FROM EASTERN TIBET AND SOUTH-WEST CHINA. 75 
bus. Corolla tubulosa ccerulescens punctulata, 3 cm. longa, lobis 
ovatis acutis apiculatis 5 mm. longis margine subundulatis, plicis 
ovatis cceruleis erosis lobis fere zequilongis. _Ovarium longe 
stipitatum. 
“Descent from Niu Chang Pass to Chung Tien Plateau. Eleva- 
tion, 13-14,000 feet. Open grassy places in _ pine-woods. 
Flowers, bright — closing inert ne plant is plucked. 
Yunnan, Sept. 19 G. Forrest. No. 4 
A near ally ne . Rockhil, Hemsl., Bik more branched, has 
longer leaves, is scaberulous, has a ionger corolla with slightly 
crenate apiculate lobes, and the plicze are blue. 
Gentiana (Chondrophylla) taliense, Balf. fil. et G. Forrest. 
OSES THO’, 
Annua 4 cm. alta, a basi dense breviterque ramosa, caulibus 
minutissime scabriusculis. Folia basalia majora oblonga elongata 
d 3°5 cm., 13 mm. lata. subcrassa, superiora elliptica, suprema 
anguste enceolata, omnia plus minusve albomarginata carinataque, 
margine minutissime scaberula, apice recurvata aristata. Flores 
brevissime pedicellati. Calyx tubum corollz superans, tubo mem- 
branaceo campanulato exalato 3 cm. longo, lobis lanceolatis 4 cm 
longis carinatis margine membranaceis apice aristatis. Corolla 
tubulosa alba v. coerulea ad staminum insertionem aurantiaca, tubo 
8 mm. longo, lobis rotundato-triangularibus mucronulatis vix 2 
mm. longis, plicis vix lobis brevioribus subtruncatis crenulato- 
erosis. Stamina zequalia filamentis basi incrassatis. Ovarium 
complanatum 4 mm. longum 2°5 mm. latum cum stipite 1°5 mm. 
longo discoque 5- gono cincto, anguste alatum, apice rotundatum 
ibique ala quaque in duas alas minute dentatas fissa; stylo breve 
ad basin usque bifido ramis revolutis. Capsula vix exserta ala 
apice incrassata ; semina fusiformia trigona, testa obscure areolata 
cellulis in longum extensis. 
“On grassy slopes around Tali. Abundant on interior of city 
walls. Flowers ranging from white to deep blue, centre orange 
yellow. Elevation 6500-8000 feet. Yunnan, S.-W.-Ch 
February 1905. No. 702 
A species of the atts of G. pedicellata, Wall., of which the limits 
are variously drawn by authors. It ma y be that the plant 
here described is a particularly xerophilous ea of it, but none 
of the descriptions of forms of G. pedicellata, nor specimens quite 
match it. 
