548 LXXXVII. GENTIANEE (BAKER AND BROWN). [ Sebew.. 
tube. Stamens half as long as the corolla-lobes; filaments longer than: 
the enthers, which are tipped with a gland. Style 3 lin. long, slender, 
with a tubercular thickening ; stigma minute, subcapitate, bilobed. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: in shady meadows on the borders of the- 
forest, Kinyika Mountains, Kinga (Livingstone) Range, 8500 ft., Goetze, 945! 
3. S. leiostyla, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 97. An erect annual 
1-2 ft. high, branching from about the middle; branches erect. Leaves 
distant, cordate-orbicular, minutely apiculate. Flowers 5-merous, in 
dense terminal cymes. Sepals 23-3 lin. long, }—1 lin. broad, oblong 
and mucronate, or narrowly oblong-lanceolate and acuminate, narrowly 
wing-keeled. Corolla-tube 2-24 lin. long; lobes 2$—2? lin. long, 
obovate-oblong, obtuse. Staminal-filaments 4-1 lin. long; anthers. 
linear, tipped with a gland. Style 24-3 lin. long, with or without a 
tubercular thickening near its base; stigma oblong, laterally com- 
pressed. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; North Nyasa, Whyte! 
Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 208! near Blantyre, Last ! and without precise locality,. 
Buchanan, 200! 270. 
The styles are either smooth or with tubercles in different flowers from the same 
cyme. 
4. S. schimperiana, Buching. ex Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 127. 
Annual, erect, 3-12 in. high, glabrous; stem simple or branching at. 
the base, narrowly 4-winged; internodes 4-{ in. long. Leaves 13-3 
lin. long, 2-34 lin. broad, sessile, reniform or cordate-orbicular, obtuse, 
apiculate. Cyme terminal, moderately compact, its main branches }—{ 
in. long, several-flowered. Flowers 5-merous; pedicels 0-1 lin. long; 
sepals 2-24 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong, acute, very thin and 
membranous; keel narrowly winged ; corolla-tube about 2 lin. long ;. 
lobes 14 lin. long, ?—? lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, apparently slightly 
concave ; stamens exserted ; filaments }-} lin. long; anthers } lin. long,. 
oblong, tipped with a minute gland at the apex, becoming recurved ; 
style 2-1 lin. long, with a tubercular thickening below the middle ; 
stigma capitate, hemispherical, truncate at the base, slightly bilobed, 
much shorter than broad.—¥S. crassulifolia, var. breviflora, Schweint.. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 127. S. brachyphylla, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr. 335, partly ; Schinz in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, xxxvil- 
326, partly; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 100, partly, not of Grise- 
bach. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen; Mount Bachit, 11,000 ft., Schimper, 151 
(ex Schweinfurth) ; Begemeder ; Mount Guna, 10,800 ft., Schimper, 1459! 
This plant differs from S. multinodis, N. E. Br., and S. brachyphylla, Griseb.,. 
with which it has hitherto been confused, in its more membranous and broader 
sepals, recurved anthers, more slender style and truncate-based stigma. 
5. S. multinodis, V. Z. Br. An erect glabrous annual 4-2 ft. 
high, usually branching at or near the base; stems with numerous- 
