Vol. IT, No. 8.] Swertia angustifolia, Ham., and its Allies. 565 
[N.S. 
i.e., from the top of the Siwaliks between Kheri in the Saharanpur 
district and Dehra Dun; 8S. patens camefrom Missouri, and so did 
S tri ; 
and Therapeutics at King’s College, London. David Don was 
and presented it to the reader in his own way, probably to the 
annoyance of David, who in the Transactions quietly repudiates 
so it 
published in the General System as David Don's and repudiated 
by David Don in the Transactions is Ophelia porrigens. | |. 
ean Society in 1835: 
e name of Ophelia 
mes: and as we know that David touched 
none of Royle’s three names were called for ; ‘ 
porrigens is Swertia pulchella; that Swertia seorgect age i 
chella; and that Swertia trichotoma (Royle, svt de ech an 
Swertia angustifolia, Ham. The ae oe me I see that it 
gens Y and * patens,’ te. 
‘reaching forward’ and ‘ spreading’ were evidently given im 
antithesis to each other. : , 
David Don’s new genera were taken up 1 George Don's 
Rey es, Ericala earinata, E. 
| The other names are Ophelia ciliata, O. teres, the 
-coronata and E. procumbens. I suspect that all these were removed from 
manuscript between the date of its reading and of its printing. 
