1094 GENTIANEE (Hill and Prain). — [ Fwochaenium. 
1. EB. grande (Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 55); annual; stem 
erect, simple or branching above the base, very variable in size, 
3-14 in. high ; leaves ovate- or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
the lower usually minute and scale-like, separated by more or less 
long internodes, upper becoming larger, 1-14 in. long, with shorter 
internodes; flowers yellow, usually solitary ; calyx-segments 5, 
rarely 4, 8-12 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with a broad 
wing 4-1 lin. broad, broadest at the base; a ring of disc-scales 
occurs between the calyx and corolla; corolla-tube 8-11 Jin. long, 
suburceolate around ovary, gradually funnel-shaped upwards from 
the constriction ; lobes 4 or 5, broadly ovate, acute or apiculate, 
6-8 lin. long, 3-5 lin. broad ; flowers heterostyled ; short-styled 
flowers ; anthers 4 or 5, 1-1} lin. long, with large apical conical 
stipitate glands 2-1 lin. long, and two smaller basal glands ; 
filaments stout, 24-3 lin. long, inserted 3-3} lin. from the base of 
the tube ; style 1-2 lin. long ; stigma clavate, 14-1} lin. long, the 
top reaching about as far as the insertion of the filaments ; long- 
styled flowers: anthers practically sessile, inserted about 3 lin. 
above the base of the tube, 2—1 lin. long, adhering together laterally 
to form a ring round the style, and thus opening extrorsely, with 
3 glands, the apical }-}? lin. long, cylindrical or lanceolate, 
definitely stipitate; style 44-5 lin. long; stigma 24 lin. long, 
papillate, the stigmatic surface being free of the anthers ; ovary 
globose-ovoid, deeply grooved, 2 lin. long, the upper 1 or 3 having 
the wall of the capsule strongly thickened, the lower part thinner ; 
capsule opening probably as a pyxidium ; seeds minute. Plants 
bearing both long- and short-styled flowers have been collected 
in the same localities. Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 49 ; Schinz 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™° sér. vi. 745; A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 
1908, 337 ; var. major, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2"° sér. vi. 802. 
Belmontia grandis, E. Meyer, Comm. 183 ; Schinz in Vierteljahrsschr. 
Naturf. Gesellsch. Ziirich, xxxvii. 330 ; Baker and N. E. Br. in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i: 1904, 553. Seba grandis, Steud. Nom. ed. 2, 
1841, 550. Parasia grandis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 707. 
Parasia grandis, Hiern, var. major, S. Moore i Journ. Bot. 
1902, 384, 
Var. homostylum (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 338) ; agrees with the 
typical form as to the general vegetative characters, the plant being usually tall 
and more slender, with smaller leaves, in some cases the upper leaves being linear- 
lanceolate, 5 lin. long ; flowers usually white, sometimes yellow ; calyx-segments 
4 or 5, 5-8 lin. long ; corolla-tube 5-7 lin. long; lobes 4 or 5, 25-4 lin. long, 1-2 
lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute ; anthers 4 or 5, 4-# lin. long, with smaller 
apical and basal glands; filaments stout, 1 lin. long, inserted 3-34 lin. above the 
base of the corolla-tube ; style 24 lin. long ; stigma about 14 lin. long, on & level 
with the anthers ; ovary as in the typical form. Belmontia natalensis, Schinz im Bull. 
Herb, Boiss. ti, 220. Sebwa natalensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2"° sér. vi. 732. 
Katanart Rearon: Orange River Colony ; Thaba ’Nehu, Burke, 205! Miss 
Trollops! Free State Flats, Mrs. Barber! between Rhenoster River and Vaal — 
River, Mrs. Barber, 626! near Harrismith, 5500 ft., Sankey, 176! and without 
"precise locality, Zeyher, 1192! Cooper, 2758! Basutoland ; by the Caledon River, 
