Sebea. | GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain). 1077 
long ; inflorescence a regular dichasium, many-flowered, with erect 
compact branches 6-9 lin. long; pedicels very short; calyx- 
segments elliptic, apiculate or acute, keeled, about 2 lin. long ; 
corolla-tube 2 lin. long ; lobes 14-1} lin. long, ? lin. broad, rounded ; 
filaments very short ; anthers } lin. long, with apical and two basal 
glands ; style 3-1 lin. long, with swelling ; stigma capitate. 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; in damp places at Modderfontein, Conrath, 
743 ! 
36. S. conspicua (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 325) ; 
annual (?) with numerous erect or somewhat spreading flowering 
branches, 3-4 in. high ; leaves obovate-oblong or spathulate, narrow- 
ing to form a petiole, 1-1} in. long, 5-7 lin. broad, somewhat 
fleshy, crowded at the base to form a false leaf-rosette ; inflorescences 
much-branched, usually many-flowered ; branches 4—6 lin. long ; 
pedicels about } lin. long; calyx-segments 3-3} lin. long, elliptic, 
acute, keeled ; corolla-tube about 3 lin. long; lobes 5-6 lin. long, 
14-13 lin. broad, narrowly ovate, elongate, subacute or slightly 
apiculate ; filaments } lin. long ; anthers 14 lin. long, with large 
apical glands ; style 3-3} lin. long, with swelling near base ; stigma 
capitate. 
Katanart Recon: Orange River Colony ; ina marsh near Harrismith, 7000 ft., 
Sankey, 173! 
37. S. elongata (E. Meyer, Comm. 184); annual, erect with a 
single stem 8-30 in. high, arising from a false rosette of closely 
packed basal leaves or more rarely a group of erect stems arising 
from the axils of the basal leaves; leaves at the base ovate-elliptic, 
subacute, or ovate, acute, }-1? in. long, 2-10 lin. broad, the erect 
stems bear from 4-6 widely separated leaf pairs, triangular or 
elliptic-ovate, acute, cordate at the base; cymes terminal, much- 
branched and crowded forming a corymbose capitulum ; branches 
2-3 lin. long; pedicels 4-1 lin. long; calyx-segments 23-34 lin. 
long, narrowly obovate, acuminate with a narrow keel-wing broadest 
about the middle ; corolla-tube 14-3 lin. long ; lobes 2-4 lin. long, 
1-1} lin. broad, elliptic-ovate or obovate, subacute ; filaments }—1 
lin. long ; anthers }-1} lin. long, glands inconspicuous ; style 1-4 
lin. long, with swelling near the base ; stigma capitate ; capsule 
ovoid with the upper half thickened. Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 96 ; 
Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 41; A. W. Hill 
in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 325. S. cuspidata, Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. 
Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 28. 
Coast Rxcion : Riversdale Div. ; Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7085 | mountains 
near Riversdale, Schlechter, 1840! Mossel Bay or Oudtshoorn Div. ; Robinson 
Pass, Bolus, 12993! Knysna Div. ; on a mountain near Roodemuur, between 
Plettenbergs Bay and Lange Kloof, 2000-2500 ft., Drége, 2827 | Uniondale Div. ; 
mountains near Avontuur, Bolus, 2402! 
A distinct species with its false rosette of closely placed radical leaves and tall 
greet flowering stems. A considerable range of variation is shown in the size of 
