Faroa.| GENTIANE® (Hill and Prain). 1119 
Disrris. Species about 90, rather more than one-third Tropical African, a few 
in Madagascar and in Europe, the greater number Asiatic. 
1, 8. stellarioides (Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 225) ; annual ; stem 5—1 ft. 
high, simple or branching above ; branches ascending, corymbose ; 
leaves glabrous, radical lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed to a short 
petiole, 1—3 in. long, 14-2 lin. wide, cauline linear-lanceolate to 
linear, obtuse or subacute, }—-1 in. long, 3-2 lin. wide; flowers 
5-merous, in simple or panicled subumbellately 3—8-flowered cymes ; 
pedicels }—1 in. long ; outer two calyx-lobes larger than the others, 
all lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 13-3} lin. long, }—§ lin. 
wide ; corolla-lobes oblong-obovate, obtuse, 35-5 lin. long, 13-1} 
lin. wide, white streaked with purple within, basal nectaries paired, 
oblong, ciliate ; stamens 2 lin. long ; ovary oblong, hardly narrowed 
to the very broad obtuse sessile 2-lobed stigma which is broader 
than long; valves of capsule obtuse. Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 711; Baker & N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl.. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 581. 
S. Welwitschii, Engl. Hochgebirgsf. Trop. Afr. 339; Gilg in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxvi. 110. Adenopogon stellarioides, Welw. Syn. Explic. 27. 
Karanari Reaioy : Orange River Colony ; marshes near Harrismith, 7000 ft., 
Sankey, 68 ! Transvaal, in marshy places ; Donkershoek, Rehmann, 6529 ! Hout- 
bosch Berg, 6500 ft., Schlechter, 4699! near Lydenberg, Wilms, 967 | Lomatie 
Valley, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1228 ! : 
Eastern Rearon: Natal; damp places near Van Reenen, 7500 ft., Schlechter, 
6991! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
VIII. VILLARSIA, Vent. 
Calya deeply 5-lobed ; tube short, campanulate. Corolla 5-lobed ; 
tube short ; lobes spreading, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 5, adnate 
to the corolla-tube ; filaments filiform; anthers linear, sagittate, 
versatile. Ovary surrounded by 5 minute hypogynous glands, 
l-celled ; placentas parietal, thickened ; ovules usually numerous ; 
style short or long; stigma 2-lobed ; lobes usually rather large. 
Capsule subglobose, opening by 4 apical valves. Seeds few or 
numerous ; testa crustaceous, smooth and shining, or muriculate, or 
hispidulous. 
: r ine; stems simple with leaves reduced and seale-like or 
siesta Reseorn eran a few sales leaves ; radical leaves long-stalked, entire 
or sinuately toothed ; flowers white or yellow, cymose ; cymes sometimes paniculate. 
Disrris, Species about 10 ; all save the one here described Australian. 
1. V. ovata (Vent. Choix, 9, t. 9); tufted, usually partly sub- 
merged ; rootstock long, usually stout, creeping ; leaves coriaceous, 
mostly radical, 3-12 in. long ; blade ovate, base rounded or truncate 
very rarely cuneate or subcordate, obtuse, entire, 1-3 in. long, 3-2} 
in. ‘wide; petiole stout, sheathing at the base ; stem scapiform, — 
central, usually branched, 3 in.-1} ft. long ; cauline leaves short- 
