554. LXXXVII. GENTIANEZ (BAKER AND BROWN). [ Belmontia. 
10. B. Teuszii, Schinz in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich,. 
XXXvii. (1891) 335. Stems slender, erect, 9-16 in. long, simple or 
forked, 4-angled. Leaves in 4—6 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, ascending,. 
3-2 in. long. Flowers 1-4 to a stem. Pedicels 14-4 in. long, naked, 
erect. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acuminate, }—3 in. long; keel green, very 
prominent, acute, scarcely winged. Corolla-tube slender, cylindric, 
1-1} in. long; lobes 5, spreading, lanceolate, acute, 10-13 lin. long,. 
43-6 lin. broad. Stamens inserted at about the middle of the corolla- 
tube.—Eng]. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 336. Tachiadenus continentalis,. 
Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 70. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: damp meadows at Malange, Teusz, 387! 
South Central. Congo Free State: basin of the River Lualaba below Nzibi, 
riart, 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu, Fwambo, Carson, 33! 
4. CHIRONTA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 805. 
Calyx 5-cleft to 4 or nearly to the base; lobes lanceolate. 
Corolla-tube short ; lobes 5, spreading, contorted. Stamens 5, 
inserted at the throat of the corolla, much exserted; filaments short; 
anthers linear-oblong, straight or spirally twisted. Ovary ovoid or 
globose, 1-celled ; placentas little intruded, bifid; ovules numerous ; 
style subulate, curved ; stigma entire or shortly 2-lobed. Fruit usually 
capsular, rarely baccate, septicidally 2-valved, rarely subacute. Seeds 
many, globose, foveolate——Much-branched glabrous herbs. Leaves. 
sessile, broad or narrow. Inflorescence cymose or cymose-paniculate. 
Species about 30, the others in South Africa and Madagascar. 
Cyme densely many-flowered; flowers erect, fasti- 
giate 2 : : ; : 
Cyme or panicle lax ; flowers not fastigiate. 
Cyme-branches erect or ascending, 
Anthers much twisted, 1-2 lin. long. 
le Ce Ker ebsit 
Stem-leaves oblong or lanceolate. : . 2. C. erythreodes. 
Stem-leaves linear : c : : - 3. C. humilis. 
Anthers straight or slightly twisted, 2-34 lin, 
long . . . 4. C. transvaalensis. 
Cyme-branches widely spreading. 
Leaves linear or lanceolate, 2-3 in. long - 5. C. angolensis. 
Leaves broadly ovate, 4-1 in. long . : - 6. C. laxifiora. 
Or 
1. C. Krebsii, Griseb. Gen, et Sp. Gent. 98. Stem 2-3 ft. long, 
terete, scape-like, stiffly erect, bearing only 2—3 pairs of reduced leaves. 
Basal leaves densely tufted, spathulate- or linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, 
subcoriaceous, glabrous, 4—9 in: long, $ in. broad above the middle, 
tapering gradually to a long narrow base. Cyme elongate, densely 
many-flowered ; branches erect, close together, with fastigiate flowers. 
Calyx } in. long; segments 5, lanceolate, acute. Corolla bright pink ; 
tube rather longer than the calyx; lobes lanceolate, acute, as long as 
