d82 LXXXVII. GENTIANEH (BAKER AND BROWN). [ Swertia. 
corymbose or rounded panicle of several-flowered cymes. Leaves in 
many distant pairs, erect or ascending, $—2 in. long, 1-24 lin. broad, 
linear, acute, sessile, scarcely or not at all narrowed at the base. 
Flowers 5-merous; pedicels }—3 in. long. Sepals 2-3 lin. long, 3-4 
lin. broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla-lobes 3h-44 
lin. long, 13-2} lin, broad, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic with acute 
complicate slightly spreading tips and 2 oblong fringed nectaries near 
the base. Stamens 24 lin. long. Ovary oblong, scarcely narrowed at 
the top ; stigma sessile; lobes usually longer than broad, obtuse. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Mount Zomba, Sharpe, 
157! Namasi, Cameron, 13! south of Lake Shirwa, Meller! foot of Mount Sochi, 
Kirk! Manganja Highlands, 3000 ft., in damp places, Kirk! Shire Highlands, 
abundant in marshes, Buchanan, 461! 
A specimen collected in swamps on hills between Unangu and Lake Shire in 
Portuguese East Africa by Archdeacon Johnson (10), appears to belong to this 
species, but the corolla-lobes are rather less acute. 
31. S. pleurogynoides, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 158. A 
glabrous annual. Stems slender, erect, 1 ft. or more long, branched 
upwards; branches very erect, parallel with the stem. Leaves in 
distant pairs, sessile, linear, 3-14 in. long, 4-1 lin. broad. Cymes 
many, few-flowered, terminal and axillary, forming a long very narrow 
panicle. Flowers 5-merous; pedicels 1-8 lin. long. Sepals linear, 
acate, 23-6 lin. long, } lin. broad. Corolla-lobes 34~4 lin. long, iP 
lin. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, furnished with a pair of 
nectaries at the base, yellow in the dried state. Stamens 13-1} lin. 
long. Anthers small, oblong or subquadrate. Ovary compressed, 
elliptic; stigma sessile and decurrent to nearly half-way down the 
ovary, obtuse. Capsule 34-41 lin. long, 2 lin, broad, compressed, 
elliptic; valves obtuse. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; between Kondowe and 
Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Shire Highlands, Buchanan ! 
32. S. tetrandra, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 28. A very small 
annual, 13-3 in. high; stem slender, branching upwards. Leaves 
very small, 23-3} lin. long; lower about 1 lin. broad, sub- 
spathulate or ovate, obtuse, abruptly narrowed into a short petiole ; 
upper 4-2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute. Flowers in umbellate 
clusters of 3-5 at the ends of the stem and branches, tetramerous. 
Calyx-segments 14-21 lin. long, }-2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, very 
acute, unequal, as long as or longer than the corolla. Corolla. white ; 
lobes 1$-1} lin. long, 4 lin. broad, oblong, unequally 2—5-toothed at 
the apex, with a pair of minute ciliate nectaries at the base. Stamens 
1 lin. long. Ovary ellipsoid-oblong; stigma sessile; lobes obtuse. 
Valves of the capsule obtuse—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 57; 
Griseb, in DC. Prod. ix. 563. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, near Adowa, Schimper! Shireh Province, Quartin 
Dillon (ex Richard), and without precise locality, Schimper (ex Hochstetter). 
