1104 GENTIANEA (Hill and Prain), [Chironia, 
C. vulgaris, var. linoides, Cham. in Linnea, vi. 343. ©. linoides, — 
var. longifolia, Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 104 and in DO. Prodr. ix. 41. 
C. iuifera, Hort. ex Garden, 1893, 213 and 1899, 265; Kew Handlist 
Tend.. Dicot. 167. C. Ecklonii, Schoch in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™¢ sér. 
it. 1013, and in Bot. Centralbl. Beth. xiv. 212. 
South Arrica : without locality ; Grubs in Herb. P. J. Bergius! Wendland 
(Herb. Wilidenow, 4505)! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Recton: Clanwilliam Div.; Lamberts or Alexanders Kloof, Wallich! 
near Kzelsbank, Cedarberg Range, Drége! Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartland, Wallich | 
Nashkraal Hoek, near Hopefield, Bachmann, 993! Worcester Div.; Bains Kloof, 
Wawra. 17 | Hex River Valley, 1500 ft., Tyson, 7531 Cape Div.; Flats and hills 
near and around Capetown, Sparrmant Oldenland! Osbeck! Burmann! 
Brogniart ! Sonnerat! Banks and Solander! Masson! Wallich! Burchell, 461 730! 
Gaudichaud { Mund and Maire! Niven! Harvey, 404! 665! Lehmann! Bun- 
bury! Pappe! Cooper, 2808! Boos! Scholl! Rehmann, 1971! Bolus, 2877! 
Ecklon, 31! 64! Bergius\ Drége! Zeyher! Wolley Dod, 8031 Schlechter, 179! 
2791! Stellenbosch Div. ; summit of Hottentots Holland mountains, Zhunderg! 
Riversdale Div.; near Kaffirkuils River, Drége, 2242! George Div.; with- 
out precise locality, Bowie, 15! Verreaux! Knysna Div.; near Knysna, 
Pappe! 
In Herb. Delessert there is a specimen of C. linoides, collected by Verreaux, 
and noted by himself as being from ‘‘Eutnage.” No other collector has met 
with the species in the Uitenhage Div. ; the locality must therefore be cousidered 
doubtful. In Herb. Dublin there is another specimen of C.. linoides, collected 
by Wyley (82), aad noted by himself as being from ‘“ Namaqualand;” this 
locality, for the same reason, must also be considered doubtful. 
A distinct, easily recognised and unusually uniform species ; the statements 
to the contrary have arisen from the attempts to treat C. gracilis, C. emarginata 
and C. Zeyhert as forms or varieties of C. linoides. - 
8. C. Bansei (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 295); stems slightly 
angled, branched upwards, leafy, 1 ft. long (only part of stem seen) ; 
branches mostly alternate, rather straight, 3-6 in. long; leaves 
lanceolate, acute, 14-1? in. long, 24-3 lin. wide ; flowers 2-5 towards 
ends of branches on alternate peduncles, or solitary terminal, with 
peduncles {-13 in. long, slightly puberulous towards apex; calyx 6 
lin. long, divided four-fifths; lobes oblong, acute or subacute, 
unkeeled ; the short tube faintly puberulous ; corolla-tube cylindric 
as long as the calyx ; limb narrowed ; lobes elliptic, obtuse, 8-9 lin. 
long, 6-7 lin. wide ; anthers faintly spiral ; ovary ovoid, subacute, 
4 lin, long. 
Sour Arrica : without locality ; cultivated specimen ! 
No spontaneous example of this remarkable form has been met with in any 
collection. The only specimen seen was collected by Banse in the Berlin Botanic 
Garden, where it was grown as C’. barclayana and believed to be from the Cape. 
i — aha to some extent a combination of are nee with ey C. ae 
whereof, thoug’ in all its parts, it has the genera ies, and in Orphiw 
of whioh i has the corolla and with ae it agrees in having uukeeled 
_ ¢alyx-lobes. The pubescence which, however, is very alight, is like that, met with 
in Orphium, ere is no trace of the intracalycine disk characteristic of that 
of that 
