Vol. Ill, No. 8.] 



On Gentiana coronata^ Royle. 



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Kashmir, north of the Vale. — Oa the Pensi-la 

 between Suru and Zanskar (Stoliczka!). 



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No. 4. I DOW come to a series of specimens that has for ex- 

 treraes Gentiana margmata of the Herbarium Indiae Orientalis 

 Hooker filii et T, Thomson, and G. Hugeliiy Grisebach. Gentiana 

 Hugelu has been so recently fi^rured in this Journal (see 1906,, 

 p. 337) that I need not figure it again. Gentiana marginata I 

 figure from a specimen collected by I )r. Thomson, 



The name * marginata ' was fi.rst used (in manuscript) as Gen- 



tiana 



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obtained iu Central Nepal. It was next used as Ericala marginata 



Wall 



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Type 4. Specimen collected by T. Thomson and distributed as G. margi- 

 nata in the Herb. Ind. Or. Hook f. efc Thorns. The dissections x 2. 



lected by Royle ; this last is one of the plants with which we are 

 hei'e to deal, but the otJjer is not. Royle's plant is fully described, 

 without reference to Wallich's, in Don's paper in the Transactions 

 of the Linnean Society, xvii., 1839, p. 513 ; and from this date the 

 stricter application of the name to Royle's plant begins, so that it 

 appears as Qeiiilana marginata in Grisebach's acco\int of the 

 Gentianaceae in De Candolles's Prodromtis. Royle's plant seems 

 to be identical in race with T. Thomson's : but not having a speci- 

 men of Royle*s collection at hand, I cannot be positive* My 

 remarks consequently refer to Gentiana mn'trginata^ Griseb., as inter- 

 preted by Sir Joseph Hooker and Dr. Thomson, and, I may add> 



