544 LXXXVI. LOGANIACEH (BAKER). [ Gertnera. 
Panicle dense, 14-2 in. long; bracts minute. Calyx campanulate, 
zs in. long; teeth very short. Corolla bright red, } in. long; lobes 
shorter than the tube. Fruit unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 24! 
5. G. occidentalis, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 235. An 
‘erect shrub, about 10 yards high, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 
petioled, lanceolate, acuminate; stipules united into a sheath half as 
long as the internodes. Inflorescence terminal, very compound. 
‘Calyx campanulate, entire or faintly toothed. Corolla 4-4 in. long, 
with a ring of hairs in the tube below the insertion of the included 
“stamens. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 1-seeded. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: by the Rio Pongos, Heudelot, 888. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon, Duparquet 4 Griffon de Bellay, 232. 
OrpER LXXXVII. GENTIANEA, (By J. G. Baker, with 
additions by N. E. Brown.) 
Flowers usually regular and hermaphrodite. Calyx inferior, 4—5- 
lobed or partite ; lobes usually imbricate. Corolla gamopetalous ; tube 
-campanulate, funnel-shaped or cylindric; lobes usually 4-5, contorted, 
imbricate or induplicate-valvate. Stamens as many as the corolla- 
lobes, inserted in the corolla-tube or at its mouth ; filaments filiform or 
dilated at the base; anthers dorsifixed or basifixed, dehiscing longitu- 
dinally, rarely by 2 apical pores or short slits, sometimes spirally 
twisted. Disk 0 or annular or of 5 glands. Ovary superior, bicar- 
pellary, 1-2-celled; ovules usually many in a cell; style simple; 
stigma entire or 2-lobed. Fruit usually capsular and dehiscent, 
-Septicidally 2-valved. Seeds usually sessile, copiously albuminous, 
sometimes winged ; testa membranous or crustaceous ; embryo small. 
—Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, nearly always glabrous. 
Leaves opposite except in Menyanthee, exstipulate. Flowers in 
‘terminal cymes or clusters, or axillary and clustered or solitary. 
Inflorescence normally blue, yellow, red or white. 
Species 500-600, most abundant in the temperate regions of both hemispheres, in 
-the tropics principally found on the mountains. 
Meristostylus, described as a new genus under Gentianee by Klotzsch in Peters, 
Reise Mossamb. Bot. 267, with three species, appears to be identical with Kalanchoé 
‘in Crassulacee. 
aan I. Bxaceve.— Leaves opposite. Corolla-lobes contorted. Ovary 2- 
celled. 
Antbers exserted beyond the mouth of the corolla- 
tube. 
Stamens inserted below the corolla-sinuses 3; anthers 
coriaceous . : : 3 ‘ 32 hs Wy SAOUM- 
Stamens inserted at the corolla-sinuses ; anthers 
submembranous . “22. SHB EA, 
Anthers included in the corolla-tube or only reaching 
to its mouth . : : 5 : . . 3. BELMONTIA. 
