1102 GENTIANEA (Hill and Prain). | Chironia. 
5. ©. gracilis (Salisb. ex Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 293 ; not 
of Michx) ; stems slightly angled, usually branching upwards, leafy, 
4-2 ft.; branches rather straight ; leaves narrow-linear or subulate, 
1-14 in. long, 4-} lin. wide ; flowers 2-3 or solitary, terminal, with 
peduncles }—1 in. long; calyx 4-5 lin. long, divided two-thirds to 
three-fourths ; lobes lanceolate or narrow-oblong, obtuse or acute, 
not subauriculate at base, often at length subpatent ; corolla-tube 
narrow-campanulate, shorter than calyx ; lobes oblong or ovate, 
obtuse or subacute, 4-6 lin. long, 3-34 lin. wide ; anthers straight ; 
ovary ovoid, obtuse, 3 lin. long. C. linoides, Thunb. Prodr. 
Pl. Cap. 35, in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 252, and Flor. Cap. ed. 2, 
ii, 108; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1070; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 282 (exel. 
syn. Breyn.); Burch. Trav. i. 19 (Cape Flats loc. only) ; E. Meyer, 
Comm. 179 (Elands Kloof loc. only); Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 
104 and in DO. Prodr. ix. 41 (eael. syn. C. uniflora, Eckl.) ; 
Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beith. xiv. 202, t. 16, fig. 4 (emel. syn. 
C. herbacea and C. uniflora and many cit.) ; not of Linn. C. 
linoides, var., Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. 736 partly. C. linoides, vur. 
subulata, E. Meyer, Comm. 180; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beth. 
xiv. 203 (eacl. syn. var. Zeyheri).  C. lychnoides, Cham. & Schlecht. 
in Linnea, i. 190 (eacl. syn. C. emarginata); not of Berg. OC. 
—° var. intermedia, Cham. in Linneea, vi. 343 ; not C. intermedia, 
erat, 
Var. 8, macrocalyx (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 294); much-brauched 
from the base; leaves linear, acuminate, 1-1} in. long, 1 lin. wide ; flowers 
usually solitary ; peduncles 1-14 in. long ; calyx 6 lin. long, divided halfway ; 
lobes wide-triangular ; corolla-lobes oblong, obtuse or retuse, 9 lin. long, 4-5 lin. 
wide. (. lychnoides, Thunb. Prodr. 35, in Trans. Linn. Soe. vii. 252, and FI. 
Cup. ed. 2, ii. 108 (as to sheet 8 in herb. propr. only) ; not of Berg. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Sparrman! Osbeck ! Burmann ! Krauss, 458 ! 
Lehmann! Thom! Reynaud! Belanger! Var. B : cultivated specimen ! 
Coast Recion: Van Rhynsdorp Div. ; Wind Hoek, Niven! Tulbagh Div. ; 
New Kloof, Zeyher! Tulbagh Kloof, Hcklon! Elands Kloof, 1000-1500 it., 
-Drége, 1894! Worcester Div.; near Dutoits Kloof, 1500-2000 ft., Drége! near 
Vogel Valley, Ecklon! mountains near Worcester, Rehmann, 2491! Cape Div.;— 
Cape Flats, Banks and Solander! Roxburgh! Halfer| Wallich! Bunbury ! 
Bergius! Burchell, 76! Ecklon, 642! Zeyher, 237! 1197 partly! Tiger Berg, 
Niven! Table Mountain, Ecklon, 40! Devils Mountain, Bunbury! Caledon 
Div.; Zwart Berg, Zeyher, 3424! near Caledon, Pappe! hills near Grabouw, 
1000 ft., Bolus, 4180! Miss Kensit in Herb. Bolus, 10482! between Brand Vlei 
and Villiersdorp, Bolus, 12997! Steenbrass River, 1150 ft., Marloth, 2848! 
Swellendam Div. ; without precise locality, Thunberg! Ludwig! Riversdale Div. ; 
near Garcias Pass, Burchell, 7147! Var. 8: Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Sonnerat | 
Wallich! Hooker, 607! Ecklon, 644! Lalande! Constantia, Mrs. Jameson | 
Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 619! Milne, 214! Harvey! Wright! Stellenbosch 
Div.; hills near Hottentots Holland, Thunberg! Krauss! Knysna Div. ; salt 
marshes and moist plains, Bowie, 5! Plettenbergs Bay, Bowie! 
In addition to the specimens recorded there is in Herb. Delessert a specimen of 
typical C. gracilis collected by Verreaux and marked ‘‘ Eutnage,” and in Herb. 
Vienna another marked ‘‘ Port Natal, Poeppig.” In the absence of further — 
material it is safer, for the present, to leave Uitenhage and Natal as doubtful 2 — 
localities. The form here treated as var. macrocalyx is outwardly very 
and is readily recognisable. As regards calyx it is intermediate 
