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Chironia.| GENTIANEA (Hill and Prain). 1113 
This distinct and very uniform species has been long known in European 
gardens, and is believed to have come from the Cape. There are however no 
specimens collected in South Africa in any of the herbaria examined. It is, as 
Grisebach has indicated, most nearly allied to C. maritima, but differs in calyx, in 
corolla-lobes and in baying glands at the base of the filaments. The specimens 
seen by us show that it has been grown under various names in different 
collections :; at Chelsea as C. floribunda; Goettingen as C’. maritima ; Rouen as 
C. frutescens ; St. Petersburg as C’. lychnoides ; Berlin, Edinburgh and Liibeck as 
C. Fischeri ; Kew as C. linoides and C. ixifera ; Wurzburg as C. baccifera, 
21. C. maritima (Eckl. in South Afr. Quart. Journ. i, 370, not 
of Willd.); stems distinctly angled, rooting at the nodes below, 
3-11 ft. long ; branches suberect, remotely leafy, again branched ; 
leaves narrow-spathulate or lanceolate, subacute or acute, 1-1} in. 
long, 14-24 lin. wide ; flowers solitary, terminal; peduncles 1-1} 
in. long, occasionally 1-2 added in upper axils ; calyx 5 lin. long, 
divided three-fourths to four-fifths; lobes linear, long-acuminate ; 
corolla-tube narrow-cylindric, as long as the calyx; limb slightly 
narrowed ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, 8 lin. long, 4—5 lin. wide ; 
anthers straight ; ovary narrow-ovoid, acute, 4} lin. long. Griseb. 
Gen. et Sp. Gent. 100 and in DC. Prodr. ix. 39 (excl. syn. 
C. melampyrifolia) ; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beth, xiv. 216, ¢. 16, 
fig. 5. C. lychnoides, Thunb. in Trans. Linn, Soc, vii. 252 partly ; 
not of Berg. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Reaton: Cape Div. ; Fish Hoek, Wolley Dod, 650! Vyges Kraal River, 
Wolley Dod, 2391! sandy shore near Muizenberg, Bunbury! salt meadows 
between Retreat and Muizenberg, 25 ft., Schlechter, 654! and without precise 
locality, Harvey, 610! Verreaux! Knoop, 60 partly! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Cape 
Recife, Burchell, 4384! Ecklon, 36! 641! along the coast, #.S.C.A. Herb, 291! 
Hutton ! sand hills, 50 ft., Zeyher, 793! 1199! 
A distinct and uniform species, most resembling C. scabrida, var. ligulifolia, but 
readily distinguished by its habit, its foliage and its quite different calyx. 
22. C. scabrida (Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 103); stem angled, 
suberect, leafy, 4—} ft. long; branches virgate ; leaves oblong or 
elliptic, obtuse or acute, }—} in. long, 3-4 lin. wide, scabridulous 
especially on the margins; flowers solitary, terminal ; peduncles 
4-3 in. long ; calyx 5 lin. long, divided half-way ; lobes lanceolate, 
acute, keeled ; tube keeled ; corolla-tube cylindric, longer than the 
calyx ; lobes elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 8 lin, long, 4-5 lin. : wide ; 
anthers straight ; ovary ovoid, acute, 4 lin. long. Griseb. in DC. 
Prodr. ix. 40; Schoch in But. Centralbl. Beth. xiv. 205. 
specimens only); Knobl. in Bot. Centralbl. 1x. 328 (as to C. viscosa, Zeyh. got) : 
not of Linn. C. jasméinoides. 
¢. Bei i oie , var, lychnoides, Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 102 (as to Ecklon’s plant 
only) and in DC, Prodr, ix. 40; not C. lychnoides, Berg. or Linn, C, viseosa, 
