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a6* On Geutlana coronata, Roylc. 



By I. H. BuKKiiiL. 



The following paper aS written with the specimens of the 

 •Calcutta herbarium and the specimens of the Saharanpur her- 

 barium before me : and it is founded chiefly on them. The most 

 satisfactory way, I find, of treating my subject is to figure 

 <3ertaiD types, and to indicate the intermediates. I shall therefore 

 proceed to give figures (made for me by Babu K. P. Dass of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta) of nine types, and discuss them. 

 These nine are : — 



the type-form of JEuryihalia carinata^ Don (1836) = Gentiana 

 carinata, Griseh. (1839), and G. carlnata, type, of G, B. 

 Clarke in Sir Joseph Hooker's Flora of British India, 



iv., p. 113 ; 



the type form of EurytJialia coronata, Don (1836) = Gen tiana 



coronata, Royle (1837) ; 



a plant from Chamba which has escaped a name ; 



the plant which is the Gentiana marginata of the Herbarium 

 Indiae Orientalis Hooker filii et T. Thomson, and at the 

 same time the Gentiana carinata, var. marginata, of 

 C. B. Clarke in Sir Joseph Hooker's Flora of British 

 India, iv., p. 113, and presumedly the Ericala marginata, 

 Don {1837} = Gentiana marginata, Griseb, (1839) ; 



a form allied to G. Hugelif, Griseb.. collected in the south 

 l^nge of Kashmir; \} 



a branched soft-leaved form found in Kasbmir ; 



a branched firm-leaved form found in Kashmir ; 



fche type form of Gentiana marginata^ var., • recurvatuy 



Kusnezow (1904) ; 



border 



moun- 



No, 1. I commence with EurythaUa carinata^ of which I 

 find a type in the herbariam of the Saharanpur Botanic 

 Garden, together with many specimens collected in recent years. 

 1 figure it from one collected by Mr. J. F, Dufchie on the 

 tain of Kedarkanta in the State of Tehri-Gai*hwal. 



The figure shows the linear-lanceolate leaves which constitute 

 one of the most noticeable characteristics of the plant. These 

 leaves are not the first-formed leaves, which are ovate-lanceolate 

 and sometimes conduplicate, as Don describes them; but they 

 are generally removed from the base by a few pairs. The plant 

 does not branch from the root: it is erect, generally only a couple 

 of ini^hes high: but even when five inches high, it is still un- 

 hranched below, except in the rarest specimens : I have seen one. 



Don, with only a few plants before him, did not get hold of 



