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obtuse; corolla deep blue, 2-4 cm. long, campanulate, lobed three- 
fourths of the way to the base, the tube campanulate, the lobes 
obovate, rounded, entire, naked ; stamens two-thirds the length of 
the pistil, the filaments flattened, the anthers oblong, attached near 
their summits and accumbent, naked; pistil two-thirds as long as 
the corolla, the ovary linear- -oblong ; style ered: — and broad, 
the stigmas semi-circular, recurved; fruit not se 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1015). 
‘GENTIANA SEMINUDA Sp. n. 
Primary root short, stout, diffusely branched ; re tufted, as- 
cending, 1-4 cm. long, almost filiform, 1-flowered or rarely 
Sancied; basal leaves 'spatulate, thickish, Pr cm. long, 1.5- 
2.5 mm. broad ; cauline leaves iri but one or two pairs, ob- 
n: obtuse, I-nerved, 3-5 mm. long; flowers 5-merous; calyx 
m. long, lobed to a little Gees the middle, the tube narrowly 
icem: ate, with IO purple stripes, those continuous into the 
lobes broad, the alternate ones very narrow, the lobes linear-lan- 
ceolate, tapering gradually to an acutish point, the sinuses about 
twice as broad, obtusish to blunt; corolla bright blue, 1.5 cm. long, 
I cm. broad, lobed to a little below the middle, naked, entire, the 
tube campanulate, the lobes obovate, acutish; stamens reaching 
nearly to the middle of the corolla- lobes, the anthers yellow ; pistil 
equalling the stamens, the stigmas very short and broad; fruit not 
seen. 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1231). The calyx differs slightly from 
that of Mandon’s no. 363, but it may be the same species. It is 
very near G. imoselloides and also G. primulaefolia Griseb., but the 
sepals are too attenuate for either. 
GENTIANA VIRGATA Sp. n. 
Root stout; stems several, toutis but weak, ascending, 3-5 
dm. long, the internodes 4-6 cm. long; branches short, strictly 
erect, like the pedicels (2 or 3 cm. long), the inflorescence strictly 
virgate; basal leaves numerous, grass-like fleshy, 6-10 cm. long, 
. broad, obtusish, the cauline similar, 3 or 4 cm. long; flow- 
ers 5-merous; calyx 1 cm. long, lobed two-thirds of the way, the 
obscurely angled tube turbinate, the lobes triangular-lanceolate, 
tapering regularly from the base to the acute apex, narrower than 
the acute sinuses; corolla (yellowish with purple margins ?) 2 cm. 
long, lobed nearly three-fourths of the way to the base, naked, the 
tube turbinate, the lobes obovate with subrotund apex; stamens a 
little more than half as long as the corolla, the anthers blackish, 3 
mm. long, oblong; pistil a little exceeding the stamens; fruit not 
