1108 GENTIANE (Hill and Prain). [ Chironia. 
Centralht. Beih. xiv. 231. C. purpurascens, Rolfe in Oates, Matabeleland, ed. 2, 
404; Schoch in Bot, Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 219 partly ; not of Benth. et Hook, f. 
C. humilis, Baker & N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 555, hardly of Gilg. 
Kavanari Reeron: Bechuanaland ; neighbourhood of Takoon, Lemue ! Orange 
Riyer Colony; Leeuw Spruit or Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilten! Transvaal ; 
Magaliesberg Range and Aapies River, Burke, 124! Zeyher, 1193! Crocodile 
River, Zeyher, 1195! near Mooifontein, 5500 tt., Schlechter, 3552! Johannesburg, 
Mrs. de Jongh in Herb. Galpin, 1475! Var. B: Transvaal; near Pretoria, 
4000 ft., MeLea in Herb. Bolus, 3100! Rehmann, 4679! Fehr! between Pretoria 
and Johannesburg, Scott Elliot, 1356! near Johannesburg, Ommanney, 29! Rand ! 
Witwaters Rand, Mrs. Hutton, 926! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock! Heidelberg, 
Miss Leendertz. 1028! near Modderfontein, Conrath, 737! near Wilge River, 
4600 ft., Schlechter, 4122! Rustenburg, 4500 ft., Miss Nation! sources of 
Limpopo River, Nelson, 262! Nylstroom, Nelson, 283! between Porter and 
Trigardsfontem, Rehmann, 6613! near Lydenburg, Atherstone! Bronkhorst 
Spruit, Wilms, 973! Nelspruit, Zogers, 290! Gold-fields, Baines! Ermelo, 
Burtt Davy, 2192! Houtbosch (Woodbush), Rehmann, 5828! 5829! 5928 ! 
Bolus, 11114! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
The variety here recognised is considered a distinct species by Gilg and Sehoch. 
It differs so little from true C. humilis, Gilg, that Baker and Brown are perhaps 
justified in declining to treat it even as a variety. 
14. C. purpurascens (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii, 805); 
stems distinctly angled, simple or branching upwards, leafy, 13-2 
ft. long ; leaves below obovate or obovate-lanceolate, 1}—2 in. long, 
less often (form Bachmannii) lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, 3-6 lin. wide, 
higher up lanceolate, 14 in. or (form Bachmannii) linear-lanceolate 
or linear, 2-3} in. long, 14-2 lin. wide ; flowers 3-5 in terminal 
cymes often forming lax panicles with branches ascending, 14-2} in. 
and peduncles }—] in. long ; calyx 6-7 lin. long, divided almost to 
the base; lobes linear-subulate; corolla pink or purple; tube 
narrow-campanulate, shorter than the calyx; lobes lanceolate, 
acute, 6-8 lin. long, 1}—2 lin. wide; filaments glandular at the 
base ; anthers distinctly spiral ; ovary narrow-oblong, acute, 34 lin. 
long. Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 103; Knobl. in Bot. Centraibl. Ix. 
329 ; Wood, Natal PL. iii. part 4, 19, t. 288; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. 
Beth, xiv. 219. C. Bachmannii, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 103; 
Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 218. C. angolensis, Schoch in 
Bot. Centralbl. Beth. xiv. 228 (as to Natal plant only); not of Gilg. 
Plocandra purpurascens, E. Meyer, Comm. 182; Krauss, Beitr. Fi. 
Cap. und Natal. 122; Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 44. 
Var. 8, Tysonii (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 350); leaves larger, below oblong, 
3-34 in. long, 9-12 lin. wide, above lanceolate, 14 in. long, 2-2} lin. wide ; flowers 
on secondary cyme-branches sometimes 4-merous. (. T'ysonii, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxvi. 104; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beth. xiv. 217. 
Var. y, impedita (Prain, l.c.) ; flowers larger ; corolla-lobes ovate, acute, 10 lin. 
long, 5 lin, wide. » 
Eastern Recion : Pendclnd ; near Bates (long-leaved form =U. Bachmannii); 
Bachmann, 1037! Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, 2500~4000 ft., Schlechter, — ee 
6618! and (mixed with Bachmannti form), Tyson, 2118 in Herb. Zurich ! Zuur- = 
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