Genlisea. | XCIV. LENTIBULARIEE (STAPF). 499 
near the tips, some of the hairs gland-tipped. Calyx subglabrous or 
glabrous ; segments subequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, the lowermost 
broader, more obtuse and with more numerous nerves. Corolla deep 
blue when dry, with a yellow palate, 34 lin. long; upper lip very 
broadly ovate, obtuse, 14 lin. long; lower lip 3-lobed, 24 lin. long ; 
palate slightly 2-gibbous, much raised, higher than the upper lip; spur 
short-cylindric from a wide conic base, truncate, sparingly glandular- 
puberulous, very slightly shorter than the lower lip. Filaments much 
and asymmetrically widened upwards from a narrow base, } lin. long ; 
anthers 2 lin. long. Ovary glabrous. Capsule globose, 1-1} lin. in 
diam., glabrous. Seeds obliquely ovoid to almost triangular in profile, 
¢ lin. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Kambole, south-west of Lake 
Tanganyika, 5000 ft., Nutt! Urungu; Fwambo, 5250 ft., Nutt ! 
Very closely allied to G. africana, from which it differs mainly in the much 
larger leaves, the glabrous or very sparingly hairy inflorescences and glabrous 
ovary. 
OrDER XCV. GESNERACEZ. (By J. G. Baker and C. B. 
Clarke.) 
Flowers bisexual, irregular. Calyx inferior (in the Old World sub- 
order C'yrtandree to which all the African species belong), small, gamo- 
Sepalous, persistent, 5-lobed. Corolla gamopetalous; tube long or 
Short ; limb 5-lobed, oblique, more or less 2-lipped, the two posticous 
lobes smaller. Stamens 2 perfect, (in Acanthonema sometimes 4), on 
the corolla (rudiments of the other 2-3 often present); anther-cells 
often ultimately confluent. Ovary completely superior, supported 
by a disc (sometimes small), ovoid or oblong, narrowed into a linear- 
cylindric style; stigma capitate or emarginate or in Trachystigma 
divided into 2 rough lobes. Ovary 1-celled (at least at its top); the 2 
parietal placentas much intruded, in most cases so as to press against 
each other in the middle and carry no ovules there; in Hpithema the 
two placentas are on stalks rising from the base of the capsule ; ovules 
very numerous on the margins of the placentas. Capsule long or short, 
loculicidal except in Hpithema. Seeds very many, small (400-600 p. 
long), ellipsoid or oblong, brown, exalbuminous ; embryo straight.— 
Hairy herbs or very small shrubs (in Africa). Leaves opposite, petioled, 
or subradical (in Linneopsis alternate), undivided, pinuate-veined, 
entire or shallowly crenate-serrate. Peduncles axillary (in caulescent 
Species) or subradical ; carrying loose cymes (rarely 1-flowered, or in 
Epithema quasi-capitate) ; bracts very small except in Lpithema. 
Species 550 in the Old World, 350 in the New. The scarcity of the species in 
Africa as compared with the abundance in South-east Asia and Tropical America is 
one of the characteristics of the African Flora. The endemic genus Streptocarpus is 
the only important one in Africa. 
This order is easily distinguished from the other irregular gamopetalous orders, 
