Ezacum.| XCVII. GENTIANACER. (C. B. Clarke.) 99 
5-nerved, in small specimens lanceolate and subsessile ; petiole 4 in. Cymes terminal, 
erect; pedicels mostly 4-3 in.; the 1-flowered peduncle at the bifurcation of the 
cyme often 1-2} in. Calyax-lohes 4 in.; wing in fruit ovate or cordate, nerved. 
Corolla-lobes } in. or more (or in small examples & in). Anthers à in., finally de- 
hiscing nearly to the base. Capsule 1 in., subglobose.—Roxburgh's Ic. Ined. of his 
E. carinatum resembles in all respects E. pedunculatum, Linn., except that the corolla- 
lobes are orange-yellow. As a yellow corolla is unknown in Eracum, Sprengel placed 
the species under Szbea. Arnott and Grisebach, assuming that Roxburgh had not 
seen the plant alive, reduce it to E. pedunculatum. But as Roxburgh had the plant 
In cultivation and both figured and described E. pedunculatum (under E. sulcatum), it 
1s not likely that his E. carinatum is the same thing. Roxburgh’s description seems 
almost certainly to refer to E. petiolare, Griseb., which has white corolla-lobes with 
yellow anthers and the marked calyx-wing, &c., described by Roxburgh. It doubtless 
extends to Ceylon, for Thwaites’ E. petiolare (Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 427) 
were almost surely rightly named, though the number (C.P. 1876) attached to the 
Specimens is wrong. 
**** Small plant with small 5-merous flowers. 
16. E. pteranthum, Wall. Cat. 4360; leaves elliptic acuminate 3- 
nerved often petioled, calyx-lobes winged. Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. A7. 
Prov and Tenassertm, Wallich, Lobb, alt. 3-4000 ft., Kurz. 
Stem 4-8 in., erect, quadrangular, simple or slightly branched upwards. Leaves 
l4 by 2 in., base narrowed ; petiole sometimes } in. Cymes terminal, few-fld., axillary 
l-fid. peduncles sometimes added ; pedicels 0-4 in. Calyx-lobes $ in., ovate, acute ; 
Wings broad-lanceolate or ovate. Corolla-lobes 2 in., ovate-lanceolate. Anthers +; in., 
dehiscent finally nearly to the base. Capsule 3 in., subglobose. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
E. puncratum, Linn J. Suppl. 124; 1 shortly petioled 3-nerved glan- 
; . f. ppl. ; leaves very y P Á . 
dulose-punctate, corolla blue, stamens exserted yellow. Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 47. 
—Ixpu, Koenig. 
3. SEBIEA, R. Br. 
Erect, annual herbs. Leaves small, sessile. Flowers small, yellow, in 
terminal cymes. Calyx-lobes 4-5, keeled. Corolla-tube cylindric ; lobes 4-5 
patent. Stamens 4-5, on the upper part of the corolla-tube, filaments short 
Inéar; anther-ce]ls oblong, opening introrsely by longitudinal slits. Ovary 
completely 2-celled, placentæ large; style short, linear, stigma globose or 
Subspathulate, Capsule globose or ellipsoid, septicidally 2-valved. Seeds very 
many, minute, polyhedral, testa coarsely loosely reticulated.—Species 18; in 
rca, Madagascar, Australia, and N. Zealand. 
. S8. khasiana, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 428; cauline leaves j-à 
i. lanceolate-linear, cyme 1-7-flowered, calyx 5-partite. Cicendia microphylla, 
ü ^ti in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 83. Erythrea microphylla, Benth. in Gen. Pi. 
Kun W. Hiaraya ; Gurwhal, alt. 5-6000 feet, Edgeworth; NxrAr; Wallich. 
SIA Mrs., Kollong Rock, alt. 5500 ft., Clarke.—DISTRIB. Angola. . . 
Pedi 6 in., simple, slender, angular, glabrous. Radical leaves 0 at flowering ame 
Oe ‘eels Fi in., rigid, angular. Sepals } in., lanceolate, keeled, scarions- marga . 
"A lla-tube t in.; lobes lin.; elliptic. Anthers oblong, scarcely apiculate, without 
S'ands at the base, finally straight ; stigma a flattened ellipsoid, papillose on the edge. 
-:5. aurea, R, Br, (Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 52), has the upper leaves broader, but tl ie 
nh collected by Welwitsch in Angola is identical with the Indian, except that i 
ers are minutely apiculate. 2 
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