1092 GENTIANE& (Hill and Prain). | Sebeea. 
70. S. spathulata (Steud. ex Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 55); 
perennial or biennial; rhizome short, creeping; flowering stem 
erect, 5-12 in. high, springing from a large rosette of radical leaves ; 
leaves elongate spathulate, obtuse, 1-54 in. long, 5-9 lin. broad, 
somewhat fleshy, the erect flowering stem bears 2 or 3 pairs of 
obovate subacute leaves; inflorescence a short cymose raceme 
bearing 2-3 pairs of lateral cymes ; branches 4—6 lin. long ; cymes 
compact, 7—15-flowered ; branches 2—3 lin. long; pedicels $—1 lin. 
long ; calyx-segments 4-43 lin. long, slightly united below, elliptie- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, with a slight keel; corolla-tube 
41-6 lin. long ; lobes about 3 lin. long, elliptic-obovate, unguiculate, 
14-1} lin. broad ; filaments very short situated in the corolla-tube, 
about 3-1 lin. below the sinuses ; anthers }-1} lin. long, with dark 
chocolate-brown conical apical glands about 1 lin. long, anthers 
usually free in the bud and syngenesious in the open flower ; style 
1-1} lin. long; stigma about } lin. long, clavate-bilabiate, swelling 
just below the stigma and more or less confluent with apex of the 
stigma below the base of the anthers. Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
2me sér. vi. 732; A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 334. S. Flana- 
ganii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™° sér. vi. 737. Belmontia 
_ spathulata, E. Meyer, Comm. 183; Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 55. 
B. Flanaganii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 413. 
' Centra Recion ; Aliwal North Div.; Witteberg Range, 7500 ft., Drége ! 
Katanart Region: Basutoland; damp shady banks of Buffalo River, above 
the waterfall, 8100 ft., Galpin, 6778! top of Mont aux Sources, 9500 ft., and 
Ruellenberg, Flanayan, 2080 ! 
rye Recon: Natal; Giants Castle, 6000 ft., Guthrie in Herb. Bolus, 
S. spathulata and S. Flanaganii appear to be the same thing, the original and 
only specimen of the former is in poor condition and has lost the large apical 
glands at the top of the anthers, as has also the Galpin specimen, the scar, 
however, is left, and as the plants agree in every other respect I have no 
hesitation in reducing S. Flanayanii, Schinz, to S. spathulata, Steud. SS. spathu- 
lata shows close resemblance in many points to S. thodeana, the stigma and 
swelling, however, in S. spathulata are always below the base of the anthers 
and more or less confluent, whilst in S. thodeana the stigma is capitate and 
smal] and situated above the anthers with a small swelling near the base of the — 
style below the anthers. 
71. S. Thomasii (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™° sér. vi. 
743); perennial or biennial; stems branched, procumbent, 9-9 
_in. long, sometimes rooting at the nodes or ascending }-1} in. 
high ; leaves numerous, either separated by internodes 3-6 lin. long 
or closely compacted to form a radical rosette after the manner of 
Gentiana verna, ovate or orbicular-ovate, 4-8 lin. long, 2-6 lin. 
broad, rounded or subacute, slightly apiculate, coriaceous, var nished 
and dark green above, paler below; flowers Gentian-like, usually 
solitary at the apices of the stems ; calyx-segments elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, 5}—6 lin. long, thickened and keeled on the back, united 
below to form a short tube ; corolla-tube cylindrical, 6-11 lin. long ;_ 
