552 LXXXVII. GENTIANEH (BAKER AND BROWN). | Belmontia. 
2. B. oligantha, Gily in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 102. Stem filiform, 
erect, j-1} in. long. Leaves few, sessile, lanceolate, acute, 3-1} lin. 
long. Flowers 1-3; pedicels $ in. long. Sepals 5, lanceolate, very 
acute, 4-4 in. long, slightly keeled. Corolla ¢ in. long; tube sub- 
cylindrical ; lobes 1-1} lin. long, oblong, obtuse. Stamens inserted in 
the upper half of the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong, tipped with a large 
gland. Style short ; stigma cylindrical. 
Lower Guinea. (iaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaue. 
3. B. debilis, Schinz in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, xxxvii 
(1891) 332. Plant very small, 3—2 in. high, simple or branched, 
apparently perennial, glabrous. Leaves in few pairs, lanceolate, 
ascending, 4 in. long. Pedicels 14-4 lin. long, erect. Sepals 5, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, % in. long, narrowly-winged on the green 
keel. Corolla-tube 23-2? lin. long, narrowly funnel-shaped in the 
upper half; lobes 5, obovate, 14 lin. long. Stamens inserted at the 
middle of the corolla-tube.—Lxochenium debile, Weiw. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc, xxvii. 48. Parasia debilis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 708. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; muddy places at Lake Quibinda 
on the right bank of the River Cuije, Welwitsch, 1511! 
4. B. zambesiaca, Boker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 25. Plant 34 
in. high in the only specimen seen. Stem slender, erect, simple, 4- 
angled. Leaves in 3 pairs, lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, ascending, 
at most jin. long. Flowers solitary ; pedicel 10 lin. long. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, } in. long, with a narrow wing to the green keel. Corolla- 
tube 5 lin. long, narrowly funnel-shaped in the upper half; lobes 
obovate-cuneate, } in. long. Stamens inserted at about the middle of 
the corolla-tube. 
Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: Leshumo Valley, south of the Zambesi, Holub ! 
5. B. pumila, Buker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 25. Stems slender, 
erect, 14-2 in. long, 1—4-flowered, 4d-angled. Leaves in 3-5 pairs, 
ovate or oblong, subacute, 4-1 in. long, spreading or the lowest 
deflexed. Pedicels very short, erect. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 4 in. 
long, pallid, with a narrowly-winged green keel. Corolla-tube half as 
long again as the calyx, narrowly funnel-shaped in the upper half; 
lobes obovate, 1 lin. long. Stamens inserted below the middle of the 
corolla-tube. Capsule ;',—1 in. in diam. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory: Nupe; in a swamp at Lom, Barter, 
1680! 
6. B. platyptera, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 25. Stem 
very slender, 14-2 in. long, 4-winged, simple or branched, 1-5- 
flowered. Leaves in few pairs, ovate, acute, spreading, cuneate at 
the base, }-} in. long. Pedicels 4-4 in. long, recurving. Sepals 5, 
ovate, { in. long; keel green, conspicuously winged. Corolla-tube 
cylindrical, about 34 lin. long lobes 5, obovate, 1-1} lin. long. 
