368 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. | August, 1906. 
Three of the Wallichian specimens are not referred to by Grisebach. 
He also described Ophelia zeylanica from Ceylon, specimens of whic 
had been collected by Colonel James T. Walker who was in Ceylon 
French naturalist and traveller, Perrottet. I am unfortunately 
unable here to say anything about Ophelia corymbosa, var., elatior, 
the type of which I have not seen. 
ear later than Grisebach’s second work, Edgeworth of the 
Bengal Civil Service published in the Tran:actions of the Linnean 
Society, xx., p. 85, a escription of a new plant which he calle 
Ophelia pratensis and had got from the Sub-Siwalik tracts, not far 
from Saharanpur, a plant with a yellowish flower, short acute 
sepals and scales over the nectary scarcely ciliate-lacerate. The 
~ type is at the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and 
itis just Swertia pulchella with, if Edgeworth did not make a 
mistake, a yellow flower instead of a lilac one. 
Over the years before 1850 Wight had been busy in the south 
of India collecting material which chiefly saw the day in two 
ii., with which we are here concerned. In these two works 
Swertia trichotoma, Wall., converted into Ophelia trichotoma, and 
another, the Ophelia corymbosa described by Grisebach. 
In the “ Tcones ” In the “ Illustrations ” 
olume IV, olume IT. 
Plate 1329, O. corymbosa, Wight | Plate 157, 3a, O. wmbellata. 
3b, O ; 
ex 
j ” ” J, APfUNis. 
Plate fee’ s sae espn Roe on » 99g, O. trichotoma. 
» tevol, U. elegans (not of 2 s 
Wallich). ( . s  » 3c, O. Lawi 
In the Icones he described ful] sia 
mee y the plants figured: in the Illus- 
trations the plants are only figured to aie aeckichlar points in 
ower, quite a characteristic, but weak plant: Dr. 
ernard Schmid had sent the seeds from the Nilgiri Hille to Kew, 
