Sebea. | GENTIANE (Hill and Prain). 1093 
lobes 5-63 lin. long, 3-4 lin. broad, ovate, acute, unguiculate ; 
filaments } lin. long, inserted 14-3 lin. below the sinuses; anthers 
1}-1 lin. long, with stipitate apical gland }—} lin. long and two 
smaller basal glands ; style about 2 lin. long ; stigma 1-1 lin. long, 
the apex below the base of the anthers ; capsule ovoid ; seeds small. 
A, W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 335. Parasia Thomasii, S. Moore 
in Journ. Bot. 1901, 260, and 1907, 154. 
Coast Reaion : Fort Beaufort Div. ; top of the Winterberg Range, Fraser ! 
Kauanari Recron: Orange River Colony; Mont aux Sources, 6500-10000 ft., 
Flanagan in Herb. Bolus, 8215! Bolus, 10664 partly ! and without precise locality, 
Pateshall Thomas ! 
EastTeRN Recion : Natal ; Tabamhlope, 6000 ft., Wylie in Herb. Wood, 10639 ! 
Giants Castle Pass, Wylie in Herb. Wood, 10639! Giants Castle, Guthrie in Herb. 
Bolus, 4882 partly ! 
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A very variable plant with either long procumbent stems or forming small 
plants terminated by a single flower closely simulating Gentiana verna, both as 
regards the form of the plant and the external appearance of the flower. In the 
structure of the flower this species is closely allied to S. spathulata, Steud., both 
in the anthers with their large apical glands and in the style, with its apex 
situated below the base of the anthers, in which its swelling appears to be 
confluent with the stigma or to almost entirely replace it. In this latter character, 
as also in the glandular hairs between calyx and corolla, this species shows an 
alliance with Exochenium. 
II, EXOCHANIUM, Griseb. 
Calyx 4—5-lobed; tube very short; lobes ovate - lanceolate, 
acuminate, winged ; disc-scale ring between calyx and corolla. 
Corolla 4—5-lobed ; tube suburceolate around ovary, funnel-shaped 
or cylindric above constriction ; lobes ovate or oblong, spreading. 
Stamens 4 or 5, inserted below corolla sinuses ; filaments included, 
usually stout (except in the long-styled flowers); anthers with 
apical glands, usually elongated, sometimes with two at the base (in 
long-styled flowers anthers are syngenesious and open extrorsely). 
Ovary 2-celled ; placentas axile; ovules many ; style filiform, with- 
out glandular swellings ; stigma elongate clavate, covered with long 
papillx, usually situated below the base of the anthers or more 
rarely on a level with them, in two or (?) more species the flowers 
are heterostyled and long, and sometimes short- and mid-styled 
flowers are found. Capsule globose or ovoid, coriaceous, septicidal ; 
valves 2. Seeds many, small, simple. 
Annual herbs apparently saprophytic or with mycorhiza ; stems erect, simple or 
branched, with decurrent wings; leaves opposite, sessile, herbaceous ; flowers 
small or large, yellow, less commonly white, solitary or more rarely in few-flowered 
terminal or axillary cymes. 
Distr. Species about 11, all Tropical African, one extending into South : 
Africa. 
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___ Some critical notes on this genus have been published in the Kew Bulletin, — 
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