72 FORREST—GENTIANACE 
Var. alba. 
A plant that appears to be a white variety of this species is 
included in the collection from 
“Plateau on summit of pass between Wei Hsi and Chi Tien on 
the Yangtse. Yangtse-Mekong divide. Elevation 14,000 feet. 
uae cs snow, white. Yunnan, Oct. 1904.” GG. Forrest. 
No. 4 
Gentiana (Frigida) —— Balf. fil. et G. Forrest. 
Plate x 
Perennis czespitosa e collo Secs sub anthesi plurimis 
‘gemmibis suffulta, caulibus tomentosis decumbentibus demum 
erectis unifloris. Folia rosulata nulla ; caulinia semper 7-verticellata 
in vaginam unam plus minusve membranaceam coalita ; laminz 
verticillarum inferiorum ovatae v. obovatae 4-5 mm. longs 2 mm. 
latze vaginaque commune 2 mm. longa laminis continua, superiorum 
subflorem congestarum lineares 12 mm. longz 2 mm. late vagina 
8 mm. longa sinubus concavis, omnes acute margine minute albo- 
ciliate. Flores sessiles. Calyx foliorum verticilli verosimilitudine 
7-lobus, lobis 8 mm. longis, viridibus linearibus acutis, tubo 13 mm. 
longo 7-purpureo-vittato paullo brevioribus. Corolla magna, 
4-5 cm. longa late campanulato-infundibuliformis coerulescens 
punctata et 7 fasciis coloratis cceruleo-vittata 7-loba, lobis brevibus 
5 mm. longis deltoideis integris acuminatis, plicis truncato-erosis. 
Ovarium valide stipitatum, stylo brevissimo. 
“Bare grassland on western side of summit of Kari pass, also 
for some distance on descent to Shu Pa Lung valley. Yangtse- 
Mekong divide. Elevation 15-16,000 feet. Yunnan, Sept. 1904.” 
G, Forrest. No. 45. : 
“Kari pass. Near summit between Pung-tzu-la and Shi-zo. 
Yangtse-Mekong Golde ais Dry grassland. Yunnan. Elevation 
15,000 feet. Sept. 1904.” G,. Forrest. No. 405. 
A near ally of Franchet’s G. ¢ernifolia and of the G. hexaphylla ot 
Maximowicz, but distinguished at once by the leaves, seven in a 
whorl. A beautiful plant. 
Gentiana (Frigida) cephalantha, Franchet, in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Xxvi. (1890), p. 125; Kusnezow, in Acta Horti Petropol., 
XV. (1898), p. 274. 
“Descent from pass between Wei Hsi and the Yangtse. Yangtse- 
Mekong divide. In dry pine-woods at 1o-11,000 feet. Flowers 
blue. Yunnan, Oct. 1904.” G. Forrest. No. 28. 
