1070 _ GENTIANEA (Hill and Prain). [Sebea. 
gland ; style 2 lin. long, with slight swelling ; stigma shortly clavate. 
Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 93; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. 
Liibeck, xvii. (1903), 25. 
Karanart Recion: Transvaal; Houtbosch Berg, in shady places, 6300 ft., 
Schlechter, 4767 ! 
Eastern Reaion ; Natal; Howick, in shady places, 3200 ft., Schlechter, 6783 ! 
19. §. filiformis (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 411) ; annual, 
erect ; stems slender, often hairy towards the base, 24-7 in. high, 
usually simple and terminated by a single flower, rarely 2-flowered ; 
leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, about 1 lin. long, separated 
by long internodes; calyx-segments 2-3} lin. long, elliptic or 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly fused together at the base 
and with narrow keel-wing ; corolla-tube 3-4 lin. long ; lobes 4 lin. 
long, 2-2} lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute ; filaments }— lin. long ; 
anthers 3-1 lin. long, with slender elongated apical glands ; style 
34-4 lin. long, with a large swelling up to 1 lin. long, 1 lin. above 
the base ; stigma bilobed, lobes 4-14 lin. long. Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxvi. 93; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903), 26. 
Coast Recion : Komgha Div. ; hills near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 37 ! 
Katanart Region: Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 972! Tzaneen Estate, 
Zoutspan Berg, 4500 ft., Zvans, 4014! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Cats Pass in Kentani Div., 600 ft., Miss Pegler, 
1188 ! Griqualand East ; Leitsa footpath on the Drakensberg Range, Maclear Div., 
7600 ft., Galpin, 6773! Natal ; Polela, 5000 ft:, Wood (in Natal Herb.), 1884! 
20. 8. exigua (Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. 
1903, 26); annual, erect, simple, rarely branching, 3-8 in. high ; 
wings of the stem often with short glandular hairs; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, acute, 1-4} lin. long ; cymes 1-3- (less commonly 
5-) flowered ; branches }-2 in. long, spreading; pedicels }—{ in. 
long ; calyx-segments 35-4} lin. long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, keeled, united below to form a cup 14-2 lin. long; 
corolla-tube 24-34 lin. long; lobes 34-44 lin. long, about 2 lin. 
broad, broadly ovate, unguiculate, obtuse or subacute; filaments 
variable, 1-14 lin. long; anthers 1-14 lin. long, with minute 
apical glands sometimes almost invisible; style 2}-34 lin. long 
with swelling near the base; stigma shortly bilabiate, with thick 
lobes. 8S. linearifolia, Schinz in Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Gesellsch. 
Ziirich, xxvii. 321; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 93. Chironia exigua, 
Oliver in Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 1229. 
