366° Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (August, 1906. 
General System ; and we find the name Ophelia dso dD. 
Don, standing for Swertia angustifolia, Ham. ; a florida, 
D: Don, standing for Swertia florida, Wall. ; and ea nervosa, 
D. Don, for Swertia nervosa, Wall.: but we do not get Ophelia 
pulchella for Swertia pulchella, Ham., but Ophelia porrigens, D.. 
Don. The species S. nervosa and S. florida had not been described. 
before: the names had stood as nomina nuda in Wallich’s 
porrigens on Sa ape numbers 6 and 7; Ophelia florida om 
numbers 8 and 9; and Agathodes nervosa on ‘numbers 10 and 11. 
Number 5 Be 12 seem to have been overlooked. 
In the Transactions of the Linnean Society, David Oe bases 
his A angustifolia on the whole of the specimens so na y 
ich, z.¢., on numbers 1, 2,3,4. and 5: and his Ophelia oulchilel 
on pe 6. He adds an Ophelia pulchella, var., minor—a com- 
bination of number 7 above with the peocenen, collected by Royle 
and named in MS. Swertia patens am inclined to regard 
—? plant as not varietally ‘dentical with Wallich’s, but the 
erence between the two is very little. The specimens of 
Prodromus, Vol. ix. (Paris). Grisebach, like David Don, regards 
Ophelia as a distinct genus; and he names all the plants as in 
the table opposite. — angustifolia, S. pulchella, i ee 
and §. nervosa becoming Ophelia angustifolia, O. chella, 
O. florida and O, oe “Ophelia pulchella var., minor, ae bea 
0. pulchella, var., pum 
