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(R. Br. 1. c. 483), C. acaulis (Choisy in Cand. Prodr. ix. 406), C. 

 Preissii, C. Huegelii, C. adscendens, C. subpinnatifidus (Vriese in 

 Lehm. Plant. Preiss. i. 346-347), 0. crispifolius (F. M. in Linnsea, 

 XXV. 423). 



GENTIANEiE. 

 Gentiana saxosa. 

 Forst. in Svensk Kongl. Vetenskap's Academien's Handinger, 1777, p. 183, t. 

 5 ; G. Forst. Prodrom. 132 ; Linne fil. Suppl. 175 ; Froelich de Gentian. 

 23 ; WiUd. Spec. Plant, i. 1273 ; G. Don, Gen. Syst. of Dichlam. Plant. 

 iv. 181 ; Eich. Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, i. 202 ; Grisebach in Cand. Prodr. ix. 

 89 ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 178 ; G. montana, G. Forst. Florul. Insulax. 

 Austr. Prodrom. 183 (1786) ; JR. Brown, Prodrom. 450 ; Eich. 1. o. i. 203; 

 Grisebach, Gen. et Spec. Gentian. 236'& 362 ; J. Hook, Flor. Kov. Zeel. 

 i. 179; Fl. Tasm. i. 271 ; G. Diemensis, Griseb. Gent. 224; G. pleurogy- 

 noides, Gr. 1. c. 236 ; G. Patagonica, Gr. 1. c. 237 ; in Cand. Prodr. ix. 99 ; 

 J. Hook. Flor. Antarctic. 328, t. 115 ; G. Grisebachii, J. Hook, in Hook. 

 Icon. Plant. 636 ; G. belUdifolia, J. Hook. 1. c. 635 ; G. concinna, J. Hook. 

 Fl. Antarctic. 53, t. 35 ; G. cerina, J. Hook. 1. c. 54, t. 36 ; Pneumonanthe 

 saxosa, Schmidt in Eoem. Archiv. i. p. 10 ; P. montana, Sohm. 1. c. 



Leaves verging into a roundish ovate lanceolate or linear-lanceo- 

 late form ; flowers 1, 2 or few terminating the stems or branches, or 

 several or many forming an umbellate or corymbose or paniculate 

 cyme, usually provided with conspicuous pedicels ; calyx quite her- 

 baceous, half or more than half as long as the corolla, wingless, cleft 

 to three-fourths or half its length into equal semilanceolate or linear- 

 semilanceolate entire lobes ; corolla whitish, nearly hell-shaped, 

 neither appemMculate nor bearded nor fringed, very deeply cleft 

 into entire ovate- or more oblong- or lanceolate-cuneate lobes, near 

 its base furnished with glandular nectar-cavities ; filaments fringeless ; 

 anthers free, soon versatile ; stigmata distinct, subsessUe ; capsule 

 nearly cylindrical or ellipsoid-cylindrical, somewhat exserted, wing- 

 less, hardly stalked ; seeds globular-ovate or spherical, smooth, wing- 

 less. 



On fern- or grass-land or peaty soil of Chatham-Island. 



This plant abounds on the higher mountains of New Zealand 

 and Tasmania, but seems to be not common in the warmer low-lands. 

 It is exceedingly abundant on meadows of the Australian Alps at an 

 elevation of 4000-6000', but rare on lower mountains or in lowland- 

 country, having only been found on Mount Macedon, at Port Fairy, 

 in the crater of Mount Gambier and in the Tattiararcountry (on 

 Tilly's Swamp). It occurs further in Auckland- and Campbell- 

 Islands and in antarctic America. It is the, only Australian species 



