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TAB. 6497.
GENTIANA SEPTEMFIDA, var. cordifolia.
Native of Asia Minor.
Nat. Ord. GENTIANES.•Tribe SWEETIES.
Genus GENTIANA, Linn.,- {Penth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 815.)
GENTIANA (Pneumonanthe) septemfida; caulibus e eolio nudo erectis v. ascendentibus
simplicibus foliosis, foliis superne sensim majoribus ovato-cordatis subacutis
5-nerviis patulis deflexisve, summis flores sessiles confertos subinvolucrantibus,
marginibus lasvibus v. scaberulis, calvéis laciniis anguste linearibus lanceolatisve
tubo •quilongis v. brevioribus sinubus latis, coroll• clavatse cyaneae lobis
brevibus ovatis subacutis, plicis fimbriato-multifidis.
G. septemfida, Pall. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 101, t. 92 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. iii.
p. 67 ; Bolss. Fl. Orient, vol. iv. p. 74.
G. fimbriaeplica, C. Koch in Linn•a, vol. xxiii. p. 584.
Var. ß. cordifolia; foliis lattoribus brevioribus obtusioribus basi evidentius cordatis,
JBoiss. I. c. p. 75.
G. cordifolia, C. Koch, I. c. p. 585.
G. gélida, Paxton Mag. Bot. p. 5, with plate.
On first seeing this beautiful plant, I did not suspect its
kinship with Gentiana septemfida, of which two forms,
equally dissimilar from one another and from this, and
both very inferior to it, are figured at Tabs. 1221) and 1410 ;
and I was further deceived by the name of G. gélida being
attached to it. On comparison with the published descrip-
tions of the gentians, I find that this is undoubtedly G. cor-
difolia of C. Koch, which is rightly reduced by Boissier to
a variety of septemfida, from which latter, in all its forms,
G. gélida differs only in its ochroleucous flowers and the
entire or two-fid plaits between the lobes of the corolla, and
may be a mere variety of this. Both these species are
described as having the leaves scabrid on the margin, a
character which I do not observe in either the living or
Herbarium specimens. The corolla-lobes in the typica
forms vary from five to seven, whence the specific name.
Gentiana septemfida has a wide range in distribution from
JUNE 1ST, 1880.