Schultesia. | LXXXVII. GENTIANEZ (BAKER AND BROWN). 5d9 
8. SCHULTESIA, Mart.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 811. 
Calyx tubular, 4-winged, 4-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped; seg- 
ments 4, broad, contorted. Stamens 4, inserted in the corolla-tube ; 
filaments filiform, sometimes winged towards the base ; anthers oblong, 
not twisted. Ovary 1-celled; placentas little or much intruded ; ovules 
many ; style filiform ; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule 2-valved. Seeds small, 
foveolate-—Erect simple or branched annuals. Leaves sessile, 
Flowers in terminal cymes. 
Species 15, natives of Tropical America. 
1. S. stenophylla, var. latifolia, Mart. ex Progel in Mart. FI. 
Bras. vi. i. 207, An erect annual 3-18 in. high, 3—-18-flowered. Stems 
‘simple or branched above, 4-angled in the upper part. Leaves in 4-6 
pairs, sessile, ovate-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, ascending, mem- 
branous, 3-1} in. long. Flowers cymose, on short erect pedicels. 
Calyx 6-7 lin. long, scarious, strongly winged and veined; segments 
narrowly lanceolate-subulate. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; seg- 
ments obovate, } in. long and about as broad.—/W. senegalensis, Baker 
‘in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 26. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 551! Gambia: by the River 
‘Gambia, Brown-Lester, 39 ! 
Probably introduced from Brazil. 
9. NEUROTHECA, Salisb. ex Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pion. Gee, 
Calyx tubular, 8—12-ribbed ; lobes 4. Corolla-tube narrowly funnel- 
shaped or cylindric; lobes 4, ovate, contorted. Stamens 4, inserted 
below the middle of the corolla-tube and reaching to its mouth or 
-exserted, slightly unequal; filamenis filiform; anthers shortly oblong, 
erect, not twisted. Ovary oblong, 1-celled; placentas very slightly 
intruded; ovules many; style filiform; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule 
membranous, 2-valved. Seeds minute, reticulated.—Dwarf herbs. 
Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary (very rarely 2) in each axil, forming 
long or short ratemes or crowded in terminal corymb-like clusters. 
Species 7, 1 also in Brazil and Guiana. 
Calyx-tube unequally 12-ribbed, equalling or shorter 
than the teeth. : z : 3 ‘ - 1. N. longidens. 
Calyx-tube equally and prominently 8-ribbed, longer 
than the teeth. 
Inflorescence occupying the greater part of the 
stems. 
Lower leaves }—1 in. long ; corolla 3-4 lin. long. 
Lower leaves up to 2} in. long; corolla 5 lin, 
long : : : : : : : 
Inflorescence occupying only the terminal part of 
the stems. 
Flowering stems often crowned with a tuft of 
leaves. : : - : . 4. WN. rupicola. 
nh 
. 
N. leselioides. 
3. N. robusta. 
