1110 GENTIANEA: (Hill and Prain). | Chironia. 
C. latifolia, E. Meyer, Comm. 178; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beth. 
xiv. 221; not of Donn. Eupodia purpurea, Raf. Fl. Tellur, iii. 29. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Recion: George and Knysna Divs. ; Outeniqualand and in Knysna 
Forest, Bowie, 9! Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, MacOwan, 1058! Port 
Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, Burchell, 4302! Verreaux! Drége, 
2238! Prior! Zeyher, 3427! Fraser! Bolus! Miss West, 30! Algoa Bay, Cooper, 
1476! Prior! marshes at Krakakamma, 500 ft., MacOwan, 1058! Alex- 
andria Div.; Oliphants Hoek Forest, Zel:lon, 640! Bathurst Div. ; between 
Kasuga River and Port Alfred, Burchell, 3929! at Oliphantshoek on the Bush- 
mans River, Ecklon! near Port Alfred, South! Albany Div.; without precise 
locality, Miss Bowker! East London Diy. ; near East London, Watson ! 
17. C. jasminoides (Linn. Pl. Afr. Rar. 9) ; stems faintly angular, 
simple or little branched, remotely leafy, especially below, 2—3 ft. 
long ; lower leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, subacute or acute, 
rarely ovate, subobtuse, 14-2 in. long, 4-5 lin. wide, upper 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 14—2 in. long, 3-4 lin. wide, glaucous 
when young on both sides, persistently so beneath; flowers 
occasionally solitary, usually few, sometimes 9-15 in subpaniculate 
terminal cymes with ascending branches 1}—2} in., and peduncles 
1-14 in. long; calyx 8 lin. long, divided almost to the base ; lobes 
linear-subulate, rarely linear ; corolla-tube narrow-cylindric, as long 
as the calyx; limb narrowed ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
10-11 lin. long, 3-4 lin. wide; anthers straight; ovary narrow- 
oblong,’ acute, 5 lin. long. Linn. Ameen. Acad. vi. 84; Sp. Pl. ed. 
2, 272; Lam. Encyel. Meth. i. 736 and Ill. Gen. t. 108, fig. 2; Pers. 
Syn. Pl. i. 282; R. Br. Prodr.i. 451. C. nudicaulis, Willd. Sp. Pl. 
i. 1066, hardly of Linn. f. OC. nudicaulis, var. elongata, Eckl. ex 
Cham. in Linnea, vi. 344; Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 99, and in 
DC. Prodr. ix. 39. C. lychnoides, E. Meyer, Comm. 177 ; Sehoch in 
Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 209, t. 15, fig. 9 (excl. syn. var. viminea) 5 
not of Berg., hardly of Linn. 
Var. 8, viminea (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 351); stems remotely leafy ; 
leaves all linear, paler green, 14-2 in. long, 14-2 lin. wide; panicle-branches, 
when present, 1-14 in. and peduncles J-4 in. long. C. lychnoides, Linn. Mantiss. 
207 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1066 (as to descr. and excl syn. Berg. and syn. Thunb.) ; 
Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 209 (as to syn, var. viminea only) ; not of 
Berg. C. nudicaulis, var. viminea, Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 99 and in DC. Prodr. 
ix. 39; Gilg ex Zahlbr. in Ann. Nat. Hist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 65. 
Var. y, multiflora (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 351); stems rather closely 
leafy throughout ; leaves all ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 14-24 in. long, 
46 lin. wide ; panicle-branches 14-24 in. and peduncles 1-1} in. long. C. cymosa, 
Burm. f. Prodr, Cap. 5 (possibly), i, nudicaulis, var, multifora, Eckl. ex Schoch 
in Bot. Centralbl, Beth, xiv. 210, 
Var. 8, tabularis (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 351); stems rather closely — 
leafy below, naked upwards ; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse to acute, =~ 
-2 in, long, 4-6 lin. wide. C. nudicaulis, Linn, f. Suppl. 151; Lam. Eneyel. 
Meth. i. 737 ; Thunb. Prodr, i. 35, in Trans. Linn, Soc. vii. 249, t. 12, fig. 33 
. Pl. i, 282; R. Br. Prodr. i. 451; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 202; 
| 75 Griseb, Gen, e Sp. Gent, 99 and in DC. Prodr, ix, 39 
