PLAT *E . CCOCZXVHI. 
GENTIANA CATESBA1 
— Cateshy’s Gentian. 
er A2ags ¥Y ORDER IL, 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cororta monopetala, Capsula bivalvis, uni- Biossom one-petalled. Capsule two-valved, 
locularis; receptaculis duobus longitudi- one-celled ; with two longitudinal recep- 
nalibus. , tacles. 
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‘SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
GENTIANA, fois remotis oppositis es Gentian, with remote opposite and ternate 
leaves, avhorled ten-cleft bellied flowers, 
with their alternate segments unequally 
bifid and torn; and minutely ciliated 
empalements. 
Gentiana (Catesle@i), oul campanulatis ventricosis extus ceruleis, foliis lanceolatis remotis. 
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Walt. Fl. Carolin.10g. 
GENTIANA (Saponaria), borollis quinquefidis campanulatis ventricosis verticillatis, foliis ovato-lanceo- 
latis trinerviis. Willd. Sp. Ft, i. 1338. 
que, corollis verticillatis 
fidis, laciniis alternis inzequaliter bifidis 
lacerisque ; calycibus minute ie 
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REFERENCE TO 2HE PLATE. 
Sh i The empalement. 
: 2. The blossom spread open. 
3. The pointal. 
Tur beautiful species of Gentiana here represented, does not appear to be noticed either in Willdenow’s 
edition of Species Plantarum, or the Hortus Kewensis of Mr. Aiton; except by the former of these 
authors,.as being synonymous with G. Saponaria ; from which as a species we conceive it distinct : 
neither do we find it enumerated in ‘Mr. Donn’s Hortus Cantabrigiensis : but it is described by Walter 
in his Flora Caroliniana, under the name of Catesbzi; and is known in several of the principal gardens 
in the neighbourhood of London by that appellation ; which we have therefore thought it more eligible 
to adopt, than run any risk of occasioning confusion by applying a new one. 
The plant is perennial and herbaceous, a native of Carolina, and is propagated by parting its roots 
in autumn, or early spring; but readies a moist sheltered situation, and peat earth in the open air, 
to make it flourish. 
It rises with several stems to the height of a foot or upwards : the leaves are opposite, or in threes, 
remote, lanceolate, stem-clasping, and obscurely three-nerved, with scabrous margins, occasioned by 
minute, upwardly-directed serrulations, which at the base of the leaf are decurrent, and form four 
_ er six roughened lines on the stem: the flowers are irregularly whorled; but the uppermost whorl is 
by much the largest ; each blossom is of a rich deep purple colour, ventricose, and opens very little 
at the mouth, where it is divided into ten incurving segments, every other of which is of a much paler 
colour than the rest, broader, unequally bifid, and minutely lacerated: the empalement is five-cleft, 
and its segments are linear-lance-shaped, with oO ciliated edges, after it manner of the edges 
of the leaves. 
The living specimen from wich our reser made, was obligingly cnpsieiieaied to us by the 
Hon, Mr. ssid of — — 
