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Faroa. | LXXXVII. GENTIANEZ (BAKER AND BROWN). 569 
acute. Stamens longer than the corolla-lobes. Style far exserted, 2 lin. 
long, exceedingly slender, hair-like ; stigma very minutely 2-lobed. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Unyamwezi, Gonda, Boehm, 283! 
This is only to be distinguished from F. salutaris, Welw., by its smaller flowers 
-and the much more slender style. 
9. F. salutaris, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 45, t.17. A 
glabrous biennial or perennial, 2-3 in. high, much branched at the base ; 
‘stems slender. Leaves crowded in a basal tuft and each stem with 2-3 
pairs, the upper lanceolate, 2—6 lin. long, the lower oblanceolate, obtuse, 
narrowed to the base, }—? in. long. Flowers in a dense terminal cluster 
-and sometimes also 1 axillary cluster, subtended by 1—2 pairs of leaves ; 
pedicels 1—2 lin. long. Calyx 1-1} lin. long ; lobes erect, ovate, acute, sub- 
membranous, with a green mid-rib which is keeled, slightly gibbous and 
Slightly prolonged at the apex, but not cuspidate. Corolla-tube 1} lin. 
long; lobes 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute. Stamens exceeding the 
-corolla-lobes. Style nearly 2 lin. long, filiform; stigma very minutely 
2-lobed.—Eng]l. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 336; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 710; Knobl. in Bot. Centralbl. Ix. (1894), 330; Gilg in 
Kunene-Sambesi Exped. 333. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: in damp sandv pastures throughout the plateau of 
Huilla, between Nene and Humpata, 4200-5500 tt., Welwitsch, 1523! bank of the 
Xiver Chitanda, 3700 ft., Bawm, 141 (ex Gilg). 
Also in South Africa. 
The specific name refers to the usefulness of the plant as a bitter tonic in 
fevers. 
12. VOYRIA, Aubl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 806. 
Calyx-tube campanulate; lobes 4-5. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 
cylindric ; lobes 4-5, patent, contorted. Stamens 4—5, included in 
the corolla-tube ; filaments very short; anthers sometimes prolonged 
into sete at the base. Ovary ovoid, 1-celled; placentas shortly 
intruded; ovules many; style long, filiform, not exserted from the 
corolla-tube; stigma capitate. Capsule linear or oblong, membranous, 
2-valved. Seeds oblong, sometimes winged—Saprophytes, with the 
leaves reduced to membranous scales. Flowers solitary or cymose, 
yellow or blue. 
Species 30 or more, the others all Tropical American. 
Corolla 3-1 in, in diam. ; : 5 : . 1. V. primulotdes. 
Corolla 4-5 lin. in diam. : . : : . 2. V. platypetala. 
1. V. primuloides, Baker in Hew Bulletin, 1894, 25, Stem 
flexuous, 1-flowered, 2-3 in. long, with about 3 pairs of adpressed rudi- 
mentary leaves. Calyx } in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, much longer than the campanulate tube. Corolla-tube cylindric, 
swollen around the anthers, 8-11 lin. long; expanded limb ?~1 in. in 
diam.; segments 5, elliptic, subacute. Anthers inserted } of the way 
ap the corolla-tube. 
