122 XCTII. GENTiANACBa;. (0- B. Clarke.) [Swertia. 



usually interrupted in the middle, hence from behind the corolla-lobe appears bi- 

 glandulose near the base ; the foreola or pit is below this, in the corolla-tube, and is 

 a watch-pocket slit, never more than one to each corolla-segment. 0. ciliata is 

 founded on some scraps of Eoyle's with most minutely ciliate petioles, nowise differ- 

 ing from the type. There is a form (? dimorphic) in which the stamens are not half 

 so long as the corolla-lobes, the anthers linear. 



2. S. paniculata, Wall. Cat. 4374, and PI. As. Rar. iii. 3, t. 305; 

 leaves oblong or lanceolate 3-1-nerved, filaments linear separately attached to 

 the corolla-tube, style long stigmas linear. Ophelia paniculata, D. Don in 

 Trans. lAnn. Soc. xyii. 525 ; Griseh. Gentian. 314, and in DC. Prodi: ix. 124; 

 Sot. Mag. 6687, fig. 5, 6. 0. Wallichii, G. Dm Gen. Syst. iv. 178. 



Temperate W. Himalaya, alt. 5-8000 ft.; from Kashmir to Nepal, Wallioh, 

 .&e. 



Close resemblance to iS. purpurascens, when dried. Sepals J in., oblong, acute, 

 ■sub-1-nerved. Corolla-lobes J in., ovate, acute, white in the upper half, patent not 

 leflexed in flower ; pit very near the base of the corolla, 1 to each lobe, naked ; near 

 the base of the corolla-lobe are 2 purple or lurid-green snbglandular marks, some- 

 times confluent into one. Filaments hardly dilated downwards, not puberulous ; 

 .anthers oblong, not hastate. Capsule | in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Seeds as 

 of S. pnrpurascens hnt rather smaller. — Thevar. brachypetala, Griseb. Gentian., 314, 

 was founded on Wallich's type of 8. paniculata ; but Grisebach subsequently marked 

 examples of S. dilatata (n. 4 below) as var. brachypetala. 



3. S. G-riffithii, Clarke; leaves narrowly lanceolate 3-1-nerved, panicles 

 dense, calyx-lobes lanceolate rigid 3-nerved connate below, filaments linear 

 iree, style long stigmas linear. Gentianea n. 1006, Grif. Itin. Notes, 189. 



Bhotan ; Lamnos, alt. 9000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5883). 



Possibly an eastern var. of <S. paniculata. Examples are 4-7 in., very rigid, 

 branched, dense with leaves and fruit. Leaves 1 by ^ in. Pedicels mostly ^-i in. 

 Capsules rather smaller than in 8. paniculata, 



4. S. dilatata, Clarke ; leaves lanceolate 3-1-nerved, filaments much 

 dilated for more than half their length puberulous not connate into a tube at 

 the base, style cylindric stigmas sublinear. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 4-12,000 ft., common; J. D. H., &o. Nepal; WaX- 

 lich. 



Resembling 8. paniculata, but with larger flowers and capsules ; and the stamens 

 more like those of 8. pnrptirascens. Leaves glabrous, base minutely ciliate. Sepals 

 ^i in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, much broader than in 8. paniculata. Corolla 

 usually shorter than the sepals ; lobes greenish yellow, a transverse purple continuous 

 band near the base ; a pit horse-shoe-shaped on the corolla-tube, one for each lobe. 

 Filaments usually more dilated than in 8. pwrpwrascens, sometimes nearly to the 

 ■summit, while at the base they are contracted, separate. Capsule J-i in. 



VAS.pilosa ; leaves pilose on both surfaces with ciliate margins and nerves, pedi- 

 cels and sepals ciliate. Nepal ; X Scully. 



5. S. tetrag-ona, Clarke; leaves lanceolate 3-1-nerved, ..filaments linear 

 free, style stigmas of 2 closely approximated hemispheric plates. Ophelia 

 tetragona, Edgew. in. Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 86. 



Tempeeate Himalaya, alt. 5-8000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Simla, abundant ; Edge- 

 worth, Thomson, &c. 



Eesembling in general appearance 8. paniculata. Sepals ^ in., narrowly lanceo- 

 late. Corolla-lobes more than i in., whitish ; near the base on either side of each 

 lobe is an oblong vertical hairy gland ; no pit at the base of the corolla-tube but a 

 shining obscure concavity, of which (as in other species) the two oblong glands are 

 the more prominent upper margins. Anthers oblong, hastate to the middle. Capsule 



