Segments and by the larger and more 
Sebzea. | GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain). 1067 
into a fairly dense more or less corymbose inflorescence ; leaves in 
3—6 pairs, broadly ovate, acute, 3-5 lin. long, 2-4 lin. broad ; cymes 
compact corymbose ; primary branches } to 14 in. long ; pedicels 
from almost sessile to 4 lin. long ; calyx-segments 2 lin. long, ovate, 
acute, boat-shaped, mucronate, with a keel-wing } lin. broad, 
broadest below the middle; corolla-tube about 2 lin. long ; lobes 
2 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, elliptic, obtuse, apiculate ; filaments 
very short; anthers } lin. long, with an apical gland ; style 14 lin. 
long, with a median swelling ; stigma clavate, more or less deepl 
bilabiate. Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 20. 
Coasr Reaion: Cape Div. ; Fish Hoek Valley, Wolley Dod, 3486! behind 
Houtsbay hotel, Wolley Dod, 3270! west slope of Slang Kop, Wolley Dod, 3146 ! 
$252! near Smitswinkel bay, Wolley Dod, 3058 ! 
12. 8. Gilgii (Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. 1903, 
27) ; annual, erect, unbranched, slender, 2-8 in. high ; leaves in 
3—5 pairs, obovate, obtuse or subacute, 1-3 lin. long, $—14 lin. broad, 
slightly coriaceous ; cymes few-flowered, compact ; branches 3-5 lin. 
long ; calyx-segments 14-1} lin. long, obovate-oblong, slightly erose, 
mucronate, with narrow keel-wing, most definite above middle ; 
corolla-tube 13-2 lin. long; lobes 13 lin. long, ovate, obtuse or 
subacute ; filaments 3-} lin. long; anthers 3—} lin. long, with an 
apical gland; style 1 lin. long, with swelling; stigma capitate 
A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 322. 
Coast Recon: Cape Div. ; near a stream on a flat on Muizenberg Mountain, 
alt. 1300 ft., Schlechter, 150! 
13. 8. pallida (E. Meyer, Comm. 185); annual, erect, 3-5 in. 
high, simple or branching from the base ; leaves in about 4 pairs, 
herbaceous, cordate or ovate, more or less acute, basal leaves 
smaller, 2-4 lin. long, 2-4 lin. broad ; cymes usually consisting 
of 2 main branches, more or less densely branched ; corymbose 
branches 6-12 lin. long; pedicels 2-3 lin. long; calyx-segments 
oblong-lanceolate, concave, acute or mucronate, 2-24 lin. long, with 
a keel-wing $—} lin. wide, widest below the middle ; corolla white ; 
tube 17-2 lin. long; lobes 24-3 lin. long, 14-1? lin. wide, ovate- 
elliptic, subacute ; filaments about $ lin. long; anthers 3-1 lin. 
long, with an apical gland; style 2-23 lin. long, with a median 
swelling ; stigma bilabiate. A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 323. 
S. aurea, var. pallida, Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. 
(1903) 20. 
Coast Region: Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh Kloof, 300 ft., Bolus! Malmesbury 
Div. ; near Moorreesburg, Bolus, 9992! Cape Div. ; Fishoek Valley, Wolley Dod, 
3437 ! Cape Flats, Wolley Dod, 425! Lion Mountain, Drége! Prior ! Bolus, 7212 ' 
Flats between Cape Town and Tyger Valley, Drege! Simons Bay, Wright, 98 ! 
Swellendam Div.; mountains along the lower part of the Zondereinde River, 
Zeyher, 1187, partly ! 
___ This species, which has been merged into S. awrea by Schinz, is no doubt very 
¢ allied to it, but is istinguished by the wide basal wings of the calyx- 
losely allied to it, sons ca rho be aa y 
