Gentianea.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 27 
theris exsertis tortis. Ovarium uni- v. semi-biloculare ; stylo decitl no ; Miginatilms rotun 
bivalvis, placentis spongiosis. Semina placentae immersa, minuta. — Ilerba 1 an nine: caule suhaniji'l-'h 
foliis basi connatis. 
A European genus, containing also several North and South American, Asiatic. African. Polynesian, ai 
Australian species, distinguished from Sebeea, which it resembles in habit, by tin- twitted Bribers and nnilocnl 
ovary. E. amtralis is the only Australian species, ami forms a slender, erect herb, a foot high, with oblon 
blunt, three-nerved leaves, and numerous subsecund, almost sessile, spiked, pink flowers. Calyx about the leng 
of the tube of the corolla; tube elongated, limb four-cleft. CoroU<t-hhv> very narrow. (Name from tpvOpo-;. m 
in allusion to the colour of the flowers.) 
1. Erytnraea australis (Br. Prodr. 451); caule stricto ramoso, foliis oblongis obtusis :>-m m 
floribus subsecundis subsessilibus, corolla 5-fida lobis angustis. — Grisebaeli in DC. Prodr. vm. W. 
Hab. Wet saline marshes on the banks of the Tamar, Gunn. 
Distrib. Australia, from the tropics to Victoria and Swan River ; Isle of Pines. 
Gen. III. GENTIANA, L. 
Calyx 4-5-fidos. Corolla infundibuliformis v. hypocrateriformi?, 1-5-fnla. H'a,,,,^ l-.>;amlic 
non tortse, connectivo instructse. Ovarium 1-loculare; stylo brevi v. ; stigmatibus pcrsistenti >us. 
' sula 1-locularis, bivalvis; semina placentis immersa, immarginata. — Herba ; 
rumque amarce ; foliis oppositis ; floribus speciosis, in tp. Tasmania t 
flavescentibus. 
A very extensive genus of beautiful herbaceous plants, abounding in the Alps ol hnrope, the I lima a\ a, ;. 
especially in the Cordillera of South America; also common in Northern and temperate hnrope, >nt 
the Arctic regions ; none are found in very hot climates, and a few species inhabit the Nmth tempeiate 
the alps of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, and the Antarctic islands of Lord Auckland's Croup, (amph 
Island and Fuegia. The species are usually very variable in stature and branching, and size and form of leaf a 
flower, the same species being low or tall, prostrate or erect, simple or branched, large- or small-flowered, abo m 
ing in the colour of the corolla, and size and form of the calyx-lobes.-Herbaceous plants, mo 
the taste (especially the roots, which are frequently yellow in colour), and with simple 
bent stems, with opposite, entire, exstipulate leaves, and dichot 
tite. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped, with a spreading or erect four- or five-lobed fad, «-_ ft* tm ** 
on the corolla. Ovary one-celled, with marginal placentae and very numerous ovules. St W na two- lobed. Og* 
two-valved. Seeds not winged. (Named in honour of Gentius, King of Illyria, who, accordmg to Plmy, mtro- 
duced the use of the root into medicine.) 
_ ms a. -n m lQQ^ovirmn mule erecto simplici v. e basi ramoso, r. 
1. Gentiana montana (Forst. Prodr. 166) ; annua, came erixiuamipi 
v. basi deeumbentibus 1-floris v. lase corymbosis, Mb radicalibus obovato-spathulat.s obtus,, caubms 
omnibus v. supers tantua, ovatis ellipticisve, peduncolis graeihbus, lobis calycms bnean.ub,, ,„-,,,. , 
ribusve obtusis, corolla 5-flda campanula v. infundibuliforn,i.ca m p - ~'»- " ■ 
450; Grissiack in DC. Prod, ix. 99 , Fl. N. Zeal. i. 178. G. Grisebacho, Net. m Hook. Ic. Plant. 
«*-V n9 ' ""I ._. __•«_ _ ^ mWfomi h» termini, corolla, 
Grkeb. Gent. 224 ; DC. Prodr. 
■lobed or -par- 
Var. 0. Diemensis; caulibus 1-2-pedalibus gracilibus cyma coiymbifonm 
tre campanula^ segmentis calycem paulo superantibus.— G. Diemensis, n — 
' C ' Va, ^pleurogynoiaTes; caule crassiusculo erecto e basi ramoso ramis apice corymbosis, flonbus a 
plis, coroUa calyce duplo longiore.— G. pleurogynoides, Grueh. I. c. ; DC. Prodr. I. c. p. . 
