Chironia.] GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain). 1109 
berg, between Kokstad and Clydesdale, 5000 ft., 7'yson, 1161! Natal ; between 
Umzimkulu River and Umkomaas River, Drége, 4923! Umlaas, Wood, 876! 
near Durban, Avauss, 192! Wood, 141! Gerrard, 669! Plant (Bachmannii 
form), 46! 48! Clairmont, Wood, 1154! Coastland, Sutherland! Sanderson 
( Bachmannii form), 170 ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 463 | Sanderson, 
446 partly ! Zululand ; without precise locality, Mrs. McKenzie! Gerrard (Bach- 
mannii form), 550! Var. 8.: Griqualand East ; near Clydesdale, 2500-4000 ft., 
Tyson, 2113 in Herb. Kew! and in MacOwan and Bolus, Herb, Austr.-Afr. 1290 ! 
Var. y: Natal; Ixopo, Avo0k, 2028 ! 
We are unable to separate C’. Bachmannii from C. purpurascens ; the two occur 
in the same localities and are connected by intermediates. We retain the variety 
Tysonii mainly because Dr. Gilg finds that Bolus, 1290 at Berlin, collected by Tyson, 
on which C, Z'ysonii is based, has all save the primary flowers of its cymes 4-merous. 
This is not the case with any specimen of this gathering in other herbaria ; 
> i of the specimens, indeed, are true C. purpurascens, others are the Bachmannii 
orm. 
15. C. Peglere (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 297); stems 
distinctly angled, much-branched, erect, 1 ft. long ; branches ascend- 
ing ; leaves wide-ovate, base rounded, subacute or obtuse, 5—j in. 
long, 4-5 lin. wide; flowers terminal and in the upper axils ; 
peduncles 14-2 in. long; calyx 9-10 lin. long, divided almost to 
the base; lobes linear-subulate; corolla-tube narrow-cylindric, 
hardly as long as the calyx ; limb narrowed ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, 4 lin. long, 14 lin. wide ; anthers distinctly spiral ; 
ovary narrow-oblong, acute, 4 lin. long. 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Kentani, in valleys at 1000 ft., Miss Pegler, 428! 
A very distinct species, most closely related to C. peduncularis, from which it 
is readily distinguished by the angled stems, smaller and thinner leaves, and 
much smaller flowers as well as by the spirally twisted anthers. In this last 
character the species agrees with those of the section Plocandra, where, however, 
though the calyx is as in Hippochkiron, the corolla-tube is different, being 
shorter than the calyx and widened under the limb. 
16. C. peduncularis (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxi. t. 1803); stems 
terete, leafy, much-branched, decumbent, 3-4 ft. long; branches 
diffuse ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, base rounded or cordate, acuminate 
or acute, 11-2} in. long, 6-9 lin. wide ; flowers 1-3 terminal and in 
the upper axils; peduncles 14-3 in. long; calyx 7 lin. long, 
divided almost to the base; lobes linear or lanceolate, acuminate ; 
corolla-tube narrow-cylindric, rather larger than the calyx ; limb 
narrowed ; lobes ovate, acute or acuminate, 9 lin. long, 5-6 lin. 
wide; anthers straight ; ovary narrow-oblong, acute, 6 lin. Jong. 
Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 100, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 39; Gard. 
Chron. 1888, iv. 324, fig. 42; Scott and Breb. Ann. Bot. v. 277 ; 
Garden, 1893, 212, t. 925; Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 7047 ; Knobl. in 
Bot. Centralbl. lx. 329. C. trinervis, Hort. ex Loud. Encyel. Pl. 
Suppl. ii. 1306 ; Paxt. Mag. Bot. iii. 149, with plate. C. trinervia, 
Hort. ex Ann. Fl. et Pomone, 1834, 158 with plate; not of Linn. 
C. barelayana, Hort. Berol, ex Griseb, Gen, et Sp. Gent. 100, 
