1064 GENTIANE® (Hill and Prain). [ Sebeea. 
in. long; pedicels and ultimate branches very short, with flowers 
collected into small capitate cymules ; larger bracts deltoid-ovate, 
smaller ovate ; calyx-segments 2 lin. long, obovate or more or less 
cuneate, toothed, concave, with a short broad thick wing at the apex 
only ; corolla white ; tube 1-2 lin. long ; lobes {-1 lin. long, 4-3 
lin. wide, ovate, obtuse ; filaments very short ; anthers i lin. long, 
with an apical gland ; style 1 lin. long, glandular thickening not 
noticeable ; stigma capitate, minutely bifid. Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxvi, 88; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 16. 
Coast Rgcion : Cape Div. ; shore at Slang Kop, Wolley Dod, 3253 ! Riversdale 
Div. ; near Riversdale, 300 ft., Schlechter, 1701! Port Elizabeth Div. ; along the 
Baakens River, near Port Elizabeth, Burchell, 4840! Port Elizabeth, £. S.C. A. 
Herbarium, 71! 
6. 8. ambigua (Cham. in Linnea, vi. 346 and viii. 52); annual, 
erect, normally 3-6 in. rarely 12-16 in. high, simple or branching 
from the base ; leaves in 4-5 pairs, fleshy, broadly ovate or cordate, 
subacute, about 6 lin, long, 6 lin. wide; cymes densely branched ; 
flowers collected into cymose capitula, inflorescence corymbose ; 
bracts deltoid-ovate or ovate, more or less acute ; calyx-segments 
2 lin. long, obovate or cuneate, rounded, erose, with a short broad 
thickened wing at the apex only ; corolla-tube 2 lin. long; lobes _ 
2 lin, long, 1-14 lin. wide, ovate, rounded ; filaments about 1 lin. 
long; anthers about 1 lin. long, with a large apical gland ; style 
2-3 lin. long, with a median glandular swelling not always distinct ; 
stigma shortly 2-lobed or subentire and clavate. Griseb. Gen. et 
Spec. Gent. 171 and in DO. Prodr. ix. 52; Schinz in Vierteljahrsschr. 
Natur. Gesellsch. Ziirich, xxvii. 315 ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 88 ; 
Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 17; A. W. Hill 
in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 320. S. aurea, R. Br., var. congesta, Eckl. et 
Zeyh. ex Drege in Linnea, xx.195. S, crassulefolia, Zeyh., S. albens, 
Zeyh., and S. pallida, Zeyh. non E. Meyer, ex Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. 
Ges. Liibeck, viii. (1903) 17. S. ambigua, var. gracilis, Cham. im 
Linnea, vi. 346 ; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 
18 partly. S. ambigua, var. crassa, Cham. in Linnea, vi. 346 ; 
Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 18. 
Coast Rraion: Cape Div. ; in various localities near the sea shore on the Cape 
Peninsula, Ecklon, 77! Burke! Prior! Harvey, 613! Milne, 64! MacGillivray, 
593! 598b! Grey! Schlechter, 7308! Wolley Dod, 2013! 3062! 3273! Wilms, 
3475, partly ! a 
7. 8. gibbosa (Wolley Dod in Journ. Bot. 1901, 401) ; annual, 
6-8 in. high, branching from the base; leaves in 6-8 pairs, 
somewhat fleshy, broadly: ovate, obtuse or subacute, 3-6 lin, long; 
3-6 lin. broad, subcordate at the base; cymes densely branched, 
ultimate cymes distinct ; branches 7-9 lin. long ; pedicels 3-1} lin. 
long; bracts lanceolate, acute ; calyx-segments 1 lin. long, obovate: — 
oblong, concave, obtuse or apiculate, with an apical rather broad! 
