Sebea. | LXXXVII, GENTIANEZ (BAKER AND BROWN). 549 
internodes }-1} in. long, narrowly 4-winged. Leaves sessile, i-} 
in. long and broad, orbicular-cordate, obtuse or minutely apiculate. 
Inflorescence of each main stem elongate ; branches not all reaching to 
the same level; cymes dense, compact, subcapitate, many-flowered, 
their main branches }-2 in. long; pedicels }-1} lin. long. Flowers 5- 
merous. Sepals green, 2-24 lin. long, 4-3 lin. broad, lanceolate or 
oblong, acute ; keel narrowly winged; corolla yellow ; tube 13-2 lin. 
long; lobes 14-1} lin. long, 3—{ lin. broad, elliptic-oblong or spathu- 
late-obevate, obtuse, minutely apiculate, erect at the basal part, 
spreading above the middle; stamens exserted ; filaments 4-4 lin. long ; 
anthers 4 lin. long, straight, oblong, tipped with a minute gland. 
‘Style 3-1 lin. long, with or without a slight tubercular thickening ; 
stigma compressed-ovoid, narrowed into the style, twice as long as 
broad.—/. brachyphylla, Hook. fil. in Journ, Linn. Soc. vi. 16, and vil. 
206; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 335, partly; Schinz in Viertel]. 
Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, xxxvii. 326, partly; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxvi. 100, partly ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 705, not of Grise- 
bach. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-8500 ft., Mann, 
1239! 1983! Johnston, 8! Preuss, 633A, 633B (ex Gilg)! Fernando Po: Clarence 
Peak, 8500-10,000 ft., Mann, 320! 598! 
Wile Land. Uganda: Ruwenzori, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7685 ! British 
East Africa; Mbaruk Stream, above 6000 ft., Lake Elmeteita, Scott-Elliot, 6758 ! 
Ukamba, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Hiliot, 6444! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, 4500-5500 ft., Welwitsch, 
1520! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 8800 ft., 
Volkens, 1114! 861 (ex Gilg), Schneequelle, 12,900 ft., Meyer, 102 (ex Gilg). 
This conspicuously differs from S. brachyphylla, Griseb., in having more 
numerous and much shorter internodes, much denser cymes, with very much shorter 
branches and more numerous flowers. 
6. S. affinis, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 706. An 
erect annual 8-12 in. high; stems slender, narrowly 4-winged. 
Radical leaves rosulate, broadly elliptic, obtuse; stem leaves sessile, 
ovate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, somewhat narrowed at the base. 
Panicle laxly corymbose; pedicels short, unequal. Flowers 5-merous. 
Sepals }-} in. long, acutely keeled, obtusely acuminate, with broad 
white membranous edges. Corolla }-3 in. long; tube rather inflated ; 
lobes ovate-acuminate. Stamens exserted; filaments very short; 
anthers obtusely sagittate at the base, tipped with a gland. Style 
short ; stigma longer than the style, subprismatic-clavate. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes ; by the River Bero, near Cavalheiros, 
only one specimen seen, Welwitsch, 1519. 
7. S. barbeyiana, Schinz in Viertelj. Naturf. Gesell. Ziirich, 
xxxvii. 326. An erect annual 3-7 in. high, glabrous in all its parts ; 
