Vol III, No. 3.] On Gentuma coronata, Kovle. 155 



uata. Calyx dentibus linearibus. Corolla infundibuli- 

 formis, qiiinq ueloba, lobis lanceolatis acuminatis, sinuum 

 duplo brevioribus. Atithera? lineares. 

 Gentiana coronaia— Planta depresaa, subacaulis. Folia acuta. 

 Calyx dentibus ovatis. Corolla tubulosa, decemloba, lobis 

 ovatis, obsolute mucronnlatis, sinuum conformibus vel 

 brevioribus. Antherag oblong^e. 



The peculiarities wbicli cannot bear the stresR that Don 

 lays on them are : 



(1) the tip of fixe leaf; for the same plant of ^ cariuata ' may 

 or may not have the tiny mucro at the tip of any one leaf; 



(2) the shape of the calyx-teeth ; for in * carinata ' above there 

 is a complete series from more or less linear to ovate, 

 and Royle's own specimen at Saharanpur has lanceolate 

 (not linear) lobes ; 



(3) the size and shape of the corolla lobes ; because in good 

 'carinata' the lobes vary enough to cover the characters 

 ascribed to both. 



I set these declared differences aside. There are left (i) Don's 

 statement that the corolla in the one is infundibuliform and in 

 the other tubular, and (ii) his difference in the anthers. ''Infundi- 

 bular/' says Don, is the corolla of GenHana amtorta and capitata 

 and carinata^ as well as the calyx of capitata^ while 

 " tubular '* are the calyces and corollas of Gentiana marginatuy 

 argenteuj decemfida, pedicellata and coronata. These species, if any- 

 one will examine them, ser\^e to show that Don did not habitually 

 use the two terms with such a degree of accuracy as to justify 

 us in thinking that the words contrast in his two descriptions. 

 Lastly, regarding the anthers, which are termed linear in the one 

 and oblong in the other, Don is quite accurate in regnrd to the 

 anthers of his carinata: they are so, in his specimens; but in all 

 the other specimens that I have before me they are oblong. 



Thus 1 arrive at the conclusion that besides the somewhat 

 uncertain difference in the broadness of the corolla-tube, there 



is nothing to distinguish Don*s Eurythalia coronata from his 



Surythalia carinata, except the branched habit : and as Gentiana 

 coronata is the oldest binominal for the species, we have to accept 

 it instead of Gentiana carinata, otherwise preferable, on account 

 of the obscurity into which the name G. coronata has fallen. 



No, 3. Type No. 3 is a plant branching from the roots, but 

 not as the last. Its outline is spherical, because there are so many 

 short branches: the leaves are lanceolate-ovate to ovate, some- 

 times conduplicate : the flowers are fasciculate, and the calyx- 

 teeth are ovate, obtuse. 



This form comes from Chamba and adjoining Lahul. The 



localities are as foUows : 



State of Chamba,— Kilar (Ellis, 51!) and Purli in the 



