1096 GENTIANE (Hill and Prain). _ [Orphium. 
Prodr. 35, Flor. Cap. ii. 110, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. vii. 250 ; 
Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 282; Burch. Trav. i. 37 ; Griseb. Gen. et Sp. 
Gent. 96. C. decussata, Vent. Jard. Cels, t. 31; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 
282; Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 6, 57; Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 797 ; 
Reichb. Ic. Bot. Exot. 16, t. 244. ©. grandiflora, Salish. Prodr, 137. 
C. latifolia, Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 2, 25. C. frutescens, var. hirsuta, 
Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, i. 190, mainly. C. orthostylis, Reichb. 
Ie. Bot. Exot. 16, t. 245. ©. fruticosa, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 
432. ©. dianthiflora, Hort. ex Garden, 1893, 213.  Roslinia 
frutescens, G. Don, Gen. Syst. Gard. iv. 203. 
Var. 8, angustifolia (Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 43); leaves linear, subterete, 
often glabrous, sometimes sparsely villous-pubescent, 1-1} in. long, 14 lin. wide ; 
peduncles and calyx glabrous or pubescent. 0. frutescens, E, Meyer, Comm. 
181, as to specimens. O. frutescens, var. glabra, E, Meyer, Comm. 181. Chirenia 
caryophylloides, Linn, Cent. ii. 12 ; Amen. Acad. ivy. 308. C. angustifolia, Curt. 
Bot. Mag. t. 818. C. frutescens, var. hirsuta, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, i. 190 
partly. C. frutescens, var. glabra, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, i. 190. 
C. frutescens, var. angustifolia, Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 96. Roslinia angustifolia, 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 208. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Sparrman! Oldenland | Osbeck | Spielhaus ! 
Breutel! Thom, 636! 687! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Recon: Cape Diy. ; Flats, sand-dunes and other places near Cape 
Town, Petiver! Sonnerat! Thunberg! Burchell, 8378! Wallich! Lehmann ! 
Hooker, 523! Harvey, 611! Miss Cole! Castelnau, 235! 236! 418! Milne, 171! 
Emerson! Pappe! Prior! Bunbury! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. 960! 
Wolley Dod, 352! Oaklands, Jameson! Camps Bay, near Little Lions Head, Prior! 
Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Thunberg ! Zeyher | Caledon 
—Div.; Thom, 1006! Swellendam Div.; between Grootvaders Bosch and Zuur- 
braak, Burchell, 7256! Riversdale Div.; near Riversdale, Schlechter, 2008 ! 
Uniondale Div. ; Long Kloof, Castelnau! Var. 8: Clanwilliam Div. ; between 
Berg Valley and Zwartbast Kraal, Drege! between Lange Valley and Branden- 
berg, 600-1000 ft., Drége! Ruy Stream, near Lange Valley, Zeyher, 3426 ! Cape 
Div.; near Cape Town, Sieber! Burchell, 414! Drége! Ecklon, 79! Wallich ! 
Lehmann! Castelnau! Harvey, 606! 608! Table Mountain, Ecklon, 647 ! near 
Rondebosch, Burchell, 729! Stellenbosch Div. ; around Somerset West, Zcklon, 
646! Riversdale Div. ; near Kaffirkuils River, 500 ft., Drége ! 
The variety here recognised appears very distinct, but there are intermediates 
connecting it with typical O. frutescens. Within each variety there is considerable 
variation ; in O. frutescens proper this is mainly restricted to differences in the 
breadth of the leaves, the character and amount of pubescence remaining uniform ; 
in var. angustifolia, it is mainly in the degree of pubescence that variation takes 
place, the leaves remaining uniform in shape and size. It so happens that the 
three gatherings by Drage, cited by Meyer when establishing the genus Orphium, 
all belong to var. angustifolia, Griseb. 
IV. CHIRONIA, Linn. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed ; tube short campanulate, sometimes nearly 
obsolete; lobes lanceolate, rarely ovate, usually keeled. Corolla 
5-lobed ; tube short or very short; lobes spreading, contorted. 
_ the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; anthers linear-oblong, straight or 
Stamens 5, usually inserted on the corolla-throat, sometimes with 
