Chironia.| GENTIANE& (Hill and Prain). 1117 
by Thunberg and cited by Grisebach (Arebs, 231) as C. jasminoides, and is also 
the plant described by Ecklon as C. perfoliata, dries to a pale brown or straw- 
colour ; the other, which is C. melampyrifolia, Lam., also C. speciosa, E. Meyer, 
and C. glutinosa, Paxt., dries blackish. There is, however, no morphological 
character by which the two can be distinguished ; both vary equally as regards 
width of leaf. 
V. ENICOSTEMA, Blume. 
Calyaz 5-toothed ; tube campanulate ; teeth lanceolate. Corolla 
5-lobed ; tube elongate, lower-half cylindric, upper narrowly funnel- 
shaped ; lobes small, lanceolate. Stamens 5, inserted at the middle 
of the corolla-tube ; filaments filiform, with a small double-hooded 
scale at the base; anthers erect, straight, acute. Ovary 1-celled ; 
placentas little intruded ; ovules numerous ; style short, subulate, 
stigma capitate. Capsule oblong, septicidal; valves 2. Seeds 
numerous, globose, foveolate. 
Erect perennial herbs ; leaves numerous, opposite ; flowers numerous, small, in 
axillary clusters. 
Distr. Species 4, one each in Tropical America, Tropical Africa and 
Madagascar with the following which extends to Tropical Africa and Asia. 
1. E. littorale (Blume, Bijdr. 848) ; stem branching from the 
base, glabrous, 4—18 in. high ; leaves glabrous, in many pairs, sessile, 
linear or lanceolate, usually acute, occasionally in the lower half of 
the stem oblong, sometimes obtuse, or rarely obovate retuse, }-3 in. 
long, 14—4 lin. wide ; flowers in sessile axillary clusters throughout 
the stem ; calyx-tube } lin. long; lobes 3~1 lin. long, } lin. wide, 
ovate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, slightly spreading at 
the tips, imbricate or valvate at the base, with narrowish submem- 
branous margins ; corolla-tube 2} lin. long; lobes 1-1} lin. long ; 
style slightly thickened upwards. Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 66 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 101; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 
Bot. 271; Baker & N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 563. 
E. verticillare, Baill. Hist. Pl. x. 131 partly. E. verticillatum, 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 313 partly; Knobl. in Bot. Centralbl. 1x. 
333. Gentiana verticillata, Linn. f. Suppl. 174, not of Linn. 
G. verticillaris, Retz. Obs. ii. 15. Slevogtia orientalis, Griseb. in DC. 
Prodr. ix. 65. Hippion hyssopifolium, Spreng. Syst. i. 589; Griseb. 
Gen. et Sp. Gent. 134. H. verticillatum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 
428; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 711 partly, perhaps not of 
F. W. Schnidt.—Centaurion angustifolium, floribus ex alis sessilibus, 
Burm. Rar. Afr. Pl. 206, t. 74, fig. 3. 
Kananart Recion: Transvaal ; Boshveld, Klippan, Rehmann, 5280! in grassy 
plains near Pietersburg, 4000 ft., Bolus, 10865! Naboomfontein, 4300 ft., 
Schlechter, 4306! near Barberton, 2900 ft., Thorneroft, 400 (Herb. Wood, 4503) ! 
Thorncroft, 3026! 
Eastern RuGion : Delagoa Bay ; Matolla, 30 ft., Schlechter, 11697! 
