Gentiana venusta, 

 Gentiana nubigena, 



Petals united. 



small, annual, almost exactly like the last species, 

 but the leaves are more silvery and the uppermost leaves 

 surround the flovi^ers which are closely clustered almost 

 into a head. 



small, annual, stems branched or not, bare of leaves 

 below ; leaves | by |-| in., green, broadly ovate with a 

 broad tip, thick, shining with a bristle at the tip ; flowers 

 I in. long, blue or white, sessile, clustered in leafy heads 

 |-| in. diam., calyx I in., lobes ^ in., 5, oblong, short- 

 pointed, edges thin, corolla ^-| in., lobes 5, folds with a 

 notch at the tip, stamens and style as in the last species ; 

 capsule I in. long and broad, round, flattened, stalk ^ in., 

 nearly enclose^d in the calyx, seeds many, very small, 

 oblong, with rounded ends, nearly twice as long as broad, 

 smooth, 3-angled. 



small, annual, stem branched ; radical leaves If by 

 I in., persistent, oblong-lanceolate, sessile, short-pointed, 

 stem leaves similar, smaller, curved ; flowers nearly sessile, 

 lateral and terminal clustered, calyx tube | in., lobes 5, 

 ^ in., shorter than the tube, lanceolate, long-pointed, 

 erect, corolla I by | in,, tubular, fringed, lobes 5, folds 

 bifid, stamens and style as in the last species ; capsule I 

 by I in., oblong with rounded ends, flattened, seeds many, 

 small, oblong with rounded ends, nearly 3-angled, smooth. 



small, annual, branches often long, leafy and numerous 

 from the root ; radical leaves 1 by -J in., ovate, oblong, broad- 

 er at the tip, short-pointed with a bristle at the point, stem 

 leaves |-| in. ; flowers 1-1 J in., blue, solitary, sessile, calyx 

 tube ^ in., bell-shaped, lobes 5, J in., oblong with a broad 

 tip, a broad space between the lobes, corolla 1-1 J in., tubular 

 with a bell-mouth, lobes 5, 5 in., ovate, short-pointed, 

 erect, folds between the lobes, stamens and styles as in 

 last species ; capsule | by ^ in., seeds many, small, round, 

 glistening, white. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Simple, Entire. 



