1080 GENTIANE® (Hill and Prain). [ Sebeea. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Harvey, 618! ; 
Coast Recion : Uitenhage Div. ; Zuurberg Range, Drége. Alexandria Div. ; 
Quaggas Flats, Gill! Bathurst Div.; between Kaffir Drift and Port Alfred, 
Burchell, 3784! Albany Div. ; mountains around Grahamstown, 2000 ft., Bolton ! 
Glass in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1635 (at Kew, but not in the Berlin or 
Ziirich Herbaria) ! Komgha Div. ; hills near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 1180! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; around Kentani and near the coast, 100-1000 ft., 
Miss Pegler, 490! Kreilis country, Bowker, 14! 
42. §. primulina (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 327); 
annual, with a radical leaf-rosette and an erect flowering stem 1}—5 
in. high; leaves ovate, subacute, 4-8 lin. long, 2-3} lin. broad, 
fleshy, becoming narrowed to form a petiole, the erect stems usually 
single with one or two pairs of ovate or narrowly ovate-lanceolate 
leaves; cymes 2- to several-flowered ; branches 4-10 lin. long ; 
pedicels }—} lin. long ; calyx-segments 34-4 lin. long, ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute, united below to form a short cup, with a narrow keel- 
wing broadest about the middle ; corolla-tube 5 lin. long ; lobes 3$- 
4 lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad, spathulate, obtuse ; filaments } lin. long, 
inserted in the corolla-tube about 1 lin. below the sinuses ; anthers 
1-1} lin. long with an apical and two basal glands; style 4-4} 
lin. long, with swelling 1 lin. above the base ; stigma clavate, more 
or less bilabiate. 
Katanart Recon: Bechuanaland ; by the Moshowa River, near Takun, 
hig 2252/5! between Kuruman and the Vaal River, Cruickshank in Herb. 
us, 2540 ! 
A single small specimen in the Dublin Herbarium labelled ‘‘ Port Natal, Miss 
Owen” appears to belong to this species, but the material is insufficient for exact 
determination. 
43, §. vitellina (Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvil. 
1903, 38) ; perennial, erect, branched from the base, 2—3 in. high ; 
leaves cordate, acute, 24-34 lin. long, 2—3 lin. broad, somewhat 
coriaceous, margins reflexed ; cymes few-flowered ; branches 24—4 
lin. long ; pedicels about } lin. long ; calyx-segments elliptic, acute, 
24-3 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, with a slight keel ; corolla-tube 3-4 lin. 
long ; lobes 24-4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, obovate-elliptic, obtuse ; 
filaments }—3 lin. long ; anthers 1-1} lin. long, with minute apical 
glands ; style 34-4 lin. long, with swelling ; stigma capitate. 
Eastern Recon: Natal; plains near Catos Ridge, 3200 ft., Schlechter, 3259! 
near Durban, Sutherland! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 91! 
44. §. Dregei (Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Litbeck, xvii. 1903, 
51); perennial or biennial, erect, with stiff parallel branches, 10-14 
in. high ; lower leaves broadly triangular-ovate, somewhat cordate 
at the base, subacute, up to 5 lin. long, 6 lin. broad, reflexed, some- — 2 
what coriaceous with margins inrolled, upper leaves becoming 
narrowly triangular, acute ; cymes arranged in more or less compact 
‘narrowly oval heads ; branches about 5 lin, long; pedicels 1}-*2 
