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papillose, the sinuses of similar form and size; corolla blue, naked 
and entire, 4 cm. long, lobed to the middle, the lobes obovate, 
rounded ; stamens and pistil reaching to the middle of the corolla- 
lobes, the anthers Sands 2 mm. long, oval, the. stigmas nearly 
circular, 2.5 mm. in diame 
Turedon, 1891 (II gU specimens of another species 
(perhaps. G: incurva Hook.) were mixed with this number in dis- 
tributing and may be recognized by their long (7 cm.) internodes, 
oblong leaves and triangular calyx-lobes. 
GENTIANA MANDONI sp. n. 
Erect, slender, 1-3 dm. high, the stems purple at the base, the 
branches erect and very slender, the internodes about 3 cm. long ; 
basal leaves none, the cauline 1.5-3 cm. long, 3-8 mm. broad, 
linear-oblong to ovate, acute, sub-3-nerved ; pedicels slender, ex- 
ceedingly variable in length, the longest 2 cm., papillose ; flowers 
5-merous; calyx papillose, 1-1.25 cm. long, cleft three-fourths 
ofthe way to the base, the tube narrowly campanulate, — 
angled, the 3-nerved lobes linear, tapering gradually to a very 
acute purple point, the sinuses acute; corolla pensete rose- 
purple, 1.5 to nearly 2 cm. long, about 7 mm. broad at the. sum- 
mit, infundibular-campanulate, the lobes only 5-6 mm. long, obo- 
vate, very acute, naked, entire, with darker margins; stamens 
reaching to the base of the- corolla-lobes, in some of the flowers 
reduced to vestiges 4-5 mm. in length, at the base of the: corolla; 
anthers 2 mm. long; pistil nearly as long as the corolla, the stipe 
of the ovary as long as the stamens, the style very short, the 
stigmas strongly flattened, 1.5 mm: long, oval with rounded apex ; 
fruit not seen. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1143). The same as Mandon’s no. 
365. Near G. Pearce? Phillippi, from Oranco, Chili, but that has 
rounded petals. 
GENTIANA SPECTABILIS Sp. n. 
Root stout, E stems several (and basal leaves numerous) 
from a many-hea crown, erect or ascending, purple at the base, 
2-2.5 dm. high, the internodes eue cm. long ; inflorescence virgate- 
asal leaves about I dm. long, I cm. broad, or. less, 
m 
linear-oblanceolate, sub-petioled by the long tapering base, 3- 
nerved, the apex rounded or blunt; Saute leaves sessile, 2 or 3 
cm. long, similar, or lanceolate ; flowers loosely cymose, the pedi- 
cels 2-5 cm. long, slightly enlar. ged upward, sharply angled or 
narrowly w wifided: flowers 5-merous; calyx 2 cm. long, the tube 
one-third of its length, Girhi hate- cami pann iE, 8-angled, the lobes 
lanceolate, tapering from the base to an acute apex; the sinuses 
