Sebeea. | GENTIANEA (Hill and Prain), 1063 
_ _ Coast ReGion ; George Div. ; on the Post Berg (Cradock Berg), near George, 
Burchell, 5897 ! Montagu Pass, Rehmann, 266 ! 
Sebxa sclerosepala shows striking similarity to S, capitata in certain particulars, 
and it seems possible that further collections may require the union of these two 
species. The few examples of these species in our herbaria show 8. sclerosepala to 
be a taller plant than S. capitata with more scattered leaves and fewer flowered 
inflorescences, the flowers also are larger. In both species, however, the anthers 
are destitute of glands and the style has no glandular swelling. 
3. 8. laxa (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1901, 128); annual, 
erect, lax, 4-10 in. high, branched ; leaves numerous, lanceolate or 
ovate, acute or acuminate, subpetiolate, 1-4 lin. long, 3-12 lin. 
broad; cymes lax, 1-15-flowered; branches about 5 lin. long ; 
pedicels 1-3 lin. long; calyx-segments 14 lin. long, lanceolate, 
acute, with very narrow keel-wing ; corolla yellow ; tube 13-1 lin. 
long ; lobes 2-24 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
subacute ; filaments } lin. long; anthers 4 lin. long, with apical 
gland ; style 1} lin. long, with swelling, clavate. Schinz in Mitteil, 
Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 21. 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; Zuurbraak Mountain, 3000 ft., Galpin, 
4337 ! Riversdale Div. ; on the Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7089 ! 
4. 8. albens (R. Br. Prodr. 452); annual, erect, unbranched, 
stout ; leaves in 3-5 pairs, ovate, obtuse or subacute, somewhat 
fleshy, 2-7 lin. long, 14-5 lin. broad ; cymes much-branched, many- 
flowered, forming a flat corymbose inflorescence ; pedicels very short ; 
calyx-segments elliptic-obovate, obtuse, apiculate, broadly rounded 
on the back, neither keeled nor winged; corolla pale yellow or 
white ; tube 1} lin. long; lobes 14-3} lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad, 
oblong to elliptic, obtuse; anthers 4-1} lin. long, with a large 
gland at the apex; style 1-22 lin. long, with a swelling rather 
below the middle; stigma bilabiate. Griseb. Gen. et Spec. Gent. 
171; and in DO. Prodr. ix. 53; Cham. in Linnea, vi. 345; 
£. Meyer, Comm. 185; Schinz in Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Gesellsch. 
Aiirich, xxxvii. 313 ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 88 ; Schinz in Mitteil. 
Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 22. Exacum albens, Linn. f. Suppl. 
123 (ewxel. syn. E. pedunculatum, Linn.). Gentiana albens, Thunb. 
Prodr, 48, 
Coast Rearon : Piquetberg Div. ; Piquetberg Range, near Groen Valley, below 
1000 ft., Drége! Malmesbury Div. ; near Groene Kloof (Mamre), 300 ft., Bolus, 
4308 ! Cape Div. ; Salt River, Burchell, 682! Green Point, Mactiillivray, 594 ! 
Cape Flats, 0-100 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1925! Fish Hoek Valley, 
Wolley Dod, 3439! 3439a! by a creek beyond Paarden Island, Wolley Dod, 3311 ; 
Sand-downs, Capetown, Prior! and without precise locality, Harvey, 612! 
Thom, 652! Pappe! Wallich! Forster ! 
_ 5. 8. minutiflora (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 413) ; annual, 
erect, 6-8 in. high, simple; leaves ovate or cordate, subacute, 
4-6 lin. long, 4-7 lin. wide, more or less fleshy, smaller near 
_ the base ; cymes corymbose, richly branched; main branches 14 
