Faroa. | LXXXVII. GENTIANEZ (BAKER AND BROWN). 567 
very broadly dilated at the cordate scarious veiny base, forming an 
involucre to the flowers, widely spreading. Flower-clusters axillary 
and terminal, distant, 3-5} lin. in diam., dense, many-flowered ; pedicels. 
4-$ lin. long. Calyx-lobes 1-1} lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad, narrowly 
obovate-oblong, acute, erect, not contiguous nor spreading nor gibbous- 
keeled at the tips. Corolla-tube about ? lin. long ; lobes $—2 lin. long, 
ovate, acute. Stamens about as long as the corolla-lobes. Styleas long 
as the stamens; stigma of 2 filiform recurved lobes. Capsule 1 lin. 
long, obovate-oblong, obtuse, distinctly narrowed at the base. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Masuka Plateau, 6500— 
7000 ft., Whyte ! 
Like ¥. involucrata, Kuobl., in appearance, but totally different in its calyx. 
3. F. graveolens, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 26. Stem erect, 
6-9 in. long, with several long erect branches in the upper two-thirds. 
Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 1—2 in. long, ascending ; lower 14-3 
lin. broad; upper 3-2 lin. broad. Clusters of flowers axillary and 
terminal, distant, 5—8 lin. in diam., very dense, globose, subtended by a 
pair of broad-based linear leaves; pedicels short. Calyx 1} lin. long; 
lobes oblong, obtuse, with a gibbous-winged keel at the apex. Corolla 
lilac, twice as long as the calyx; lobes oblong. Stamens as long as or 
longer than the corolla-lobes.—/’. gyomphrenoides, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 313. 
Wile Land. Uganda, in sandy places, Wilson, 32! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uziba; Usongora, ex Wilson. 
Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3935! 4062! (4162 ex Hngler) ; Kayosa, near 
Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1479 (ex Engler). 
According to the Rev. C. T. Wilson the whole plant smells like Asafcetida, and 
a decoction of it is used in malarial ague. 
4. F. affinis, De Wild. in Etud. Fl. Katanga, 99, t. 11, fig. 14-21. 
Plant 4-8 in. high, simple or slightly branched, glabrous. Stems 
narrowly 4-winged, with 3-4 rather Jong internodes below the ip- 
florescence. Leaves }~1 in. long, }—2 lin. broad, linear lanceolate or 
the uppermost linear, narrowed at the base ; lower all in distant pairs. 
Flower-clusters 3-6 to a stem, axillary and terminal, deuse, many- 
flowered, all crowded and more or less contiguous, or the lower one 
distant. Pedicels 1-24 lin. long. Calyx ? liv. long, 4-lobed 3-] the 
way down ; lobes elliptic, apiculate (lanceolate, acute, in the figure). 
Corolla blue; tube 1 lin. long; lobes 1 lin. long, elliptic, acute 
(lanceolate, acute, in the figure). Stamens at length much longer than. 
the corolla-lobes. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Katanga; Lukafu, Verdick, 536. 
5. F. amara, Gily ined. A small glabrous annual, 1-2 in. 
high, much branched at the base. Radical leaves }$—} in. long, 
3—4 lin. broad, spathulate-obovate or -oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 
narrowed into the petiole; stem-leaves in 2-4 pairs, 24-5 lin. long, 
14-24 lin. broad, spathulate-ovate or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 
narrowed to the base, spreading, all with axillary clusters of flowers 
