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rHE ALPINE AND SUB^ALPINE VEGETATION 
636. Gentiaiia Praiiiii Burkill 
Changu, 12— -13,000 ft., Nos. 3508, 3518, 4190, 4332, Common. 
CoroHa outside dark blue, inside white, marked below the middle with a varying 
number of blue and of yellow spots, usually about ten of each j corolla lobes curiously 
bifid, usually very irregularly so into i o portions, the smaller segment usually very acute, 
larger subacute, filaments blue broadened downwards. 
637. Gentiana pluviarum W. W. Smith (Journ. Asiat. Soc., Beng., 
new series, vii, 77, with fig.) 
Changu, Chamnago, Fieunggong, 12 — 13,000 ft.. Nos. 352.7, 
3662, 3907. 
638. Geatiana bryoides Burkill 
Changu, Chamnago, Gnatong 11—13,000 ft.. Nos. 3082, 3115, 
3818, 4318. Common. 
639. Gentiana sikkimensis C. B. Clarke 
Above Phadonchen, 12,000 ft.. No. 4423. 
640. Gentiana Elwesii C. B. Clarke 
Common, 12—14,000 ft.. Nos. 4266, 4295, 4316. 
641. Gentiana amoena Wall. 
Ningbil, 13,000 ft. 
543. Gentiana pliyllocalyx C. B. Clarke 
Very common, 13—14,500 ft., Nos. 3569, 3948. 
543. Gentiana tubittora Wall. 
Chola, 14,000 ft., No. 4451 Bihu ! 
544. Gentiana ornata Wall. 
Laghep, Gnatong, 11—13,000 ft.. Nos. 4403 Bihu! 4353. 
VAR. meiantha 
Fieunggong, 12,000 ft., No. 3906. 
545. Gentiana stylopbora C. B. Clarke 
Changu, Chola, 11 — 14,000 ft., Nos. 3132, 3592, Common. 
I add the following notes from my field book as the book description was based on 
imperfect material. Flowering stem 80 — 180 cm. high, glossy green, glabrous. Upper 
leaves strongly 7 — 9, nerved, sessile sometimes connate for 5 cm. at the base, large specimens 
18 ^m. by 9 cm. Calyx tube 1-2 cm., green shining, glabrous; lobes nearly 2-5 cm., triangular. 
Corolla up to 7 5 cm. long, and 7’5 cm. broad, widely funnel-shaped, 5-cleft to nearly the 
base ; lobes 6 cm. by 4 cm., ovate-elliptic, apex rounded, greenish yellow outside, inside 
similar with many irregular pustular outgrowths, not fimbriate in the throat, indistinctly 
7-9 veined moderately fleshy. Stamens up to 2’6 cm. long, attached a little below junction 
of tube and lobes ; bases very stout, 4 mm. broad, giving firmness to corolla tube ; filaments 
whitish tapering from 4 to 2 mm. broad, apex of filament broadened and pendent anther 
applied throughout to it; anther 1 — 1-1 cm. long, oblong, tapering from 4 to 2*5 mm.; ovary 
2 cm., stigma 4 mm. long, deeply cleft, lobes nearly orbicular, 4 mm. broad, flattened out at 
