Exochenium.|  GENTIANE® (Hill and Prain). 1095 
Mrs. Barber, 20 ! Hall. Transvaal ; various localities, Rehmann, 5061, 6534, 
Nelson, 390! Wilms, 961! Galpin, 1291! Schlechter, 4137! Rand, 1227, Burtt 
Davy, 25! 1290! 7724! Nicholson in Transvaal Herbarium, 4809! McLea in 
Herb. Bolus, 5711! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 856! Tembuland ; Bazeia, 
2000 ft., Bawr, 155! Pondoland ; between Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, 
below 500 ft., Drége! between St. Johns River and Umtsikaba River, Drége. 
Natal ; coast-land, Sutherland! between Attercliff and Bothas Hill, 600-1500 ft., 
Sanderson, 98! Inanda, Wood, 10! Noods Berg, 2000 ft., Wood, 109! grass- 
fields, &e., 2000 ft., Wood, 247; near Tugela, Gerrard, 782! and without precise 
locality, Gerrard, 253! Sanderson, 292 partly! Cooper, 2754! Zululand ; 
Isandhlwana, Patteshall Thomas. Var. 8: Natal; near Durban, Drége, 4919 
partly ! near Umzinto, MeKen, 15! Clairmont, 20 ft., Wood, 6100 ; Noods Berg, 
Wood, 922! near Pinetown, 800 ft., Wood, 657 ; Eisdumbini, 1800 ft., Wood, 
133! Inanda, Wood, 541! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 292 partly ! 
Zululand ; Ngoya, 1000-2000 ft., Wood, 9322! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
III. ORPHIUM, E. Meyer. 
Calyz 5-lobed; tube campanulate ; lobes oblong, unkeeled, 
separated from corolla by an annular crenulate disk. Corolla 
5-lobed ; limb subrotate ; tube short ; lobes contorted. Stamens 5, 
declinate, inserted in corolla-throat ; filaments short, flattened at 
the base ; anthers linear-oblong, erect, at length twisted. Ovary 
1-celled, ovoid-oblong ; placentas intruded ; ovules numerous ; style 
filiform ; stigma capitate, dilated, simple. Capsule narrow-ovoid, 
septicidal ; valves 2 with inflexed placentiferous margins. Seeds 
numerous, foveolate. 
An erect virgately branching shrub, pubescent or rarely glabrescent ; leaves 
numerous, sessile, thick, linear or oblong ; flowers pink, showy, in terminal leafy 
cymes which are sometimes reduced to a single flower. 
Distris. A single endemic species. 
For critical notes on this genus see Kew Bulletin, 1908, 341. 
1. 0. frutescens (E. Meyer, Comm. 181, as to citation) ; shrubby ; 
stems 4-3 ft. long, much-branched ; branches virgate, leafy ; leaves 
opposite, decussate, flat, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate or sublinear, 
obtuse or subacute, usually villous-pubescent on both sides, 1-1} or 
rarely 2 in. long, 2-5 lin. wide; flowers usually in -3-flowered, 
sometimes 5-flowered cymes, or solitary; peduncles pubescent, 
3-1 in. long; calyx pubescent outside, 6 lin. long, divided 
half-way; lobes obtuse or rarely subacute; corolla rose-pink ; 
tube as long as calyx, narrow fusiform; lobes obovate-obtuse, 
10 lin. long, 5-6 lin. wide; anthers twisted ; ovary 3 lin. long, 
acute ; capsule 4 lin. long, 24 lin. wide. Griseb. in DO. Prodr. ix. 
43. O. frutescens, var. decussata, E. Meyer, Comm. 181. Chironia 
 afrutescens, cgay Min ae 1,.190; ed, 2,273; Berg. Descr. Pl. 
Cap. 45; Lam. Il. t. 108, fig. 1; Curt, Bot. Mag. t. 37 ; Thunb. . 
