Sebeea. | LXXXVII. GENTIANEA: (BAKER AND BROWN). Sol 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; parasitical on grasses and Cyperacea, in 
swampy places along the River Monino, Welwitsch, 1521, and along the River 
Humpata, Welwitsch, 1522! 
Very near the Himalayan S, khasiana, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soe. xiv. 
428. 
3. BELMONTIA, E. Meyer; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. 804. 
Calyx cleft nearly or quite to the base; segments 4—5, ovate or 
lanceolate, more or less winged on the keel. Corolla-tube longer 
than the calyx, funnel-shaped or cylindric ; segments 4—5, spreading. 
Stamens 4—5, included in the corolla-tube ; filaments short; anthers 
oblong or linear, with a gland at the tip and often also two at the 
base. Ovary globose, 2-celled ; placentas axile ; ovules many in a cell; 
style subulate; stigma oblong. Capsule globose, membranous, 
septicidally 2-valved. Seeds many, minute.— Annual or rarely 
perennial erect herbs. Leaves opposite, sessile. Flowers solitary or in 
terminal dichotomous cymes. 
Species about 20, of which 2 are natives of Madagascar, the others in South 
Africa. 
A slightly-earlier name for the genus is Parasia, Rafin. Fl. Tellur. iii. 78 (1836). 
Corolla-lobes ;4-% in. long. 
Keel of sepals narrowly winged. 
Leaves linear . : : : : 1. B. gracilis. 
Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. 
Leaves 3-1} lin. long 2. B. oligantha. 
Leaves 13-3 lin. long 3. B. debilis. 
Leaves 3 in. long. 4. B. zambesiaca. 
Leaves ovate : : 5. B. pumila. 
Keel of sepals broadly winged 6. B. platyptera. 
Corolla-lobes +—3 in. long. 
Corolla-tube funnel-shaped in the upper half. 
Plant 1-3 in. high . : : : : . 7. B. primulaflora. 
Plant 3-15 in. high . : : 8. B. grandis. 
Corolla-tube cylindrical, very slinder. 
Calyx 3-2 in. long . : 2 ; : . 9. B. mechowiana. 
Calyx 3-2 in. long . : : : . 210.8. Teuszit. 
1. B. gracilis, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 47. Stems very 
slender, erect, 4-6 in. long, simple or once forked, 4-angled. Leaves 
in 2—4 pairs, linear, ascending, 4-} in. long. Flowers solitary, erect or 
nodding ;_ pedicels 3-3 in. long. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acuminate, }—} 
in. long, pallid, with a narrowly-winged green keel. Corolla-tube not 
longer than the calyx, narrowly funnel-shaped in the upper half; lobes 
5, oblong, ;'; in. long. Stamens inserted at the middle of the tube.— 
Schinz in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, xxvii. (1891) 333; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 336. Parasia gracilis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 708. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; subparasitic, in spongy places in wood: d 
parts of the northern region of the River Monino, Welwitsch, 1524! 
