FROM EASTERN TIBET AND SOUTH-WEST CHINA. 79 
segmenti inconspicuz; squamulz irregulariter laciniatee 3 mm. 
longe. Stamina ad basin corolle affixa, esqualia. Capsula 
oblonga v. subfusiformis 8 mm. longa cum stipite 1°5 mm. longo. 
“Summit of pass between Yangtse and Wei Hsi, Yangtse- 
Mekong divide. Also other places. Elevation g-11,000 feet. 
Flowers blue. Yunnan, Oct. 1904.” G. Forrest. No. 25. 
‘Dry open hillside, edge of pine-woods, Lang Kung and other 
valleys. Alt., 7-go0o feet. Yunnan, 1904.” G. Forrest. No. 211, 
SWERTIA. 
Swertia (Ophelia) purpurascens, Wall., var. violaceo-cincta, 
Franchet, in Bull. Soc. Bot., France, xlvi. (1899), p. 314. 
“Descent from Yangtse divide into Chien-Chuan valley, side of a 
lake, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. Flowers green, maroon centre. 
Height 1 to 2 feet. Yunnan, Oct. 1904.” G. Forrest. No. 225. 
Swertia (Ophelia) nervosa, Wall.; Franchet, in Bull. Soc. Bot., 
France, xlvi. (1899), p. 315. 
“Chung Tien plateau, open grassy situations. Alt., 12-13,000 
feet. N.-W. Yunnan, 1904.” G., Forrest. No. 206. 
Swertia (Ophelia) oe Wall.; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. F1. 
t. Ind., iv. (1383), p- 123. 
“Erect plant of 2 to 3 feet. Flowers pale yellowish white. Open 
places in pine-woods on lava beds in the Ming-Kwong valley, near 
Machang. Lat. 25°-15° N. Alt. 6500 feet. N.-W. Yunnan, Oct. 
1905.” G. Forrest. No. 950 
“Plant of 14 to 2 feet. Flowers white. Moist open situations 
around Lufchang, valley of the Salwen, Salwen-Irrawadi divide. 
Lat. 26° N. Alt. 4 to 5000 feet. N.-W. Yunnan, Nov. 1905.” 
G. Forrest. No. 1103. 
Swertia (Ophelia) bimaculata, C. B. Clarke; Forbes and Hemsley, 
in Journ. Linn. Soc., xxvi. (1890), p. 139; Franchet, in 
Bull. Soc. Bot., France, xlvi. (1899), p. 316; Gilg., in Engl. 
Jahrb., xxix. (1900), p. 539. 
“ Borders of padi fields in shady places south end of Chien-Chuan 
valley. Plant of from 2 to 3} feet. Alt. 8000 feet. Yunnan, 
1904.” G. Forrest. No. 164. 
