1076 GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain). | Seba. 
33. 8. intermedia (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™* sér. vi. 733) ; 
annual, erect, 24-4 in. high, usually simple ; internodes }—} in. long, 
leaves in 3 or 4 pairs, 3—5 lin. long, 2—6 lin. broad, broadly ovate or 
cordate, subacute or acute, somewhat fleshy ; inflorescences regular, 
compact, 3- to many-flowered ; branches about 5 lin. long ; pedicels 
4-1 lin. long; calyx-segments 34-4 lin. jong, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, with a wing $—? lin. broad, broadest below the middle, 
minutely pilose on the edge; corolla-tube 35-44 lin. long; lobes 
24-3 lin. long, $—? lin. broad, elliptic or narrowly ovate-oblong, 
unguiculate, acute ; filaments very short, inserted about } lin. below 
the sinuses ; anthers about } lin. long, with apical gland ; style 2-3 
lin. long ; stigma 1 lin. long, confluent with the swelling. 8. cor- 
data, var. intermedia, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, i. 191; Griseb. 
Gen. et Spec. Gent. 165. Belmontia cordata, var. intermedia, Griseb. 
in DC. Prodr. ix. 54; var. micrantha, E. Meyer, Comm. 183 ; Griseb. 
in DO. Prodr, ix. 54 partly ; not of Cham. & Schlecht. Belmontia 
intermedia, Knoblauch in Bot. Centralbl. 1x. 1894, 325; Gilg in Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xxvi. 101. 
Coast Reeron : Clanwilliam Diy. ; hills near Brakfontein, 150 ft., Schlechter, 
5287. Malmesbury Div. ; near Mooreesberg, 500 ft., Bolus, 9991! Paarl Div. ; by 
the Berg River near Paarl, Drége. Cape Div. ; Lion Mountain, Drége, Schlechter 
992, 1378! Signal Hill, Wilms, 3473 partly ! near Cape Town, Harvey! Raapen- 
berg, Mowbray, 40 ft., Guthrie, 176! Paarden Island, Wolley Dod, 3255 ! 
34. 8. Burchellii (Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 89); annual or 
biennial, erect, simple or branched from the base, 4-8 in. high, 
with a radical leaf-rosette ; basal leaves obovate or elliptic-obovate, 
subacute or obtuse, somewhat coriaceous, 5-8 lin. long, 24-4 lin. 
broad ; stem leaves ovate or triangular ovate, subacute, sometimes 
cordate at the base ; cymes regularly branched, 9- to many-flowered, 
branched, 5-8 lin. long, pedicels about } lin. long ; calyx-segments 
obovate, rounded or slightly apiculate, thickened on the back, 
2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad ; corolla-tube 2 lin. long ; lobes 1 lin. long, 
3-1 lin. broad, obovate, obtuse ; anthers about } lin. long, almost 
sessile, with three glands ; style $—} lin. long, swelling not visible ; 
stigma clavate. Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. 
(1903) 31. 
Katanart Raion: Griqualand West ; at Griqua Town, Burchell, 1869 partly ! 
Pre an gat between Waterval River and Zuikerbosh Rand, 4600 ft., Schlechter, 
Burchell’s 1869 is the type of S, Burchellii, Gilg, but two plants have been 
collected under this number, one of which belongs to this species, the other being 3 
S. pentandra, E. Meyer. eS 
35. §. Conrathii (Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvil. 
1903, 31); annual, erect, 6-11 in. high, simple or branched from — 
the base ; lowest leaf pairs very close making an apparent leat- 2 
rosette ; rosette leaves broadly obovate-oblong, often 3-1} in. long. 
- 5-8 lin. broad, herbaceous ; stem leaves ovate, subacute 3-12 
