T112 | GENTIANE (Hill and Prain). ‘[Chironia. 
SoutH Arrica : without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Rucion; Uitenhage Div.; near the Zwartkops River, below 100 ft., 
Drege, 2237 ! Zeyher, 165! 204! and without precise locality, Verreaux ! Bathurst 
Div.; Port Alfred, Atherstone, 240! South! Var. 8: Uitenhage Div. ; near the 
Zwartkops River, 100 ft., Zeyher, 3431! Ecklon, 648! and without precise 
locality, Verreauz! Var. y: Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, 1000-1500 ft., 
Drége! between Krakakamma and Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher! Ecklon, 48! 649 ! 
The varieties distinguished by Grisebach hardly deserve recognition on morpholo- 
gical grounds ; var. B has all the appearance of a form of the typical plant growing 
among grass ; var. that of a form growing in poor soil. The fruit has been stated 
by Schoch (i.c. p. 186) to be a berry ; it is, however, a 2-valved capsule, like that 
of C. laxa, Gilg. 
19. C. laxa (Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 105); stems slightly 
angled, leafy, much-branched, 1-1} ft. long ; branches ascending or 
spreading ; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, }-1 in. long, 1-1} lin. 
wide ; flowers 2-3, or solitary, terminal ; peduncles }—1} in. long ; 
calyx 3 lin. long, divided three-fourths; lobes linear-subulate ; 
corolla-tube narrow-cylindric, longer than the calyx; limb 
narrowed ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, 5-6 lin. long, 
2-2) lin. wide; anthers straight; ovary narrow-oblong, acute, 
3 lin. long. C. melampyrifolia, E. Meyer, Comm. 177 ; Schoch in 
Bot. Centralbl. Beth. xiv. 208; not of Lam. C. maritima, Griseb. 
in DO. Prodr. ix. 39 (as to syn, E. Meyer only); not of Eek. 
C. Schlechteri, Schoch in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™° sér. ii, 1010 and in 
Bot. Centralbl. Beth. xiv. 214. 
Coast Rreton : Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, Flanagan, 12! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei ; near the Bashee River, 2800 ft., Schlechter, 6282! 
near Butterworth, 2000 ft., Bolus, 10228 ! Tembuland ; banks of the Umtata River, 
400 ft., Drege, 4924! Griqualand East ; Shawbury, 2000 ft., Baur, 229! 
Nearly allied to C. serpyllifolia, Lehm., and only distinguished by its longer 
leaves and larger size. The two are related to each other much as C. rosacea, 
Gilg, and C. transvaalensis, Gilg, are related, an | it may be found, as the result of 
further field study, that they can only be distingnished as varieties. There is no 
character by which to separate C’. Schlechter, Schoch, based on Schlechter 6282, 
from C’. axa proper, based on Baur 229. 
20. C. floribunda (Paxt. Mag. Bot. xi, 237); stems faintly 
angled, leafy, diffusely branched, 1-2 ft. long; leaves narrow- 
_spathulate or lanceolate, acute, 3-1 in. long, 2-3 lin. wide ; flowers 
solitary, terminal; peduncles $-14 in. long; calyx 3 lin. long, 
_ divided three-fourths ; lobes narrow-elliptic, acute ; corolla-tube 
_ narrow-cylindric, as long as the calyx; limb narrowed ; lobes 
obovate, obtuse, 5 lin. long, 4 lin, wide ; anthers straight ; ovary 
ovoid, acute, 3} lin. long. Paat. Mag. Bot. xii. 123, with plate ; 
Belg. Hortic. 1860, 65, with plate ; Rev. Hortic. Belg. 1907, 3, with 
plate. C. Fischeri, Hort. Rolliss. ea Paxt. in Mag. Bot. xi. 237 and 
xii, 123; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 215. ©. maritima, — 
1 frutescens, Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 39. ee 
