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has been reduced by Asa Gray and subsquently also by Wilhelm Hillebrand, as a 
variety with glabrous corolla-lobes, to C. Tameiameix, so that without clashing of 
specific appellations it can pass under the latter specific name into Styphelia. 
This taxonoically and phyto-geographically remarkable plant is specifically named 
in honour of Professor Baldwin Spencer, B.Sc., of the Melbourne-University, who 
with enthusiastic zeal now carries on the onerous duties here as local Secretary 
of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, and who as one of the 
Hon. Secretaries of the Royal Society of Victoria promoted the publication of this 
essay. 
Gentiana Ettingshausent. 
Dwarf; stems very thin, leafy, laxe, near the base somewhat creeping, beset 
with very minute hairlets ; leaves very small, simply opposite, rigidulous, from 
ovate-to narrow-lanceolar, mucronulate-pointed, equally green and shining on both 
sides, thickly pale-margined and also along the keel transparently pale-edged, subtle- 
ciliolate towards the base otherwise glabrous, without any externally visible venules, 
the lowest leaves the smallest ; flowers singly terminal on a very short stalk; calyx 
to near the middle four-or five-cleft, its lobes linear-semilanceolar, gradually much 
pointed, conspicuously margined and earinulated ; corolla glabrous, by about one 
third longer than the calyx; its tube cylindric, downward narrowed ; its lobes four 
or five, semilanceolar-deltoid and finely acuminated, fringeless, about three times 
shorter than the tube; semilanceolar membranous appendages between the lobes ; 
stamens emanating from near the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers dorsifixed, 
disconnected, narrow-ellipsoid ; free part of filaments hardly longer than the anthers ; 
style very short; stigmas soon recurved; ovulary on a short stipes, narrow-ellipsoid ; 
ovules very numerous along the hardly perceptible placentaries ; ovules dark, almost 
ellipsoid, slightly pointed at their extremities. 
Crest of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
Aspect, so far as the foliage is concerned, almost that of some small caryophyllous 
plant. Leaves from often only one-sixth of an inch length on the lower portion of 
the stem enlarging on the upper to nearly halfaninch. Calyx also about half an inch 
long. Colour of the dried corolla no longer well discernible, but seemingly yellowish 
towards the middle and bluish towards the summit; narrow membranous folds 
decurrent from between the lobes; stamens enclosed. Ripe fruit not available. 
After an extensive search I have been unable to identify this remarkably delicate 
Gentian with any of the numerous Himalayan or other species. It belongs however 
to the series of specific forms, in which G, quadrifaria is prominent; but that plant is 
distinguished by broader leaves, those near the root enlarged, by usually smaller 
flowers, by less pointed and less carinulate calyx-lobes, by the corolla-lobes being 
less acuminated, by seemingly shorter stamens and perhaps also by carpologic 
