378 LXXXVII, GENTIANEM (BAKER AND BROWN). | Swertia, 
leaves in 3-4 distant pairs, sessile, 3-4 lin. long, 14-3 lin. broad, 
obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base. Flowers 3-4, umbellate at 
the ends of the stem and branches, 5-merous ; pedicels unequal, 4-3 
in. long. Sepals 2-2} lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad, linear-oblong, acute. 
Corolla-lobes 4-5 lin, long, 2-2} lin, broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, with 
2 long-fringed nectaries near the base. Stamens 24-3 lin. long. 
Ovary oblong-fusiform; stigma sessile, its lobes orbicular-ovate, 
obtuse, 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Ambelaco, Schweinfurth, 462! 
19, S. subalpina, V. 7. Br. Annual? 3-6 in. high, usually 
branching at the base; stems usually 1—3-flowered, in large specimens 
with a terminal umbel-like cyme of 3-5 flowers and 2-4 from the node 
below. Basai leaves crowded or rosulate, elliptic or orbicular, shortly 
petiolate, 1} in. long, 14-5 lin. broad; stem-leaves 1-2 pairs, 13-4 
lin. long, 3-1} lin. broad, ovate, obtuse or subacute, all rather thick 
and coriaceous, Flowers 5-merous; pedicels 4-13 in. long, not very 
slender, rather stiffly erect or ascending. Sepals 12-33 lin. long, $-1? 
lin. broad, narrowly oblong to elliptic-ovate, obtuse. Corolla light 
yellow (Mann) ; lobes 34-5 lin. long, 12-2 lin. broad, elliptic, obtusely 
rounded at the apex, with 2 oblong, scantily fringed nectaries near the 
base. Stamens 2-21 lin. long. Ovary narrowly oblong, scarcely 
narrowed at the top; stigma sessile, with transversely oblong lobes 
4 lin. long, $ lin. broad. Capsule 31-5 lin. long, narrowly oblong- 
lanceolate, equalling or exceeding the corolla. 
= dee Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 8000-10,000 ft., Jann, 
16! 
20. S. abyssinica, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 28. Annual; stems 
weak, slender, 6—9 in. long, 4-angled, simple or branched. Leaves in 
3—5 distant pairs, ovate, cordate-amplexicaul, obtuse or acute, }—1 in. 
long. Cymes simple or panicled, few-flowered ; pedicels 4-14 in. long. 
Flowers whitish, pentamerous. Calyx-lobes 13-3 lin. long, oblong-obovate 
or linear-oblong, obtuse. Corolla 4-4 in. long; lobes oblong, with a 
pair of short oblong nectaries near the base, fringed with long hairs. 
Stamens # the length of the corolla. Stigma sessile, 2-lobed.—Griseb. 
in DC. Prod. ix. 134; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 54; Engl. Hochge- 
birgsfl. Trop. Afr. 337. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 22! Shireh Province, 
Petit, 177! and without precise locality, Schimper, 677! Parkyns / 
21. S. clarenceana, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 16, vii. 
207. Annual, much branched; stems erect, 1-1} ft. long, narrowly 
4-winged ; wings scabrid-denticulate. Stem-leaves many, sessile, 
broadly ovate, obtuse or acute, broadly rounded or subcordate at 
the base, 4-1 in. long, 3-8 lin. broad. Cymes copiously panicled ; 
pedicels {~1} in. long. Flowers pentamerous. Calyx-lobes 2-24 lin. 
long, }—3 lin. broad, oblong, acute or subobtuse, Corolla-lobes 33-5 
lin. long, 14-3 lin. broad, obovate-oblong, with a pair of oblong fringed 
