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49, On Swertia angusti. jolia, Ham., and its Allies.—By 1. H. Burk. 
The plants which will be discussed in the following pages 
1, Swertia nervosa, Wa ll. 
2. Swertia ie ee ce (including 8. 4p ete mean 
S.a . B. Clarke, and S. vacillans, Maxim 
3. Swertia pari tae Baan 
4. Swertia exacoides, Burkill. 
9. Swertia trichotoma, Wight. 
6. Swertia corymbosa, Wight. 
7. Swertia zeylanica, Walker. 
8. Swertia Lawii, Burkill. 
9. Swertia Beddomei, C. B. Clarke. 
-all species of India and China. 
The paper is written to clear up a troublesome group in 
advance of an enumeration of me the species of Asia and a 
discussion regarding their distribut 
At the date (1828) of the ithographing of Wallich’s ile 
able Catalogue of the dried plants in the Herbarium of the Hast 
ompany, the following mace toy te of the eonree of Swertia 
angustifolia had been collected :— 
de Bperimens collected at Narainhetty in Nepal by Dr. 
Fra is Hamilton (afterwards Buch anan-Hamilton ), and 
wie red by him 4373a. 
Spectatons collected in Kamaon by Robert Blinkworth, an 
ree of Wallich, and numbered by the latter 
a 
4373b. 
sersciniti collected in Sirmur by Captain A. Gerard of the 
mpany’s service, who journeyed in the North-Western 
Himalayas nen 1817 onwards surveying, and like his 
arly — , Dr. Govan, was a corre yt rrespondent of 
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8 seins oie in Nepal at Protappur by Hamilton 
rnd named by him Swertia pulchella. Wallich apie 
received these, numbered them ; 
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