Pycnosphera.| UXXXVII. GENTIANEEZ (BAKER AND BROWN). 565 
leaves in several distant pairs, 4-1 in. long, 4-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, 
erect. Corymb of 3 (or more ?) branches, each terminated by a head 
4—} in. in diam., composed of 3 crowded smaller heads. Bracts 2-24 
lin. long, 14 lin. broad, cuneate-oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, abruptly 
apiculate, keeled, embracing the flowers. Lateral sepals 1}-1} lin. 
long, 4 lin. broad, narrowly boat-shaped, acute, keeled ; dorsal sepal 4-3 
lin. long, }-4 lin. broad, flat, rigidly membranous, oblong or oblong- 
obovate, obtuse or obscurely 3-lobulate. Corolla blue; tube 1-14 lin. 
long; lobes 14 lin. long, about # lin. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse, suberect, 
not spreading. Stamens finally longer than the corolla-lobes, 14—1# lin. 
long ; anthers minutely apiculate. Ovary oblong; style 1 lin. long; 
stigmas # lin. long, erect. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Amboella; by the River Kuito, below the River 
Kutue, 3900 ft., Baum, 752! 
2. P. Buchanani, .V. /. Br. Plant probably 2 ft. or more 
high, glabrous. Stem terete, with 2 closely placed slightly 
-elevated lines decurrent from the base of the leaf-pairs on each 
.side, apparently simple below, branching in the flowering part only ; 
branches erect, 14—5 in. long, forming an elongate paniculate inflor- 
-escence 6-12 in. or more long and 2-3 in. broad. Lower leaves not seen ; 
stem leaves in distant pairs, 3-2 in. long, $—-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, 
erect or ascending. Flowers sessile or subsessile in small dense ovoid 
heads, 3 of which are crowded together in larger heads about } in. in 
diam. at the end of each of the short corymbosely arranged branchlets. 
Bracts 2 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, abruptly 
-apiculate, complicate and embracing the flowers. Lateral sepals 13 lin. 
long, } lin. broad, narrowly boat-shaped, acute, keeled ; dorsal sepal }-2 
lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad, Hat, membranous, oblong, very obtusely and 
unequally subbilobulate or obliquely emarginate at the apex. Corolla- 
tube 14 lin. long; lobes 1} lin. long, $ lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, spreading. Stamens finally about as long as the corolla-lobes ; 
anthers very minutely apiculate. Ovary oblong; style 14 lin. long; 
stigmas } lin. long, linear, suberect.—VFaroa Buchanani, Baker in Kew 
Bulletin, 1894, 26. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan, 1135! 
11. FAROA, Welw. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 806. 
Calyx-tube short, campanulate ; lobes 4, acute or obtuse. Corolla- 
‘tube about as long as or shorter than the calyx, with 4 small scales at 
the mouth; lobes 4, spreading. Stamens 4, inserted at the mouth of 
the corolla-tube; filaments filiform; anthers oblong, minute. Ovary 
1-celled; placentas slightly intruded; ovules numerous; style straight, 
-subulate ; stigma simple or 2-lobed. Capsule subglobose, septicidally 
2-valved. Seeds minute, subglobose, foveolate.-— Annual or rarely peren- 
nial branched herbs. Leaves sessile, broad or narrow. Flowers minute, 
arranged in dense terminal or axillary clusters. 
Species 9, endemic to Tropical and South Africa. 
