Sebzea. | GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain). 1089 
Coast Region : Alexandria Div. ; Zuurberg Range, Bolus, 9122! at Doorn Nek 
and Bontjes River, 2000-3000 ft., Drége! Albany Div.; mountains near 
Grahamstown, 2200 ft., Galpin, 375! Atherstone, 477 ! Misses Daly and Sole, 468 ! 
Stockenstrom Div.; Katberg, Shaw! Komgha Div. ; between Sandplaat and 
Komgha, 2200-3200 ft., Drege, 4921! 
EasteRN Recion: Transkei; near Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Pegler, 906! 
Kreilis Country, Bowker! Pondoland ; near Umtamvuna, Bachmann, 1040; and 
without precise locality, Ayrebs, 23%! Griqualand East; marshy places near 
Klein Pot River, in Maclear Div., 4500 ft., Galpin, 6774! Var. B: Griqualand 
East ; Doodmans Krans (at the junction of the Witteberg and Drakensberg 
Ranges in Mount Fletcher Div.), 8850 ft., Galpin, 6776 ! 
From a careful comparison of the available material, there appears to be no 
good ground for maintaining both §. semialata, Gilg, and 8. hymenosepala, Gilg. 
The principal difference in the description appears to be that in S. hymenosepala 
there are 3 glands to the anthers, whilst only an apical gland is found in 
S. semialata, This distinction, however, does not bold good, for the presence or 
absence of basal glands seems somewhat variable. S. hymenosepala, Gilg, is 
therefore adopted for the combined species; it is very closely allied to 
S. Rehmannii, Schinz, from the Transvaal and perhaps shouid be united with 
that species. The internodes are shorter, however, in S. hymenosepala and the 
leaves more reniform. Both these latter species are very like S. Rudol fii, 
Schinz, in general appearance, but it is separated from them by the position 
and character of the anthers. Schinz in his monograph of the genus (Mitteil. 
Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. 1903, 49) includes some other numbers under 
S. hymenosepala, Gilg, but they do not appear to belong to this species and 
have been excluded. Shaw’s specimen from the Kat Berg most nearly approaches 
var. grandiflora, 
64. 8. fastigiata (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 332) ; 
perennial or biennial, erect, stout, branched, 10-14 in. high; 
branches given off all the length of the stem; leaves numerous, 
Somewhat crowded, broadly ovate, acute, 4-5 lin. long, 4—7 lin. 
broad, somewhat coriaceous and slightly varnished above ; inflor- 
escences lax, composed of few-flowered cymes at the ends of lateral 
branches, branches leafy, inflorescence branches 33-74 lin, long ; 
pedicels 5 lin. long; bracts broadly ovate, acute or acuminate ; 
calyx-segments 34-44 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with 
keel-wing broadest at the middle, 1—} lin. wide ; corolla-tube about 
3% lin. long; lobes 34—4 lin. long, 13-24 lin. wide, obovate ; filaments 
2} lin. long; anthers 14-2 lin. long, with apical gland (? minute 
glands also) ; style 34—44 lin. long, with swelling ; stigma capitate. 
S. crassulefolia, Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 
50 partly, not of Cham. & Schlecht. S. hymenosepala, Gilg in Schinz, 
Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 49 partly. 
Coast Rearon: George Div. ; near George, Prior ! Uitenhage Div. ; Vanstadens 
Berg, Burchell, 4749 ! Albany Div.; mountains near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., 
Zeyher, 205! MacOwan, 16! Cooper, 25! Williamson! Signal Hill, near Grahams- 
eg Eeponbe sing 16, Howisons Poort, Schénland. Bathurst Div.; Port Alfred, 
ess & ’ i 
65. 8. Rudolfii (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™° sér. vi. 741) ; 
annual, erect; stems usually branching, 5-9 in. high; leaves 
‘humerous, broadly ovate, obtuse, 2} lin. long, 2 lin. broad, somewhat 
Corlaceous ; cymes rather densely corymbose, their branches 2 lin. 
VOL, I1V.—SECT. L—PART VI. as 
