Chironia. | GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain). 1111 
Schoch in Bot. Centralbl.- Beith. xiv. 200, t. 16, fig. 3. C. nudicaulis, var. 
tabularis, Cham. in Linnea, vi. 344 (not C. tabularis, Page).  €@. jasminoides, 
Bureh, Trav. i. 46. 
Sourn AFRICA: without locality, Oldenland! Burmann! Forster! Harvey! 
Verreaux | Jacquin (Herb. Willdenow, 4501) ! 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div.; Mosterts Berg, 2200 ft., Bolus, 5024! 
Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 2500-3500 ft., Drége, 1896! Paarl Div. ; French 
Hoek, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 9262! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Swartz! Bergius ! 
Sonnerat! Rouburgh! Ecklon, 175! Brown! Spielhaus! Wallich! Barnard 
Fuller! Sweet Valley Flats, Wallich! south of Constantia Berg, Wolley Dod, 
2097! Simons Bay, Prior! near Simons Town, Milne, 150! Smitswinkel 
Stream, Wolley Dod, 2683! Swellendam Div. ; Voormans Bosch, near Swellen- 
dam, Zeyher, 3429 partly! George Div. ; mountains and borders of the forest, 
Bowie, 8! Var. B: Caledon Div.; Klein River Berg, Ecklon, 638 ! Zwart Berg, 
Ecklon, 528! Zoetemelks Valley, Wallich! Swellendam Div.; Buffeljagts River, 
Penther, 2021! River-dale Div. ; Garcias Pass, 2500 ft., Galpin, 4341! Var. y: 
Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland mountains, Prior! Swellendam Div. ; 
Tradouw Berg, Bowie, 7! Voormans Bosch, near Swellendam, Zeyher, 3429 partly ! 
Ecklon, 639! Riversdale Div.; upper part of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7061! 
7128! Var.8: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, 2600-3500 ft., Oldenburg! Bur- 
mann! Sonnerat ! Osbeck! Thunberg | Burchell, 547! Spielhaus! Bergius! Drege, 
7823! Harvey! Bolus, 4539! Rehmann, 757! Schlechter, 295! Boos! Scholl! 
Penther, 2017! Knoop, 60 partly! Wynberg, Mund and Maire! Ecklon, 174. 
Ecklon enumerates C. nudicaulis among the plants found in the Uitenhage 
district (South Afr. Quart. Journ. i. 370). C. nudicaulis, Eckl., includes all the 
varieties defined above, and therefore is equivalent to C. jasminoides, Linn., as a 
whole. There are, however, no specimens of any variety of C. jasminoides from 
Uitenhage in the collections examined ; the locality is therefore somewhat 
doubtful, 
An extremely variable species as regards foliage, but remarkably uniform as 
regards flowers and fruit. The varieties here distinguished pass gradually one 
into the others. ; ‘i 
18. C. serpyllifolia (Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1828, 16) ; 
stems slightly angled, leafy, much-branched, }~1 ft. long; branches 
virgate ; leaves ovate, obtuse or subacute, } in. long, 24 lin. wide ; 
flowers 2-3, or solitary, terminal ; peduncles }-j in. long ; calyx 
21 lin. long, divided three-fourths ; lobes linear-subulate ; corolla- 
tube narrow-cylindric, longer than the calyx; limb narrowed ; 
lobes ovatelanceolate, subacuminate, 4 lin. long, 1} lin. wide ; 
anthers straight ; ovary narrow-oblong, acute, 3 lin. long. Lehm. 
in Linnea, v. 373; Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 106 and in DC. Prodr. ix. 
41; Gilg in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, 78 ; Schoch in Bot. 
Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 191 partly. C. parvifolia, E. Meyer, Comm. 
178 partly. C. ovata, Spreng. ex Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 41. 
Var. B, laxa (Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 106) ; leaves narrow-ovate, obtuse or : 
subacute, $ in. long, 14 lin. wide, rather more distant ; corolla-lobes lanceolate, 
acuminate. Griseb. in DU. Prodr. ix. 41; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 192 
partly. C. parvifolia, E, Meyer, Comm. 178 partly. 
Van. y, microphylla (Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 106); leaves ovate, acute or 
ahaa in. long, under 1 lin. wide ; corolla-lobes lanceol: , acuminate. 
_— Griseb. oot Prodr. ix. 41; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 192. C. ser- 
- pyllifolia, Eckl. in South Afr, Quart, Journ, i, 371, hardly of Iehm. C. parvifolia, 
E, Meyer, Comm. 178 partly. a 
