1116 GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain). [ Chironia. 
includes, however, two easily recognisable forms :—(1) with linear leaves up to 
lin. long ; (2) with narrow-elliptic leaves, $ in. long. The former is var. linearis as 
limited by Schoch and is the plant distributed but not described as C. jasminoides, 
Thunb., not of Linn. The latter is the plant described and figured by Lamarck 
as C', uniflora, and is the plant originally intended by Grisebach as his var. 
brevifolia, Tt is to this form that Schoch has restricted, in intention, the name 
C. tetrayona ; the original C. tetragona, Linn. f., is however, the form which 
Meyer and Schoch have termed var. ovata, These various forms are connected by 
intermediates, and C. tetragona as a whole is perhaps too closely related to 
(, tabularis ; some of Schoch’s specimens, quoted under C. tetragona, belong to 
C. tabularis. 
25. C. melampyrifolia (Lam. Ill. Gen. i. 479); stem distinctly 
angled, decumbent or scandent, leafy, 5-6 ft. long; branches 
divaricate ; leaves lanceolate or ovate, base cordate, subamplexicaul, 
acuminate at the revolute tip, }—-1 in. long, 2-6 lin. wide ; flowers 
solitary, ‘terminal; peduncles ?-2 in. long ; calyx 4 lin. long, 
divided half-way ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled ; tube 
keeled ; corolla-tube cylindric, rather longer than the calyx ; lobes 
ovate-oblong or oblong, subacute or acute, 9-12 lin. long, 4-6 lin. 
wide; anthers straight; ovary ovate-oblong, acute, 5 lin. long. 
Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 282; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii. 233 ; Roem. and 
Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 201. C. lychnoides, Lam. Encyel. i. 736 ; not 
of Berg. C. jasminoides, Thunb. Prodr. i. 35, in Trans, Linn. Soe. 
vii. 251, and FV. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 109 (as to descr. wholly, and as to sheet a 
in Herb. propr.); Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1066; Griseb. Gen. et Sp. 
Gent. 101 and in DC. Prodr. ix. 40 (as to Krebs’ and Willdenow’s 
plant cited, but exel. descr.) ; not of Linn. C. perfoliata, Eckl. in 
South Afr. Quart. Journ. i. 370; Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 104 
and in DC. Prodr. ix. 40; Gilg in Ann. Nat. Hist. Hof mus. 
Wien, xv. 65 and in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, 785 
Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beth. xiv. 205; not of Salish. C. speciosa, 
st Meyer, Comm. 178. C. glutinosa, Paxt. Mag. Bot. xv. 245, with 
ate. 
SourH AFRIcA : without locality ; Oldenburg! Burmann | Commerson | Sonnerat ! 
pe Mund and Maire, 261! Scholl! Krebs, 231! Fleuron (Herb. Willdenow, 
500) ! 
Coast Recon: Caledon Div; near Caledon, Prior! Swellendym Div. ; 
Tradouw Berg, Bowie, 4! and without precise locality, Thunberg | Riversdale 
Div. ; without precise locality, Rust, 314! Mossel Bay Div. ; Robinson Pass, 
2500 ft., Bolus! George Div.; between Touw River and Kaymans River, 
Burchell, 5772! ner George, Prior! Bolus, 12996! hills near Silver River, 
Schlechter, 5869! Penther, 2026! Montagu Pass, Rehmann, 267! Penther, 2027 ' 
between George and Knysna, Pappe! and without precise locality, Bowe, 3! 
Knysna Div. ; mountains near Plettenbergs Bay, Bove, 4! and near the Great 
Forest, Castelnau, 583! Bolus, 1921! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, 
Burchell, 4710! Zeyher, 193! Eeklon, 488! 634! Zuur Berg Range, 1500- 
2000 ft., Dréye! Port Elizabeth Div.; Algoa Bay, Forbes, 80! 91! Prior! 
near Port Elizabeth, £.S.C.4. Herb. 446! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, 
Bolton! MacOwan, 71! Schinland, 130 Zeyher, 1981-3480! Scott Eliot, 786! 
Galpin, 173! Hutton | Williamson ! 
A very distinct species which will probably still be maintained even if it be oe 
found necessary to unite C. teragona, C, tabularis and C. scabrida. In the 
