1082 GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain). | Sebeea. 
long, }-1 lin. broad, obovate-elliptic, obtuse ; filaments } lin. long ; 
anthers 3—Z lin. long, with apical gland ; style 2}—3} lin. long, with 
swelling below the middle; stigma capitate. Schinz in Mitteil. 
Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 43. 
Eastern Recron: Tembuland ; near Bazeia, 2000 ft., Bawr, 82! near Elliot, 
Bolus, 19225! 10226! Griqualand East; mountains near Clydesdale, 2500 it., 
Tyson, 2726! and in MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 1289! 
Natal; Tugela, Gerrard, 1983! Coastland, Sutherland! hills near Richmond 
Road, Schlechter, 6738! Riet Spruit, 3000-4000 ft., Wylie in Herd, Wood, 10227 ! 
Zululand ; near Eshowe, Maxwell in Herb. Bolus, 9331! 
47. S. confertiflora (Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. 
1903, 51); annual or biennial? simple or branched, 6-10 in. high ; 
internodes $—3 in. long; leaves crowded, broadly triangular-ovate 
to cordate, subacute, 4—7 lin. long, 4—6 lin. broad, coriaceous ; cymes 
many-flowered, forming a dense rounded capitulum ; calyx-segments 
about 21 lin. long, elliptic, acute or apiculate, with keel ; corolla- 
tube 24-34 lin. long ; lobes 2-2} lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ovate-elliptic, 
subacute ; anthers 7-1} lin. long ; lobes sagittate at the base, apical 
gland, small ; style 3 lin. long, with swelling near the middle ; stigma 
capitate-clavate. 
Katanarr Recion: Transvaal; Spitz Kop, near Lydenburg, Wilms, 964! 
near Elandspruit Bergen, 6400 ft., Schlechter, 4000! Viakfontein ; near Amers 
Poort, Burtt Davy, 4049 ! ‘ 
Eastern Recon: Natal ; Mlovo, 2000 ft., Wood, 30! summit of Amajuba 
: -as ad ft., Burtt Davy, 7747! Mundy, 3758. Swazieland, 4500 ft., Challis, 
This species appears to be closely related to S. sedoides, but differs particu- — 
larly in the larger anthers (Wood, 30) which are sagittate at the base, the leaves 
also are triangular- rather than orbicular-ovate, and the inflorescence 1s more — 
definitely capitate than in S. sedoides, 
48. §. acuminata (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 328) ; 
perennial, erect, simple, 20-26 in. high ; leaves numerous, somewhat 
distant on the lower portion of the stem, crowded above, narrowly 
ovate-lanceolate below, linear-lanceolate above, acute, margins — 
retlexed, somewhat coriaceous, 44-64 lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad ; eymes 
compact, many-flowered ; branches 5-7 lin. long, slender ; pedicels 
about } lin. long; bracts linear ; calyx-segments 33 lin. long, 
narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, concave, with narrow keel- 
wing ; corolla-tube 22} lin. long; lobes 2} lin. long, }-1 lin. broad, 
elliptic-obovate, obtuse; filaments very short; anthers }-} lin. 
long, with apical gland; style 2 lin. long, with swelling below 
middle ; stigma capitate-clavate. 
Eastern Recon: Natal; near Boston, 3000-4000 ft., Wood! Gn Herb. 
_ British Museum.) ene 
49. 8, macrantha (Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 94); perennia 
or biennial ; stems stout, erect, unbranched, 20-25 in. high 5 
