1062 GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain). | Sebeea. 
Cymes almost sessile, 1-5-flowered : 
Stamens in the corolla-sinuses ; anthers with 
a yellow apical gland... is ... (66) repens. 
Stamens inserted slightly below the corolla- 
sinuses; anthers with a large black , 
apical gland : avs Es ... (67) Marlothii. 
Cymes borne on erect stems ; stamens in the 
corolla-sinuses or just below them : 
Anthers with yellow apical glands and 2 basal 
glands; filaments very short... ... (68) procumbens. 
Anthers with large black apical glands ? minute 
basal glands ; filaments } lin. long _—... (69) thodeana. 
Group 2. Brevistylw. Stamens inserted in the — 
corolla-tube ; style without biglandular swell- 
ing; stigma below the base of the anthers. 
Plants with a rosette of long spathulate leaves ; 
inflorescence erect; anthers with a large 
black apical gland... ee ius ... (70) spathulata. 
Creeping or rosette-forming plants; flowers 
usually solitary, terminal, almost sessile ; 
anthers with 3 glands, yellow au ... (71) Thomasii. 
1. 8. capitata (Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, i. 193); annual, 
erect, 4-8 in. high, simple or branching at the base; leaves 
herbaceous, ovate or elliptic, acute, basal leaves narrowed to a 
short petiole, 5-7 lin. long, 24-44 lin. broad; cymes compact, 
fastigiate, 5—-10-flowered ; branches 7-12 lin. long ; pedicels very 
short, about } lin. long ; calyx-segments about 4 lin. long, boat- 
shaped, ovate, acute, with a thickened wing ; corolla-tube 2—2} lin. 
long ; lobes ovate, subacute, 3 lin. long, about 2 lin. broad ; anthers 
1 lin. long, glands absent ; filaments about 1 lin. long ; style 2 lin, 
long, without glandular swelling; stigma clavate (? biligulate). 
Griseb. Gen. et Spec. Gent. 166, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 53; Schinz im 
Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Gesellsch. Zitrich, xxvii. 313 ; Gilg in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxvi. 87; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvu. 
(1903) 15. 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; summit of Table Mountain, Burchell, 561! 
hood Dod, 2122! 3500 ft., Miss Kensit in Herb. Bolus, 9356! Mund and 
avre, : 
size from the base, ovate or cordate, acute, 4—5 lin. long, i Wi lin. = a 
ranches — 
