Sebaea. | GENTIANE (Hill and Prain). 1075 
i. 191 ; Cham. in Linnea, vi. 345.  Gentiana exacoides, Linn. Spec. 
Pl. ed. 2, 332; Thunb. Prodr. 47, and Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 172. 
Ezacum cordatum, Linn. f. Suppl. 124. Belmontia cordata, E. Meyer, 
Comm. 183; Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 54; Schinz in Vierteljahrsschr. 
Naturf. Gesellsch. Ziirich, xxxvi. 329; Knoblauch in Bot. Centralbl. 
Ix. 326.—Centaurium perfoliatum, etc., Burm. Rar. Afr. Pl. t. 74, 
jig. 5. Centaurium capense, minus, etc., Seba, Mus. i. t. 22, fig. 7. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Hceklon & Zeyher, 653, Thom, 707! 734! 
Harvey, 617! Pappe! Forbes ! 
Coast Recion: Malmesbury Div.; near Moorreesburg, 500 ft., Bolus! near 
Groene Kloof (Mamre), 300 ft., Bolus, 4429! Paarl Div.; between Paarl and 
Lady Grey Bridge, Drége! Cape Div.; various localities in the vicinity of Cape 
Town, Spielhaus, Bowie! Ecklon, 729! Zeyher, 1189! Hooker, 437! Cooper, 2753! 
Bolus, 2875! 4429! MacOwan, 365! Rehmann, 759! 1708! Wilms, 3472! 
Schlechter, 1377! Wolley Dod, 169! 170! 3269! Simons Bay, Wright! 
Stellenbosch Div. ; Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 968! Caledon Div.; by the River 
Zondereinde, Pappe! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Mund, Prior! Rivers- 
dale Div. ; Garcias Pass, 1200 ft., Galpin, 4339! 
Iu the Dublin herbarium there are 2 specimens collected by Pappe in 
moist places on the Rivier Zonder Hinde, which have dentate edges to the 
corolla-lobes, but otherwise agree with the typical form, in which a slight 
dentation of the petals is sometimes visible. 
82. S. micrantha (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™° sér. vi. 739, 
partly) ; annual, erect, unbranched, 1-5 in. high; leaves in 3-4 
pairs, usually collected towards the base of the stem, broadly ovate, 
rounded or cordate at the base, obtuse or subacute, apiculate, 
slightly fleshy, 24-4 lin. long, 2—4 lin. broad ; inflorescences compact, 
dense, conspicuous from the large calyx-wings ; branches 1—2 (more 
rarely 4-5) lin. long; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts ovate to 
linear-lanceolate, acute, fringed with short bristle-like hairs ; calyx- 
segments lanceolate, acuminate, 3-3} lin. long, with a wing 14-1} 
lin. broad, broadest at the base, strongly veined and fringed on the 
edge with short bristlelike hairs; corollatube 2}—27 lin. long ; 
lobes 14-2 lin. long, }-} lin. broad, narrowly obovate or elliptic, 
acute, sometimes slightly erose; filaments very short, inserted 
about } lin. below the sinuses ; anthers about 4} lin. long, with 
apical gland ; style 13-2 lin. long ; stigma clavate-bilabiate, confluent 
with the swelling. . cordata, var. micrantha, Cham. & Schlecht. in 
Linnza, i. 192; Griseb. Gen. et Spec. Gent. 165. Belmontia 
cordata, var. micrantha, Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 54 partly. 
B. micrantha, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 102 partly.—Centaurium 
perfoliatum, exthiopicum, Pluk. Almagest. ii. 94, t. 275, fig. 4. 
Sourn Arnica: without locality; Plukenet (in Herb, Sloane)! Harvey, 615! 
Ecklon ! 
Coast Recion : Cape Div. ; above Oatlands House, Wolley Dod, 2842! Old road 
to Constantia Nek and behind Houts Bay Hotel, Wolley Dod, 3171! by Camps _ 
Bay Hotel, Wolley Dod, 1723; path near Smitswinkel Bay, Wolley Dod, 2931 ! 
Devils Peak, Wilms, ae aes Ie Mountain, 250 ft., Schlechter, 1376! Sea Point, 
Div. ; Zwart Berg, 
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