Sebexa. | GENTIANEA (Hill and Prain). 1069 
2 lin, long; calyx-segments 3-4 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, 
acuminate, concave, with keel- wing ? lin. broad, broadest below the 
middle ; corolla-tube 3} lin. long ; lobes 1}—1} lin. long, 4 lin. broad, 
elliptic, subacute ; filaments very short, inserted } lin. below the 
sinuses ; anthers }—} lin. long, glands minute or absent ; style 14-13 
lin. long ; stigma shortly bilobed. Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
2me sér. vi. 733. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Wallich. 
Coast Recion : Cape Div.; Cape Flats between Uitvlugt and Duinefontein 
Road, Wolley Dod, 3413! Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek, 900 ft., Schlechter, 9376 
partly ! Caffraria, Fraser (in Edinburgh Herbarium) ! 
17. 8. mirabilis (Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 92) ; annual, erect, 
unbranched, 3-8 in. high ; stem-wings glandular especially near the 
base of the stem; leaves in 3-5 pairs, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acute, 1-3 lin. long, about }$ lin. broad, with a glandular patch 
on the back, upper leaves the larger; cymes lax, spreading, 
1—9-flowered ; branches up to 1} in. long; pedicels 4—5 lin. long ; 
calyx-segments united below to form a shallow cup, 3-4 lin. long, 
ovate or elliptic, acuminate, with keel-wing about } lin. broad, 
broadest at the base; corolla-tube 25-3) lin. long; lobes 4—5 lin. 
long, 17-21 lin. broad, elliptic-lanceolate, acute ; filaments 3-1} lin. 
long ; anthers 1-1} lin. long, with small apical gland; style 34-4 
lin. long, swelling when present about 2 lin. above the base; 
stigma clavate, variable in size up to } lin. long, bilabiate, papillose 
on all sides. Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 35 ; 
A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 324. 8. pratensis, Gilg in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxx. 377, 378, figs. A-F; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. 
Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 38; Baker & N. E. Br. in Dyer, Flor. Trop. Afr. 
iv. i, 550. 
KanaHarI Reaion: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2756! Transvaal; Spitz 
Kop, near Lydenburg, Wilms, 971! 
Eastern Recaron: Transkei; near Tsomo, MJ/rs. Barber, 845! near Kentani, 
1000 ft., Miss Pegler, 1187! Tembuland, Bazeia Mountain, 4000 ft., Baur, 621! — 
Griqualand East ; ‘‘ Woodlands ” Farm, in Maclear District, 5600 ft., Galpin, 
6772! Natal; Mid-Illovo, 1000-2000 ft., Wood, 1884! 
S. mirabilis shows close relationship to S. exigua and S. Siliformis, Schinz, in the 
glandular wings of the stem, the bilabiate stigma and in its general habit, it 
is distingui 
istinguished chiefly by the winged calyx-segments, which are only slightly 
united at the base, 
18. §. Junodii (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 442); annual, 
erect, slender, unbranched, 3-6 in. high; leaves in 4-5 pairs, 
inconspicuous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, }—-1} lin. long; cymes few- 
flowered, variable, lax; branches when developed 14-1} in. long ; 
pedicels 1—4 lin. long ; calyx-segments elliptic-lanceolate, with narrow 
_ wing, acuminate, 21 lin. , slightly united at the base ; corolla- 
tube 2 lin. long; lobes 14-2 lin. long, narrowly ovate, acute ; 
filaments 4-1 Tin. long; anthers J lin. long, with very small apical 
