Vol. II, No. 8.] Swertia angustifolia, Ham., and its Allies. 369 
[N.S.] 
where the plant was raised. In 1863 in the same Journal—a vol- 
ume dedicated to Wight—Sir William Hooker figured on plate 5397 
as Ophelia umbellata «plant with a pale-blue veined flower and a 
lax inflorescence. In 1868 Sir Joseph Hooker figured on plate 
5687, as fig. 3 of the plate, a lilac flowered plant received by 
him from Mr. I. Anderson Henry of Edinburgh—a keen grower 
of plants from seeds that he received from relations in the North- 
Western Himalaya and from friends who visited Sikkim. The 
first of these plants is undoubtedly the same species as Wight’s 
Ophelia corymbosa. The second exactly matches Wight’s type. 
The third I consider the same variety of Swertia angustifolia os 
is Hamilton’s plant. 
Wight’s Icones are not coloured: but in the attached de- 
scriptions of the species he says that the flower of Ophelia corymbosa 
is “blue” and that the flower of Ophelia elegans is “ light blue.” 
been figured by Wight and Arnott from life, and it is very ques- 
tionable how much reliance should be placed upon their colours. 
Herewith a summary of them :— 
Ophelia corymbosa, said by Wight_to be blue-flowered, figared 
undoubtedly correctly in the Botanical Magazine as lilac. 
griesbachiana, colour not stated by Wight. 
. elegans, said by Wight to be pale blue. ai 
O. umbellata, figured by Wi ht as very pale lilac; by Sir 
William Hooker as white with blue veins and a bine flush. 
. affinis, figured by Wight as lilac. 
O. trichotoma, figured by Wight as lilac, 
Lawii, figured by Wight as lilac; described by Dalzell as 
white. 
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