Sebcea,] lxxxvii. gentiane.e (baker and brown). fi^T 



minute. — Annual or rarely perennial herbs, with erect or rarely procum- 

 bent branched or simple stems. Leaves opposite, se&sile oramplexiuiul. 

 Flowers small or of moderate size, yellow, arranged in terminal dicho- 

 tomous cymes. 



Species about 60, chiefly in South Africa, a few in Madagascar, India, Australia, 

 and New Zealand. 



Leaves cordate-orbicular, as broad as or broader than 

 long. 

 Stigma twice as long as broad, oblong or ovoid. 



Corolla 6-8 lin. long 1. .V. crassul(pfolia. 



Corolla 4^-5| lin. long 3. 6'. leioxtyla. 



Corolla 3-3i lin. long 6. 8. multinodis. 



Stigma much shorter than broad. 



Corolla 5-6 lin. long; stigma minute, bilobed . 2. S. oreophila. 

 Corolla about 3^ lin. long; stigma capitate, 



truncate-based . . . . . 4. »S. schimjjeriana. 



J^eaves not cordate-orbicular, longer than broad. 

 Basal leaves more or less crowded or subrosulate, 

 elliptic or oblong. 

 Anthers tipped with a waxy yellow gland . . 6. 6' affinis. 



Anthers minutely apiculate and minutely tailed . 7. iS. barbeyiana. 

 None of the leaves subrosulate. 



Leaves linear, 4-9 lin. long . , . . 8. 'S\ chironioides. 



Leaves ovate or lanceolate, 2-3 lin. long . . 9. S.- pratemis. 



Leaves subulate, 1-1^ lin. long . . . 10. iS. IVelwUschii. 



1. S. crassulsefolia, Cham, d' Schlecht. in Llniuca, i. IDo. 

 Annual, erect, |— IJ ft. high, glabrous. Stems simple or sparingly 

 branched from near the base, narrowly -l-winged. Leaves orbicular- 

 cordate, obtuse, apiculate. Cymes often in an elongate panicle, some- 

 times flat-topped, many- flowered. Flowers 5-merous. Sepals \~\ in. 

 long, 1-1| lin. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, very narrowly 

 winged on the keel. Corolla-tube 3 lin. long ; lobes 4-^) lin. long, 'l-'2j^ 

 lin. broad, spathulate-oblong, obtuse. Staminal-filaments 1-H lin. 

 long ; anthers 1 lin. long, tipped with a minute gland. Style 3 J-4 lin. 

 long, with or without a tubercular thickening near the base ; stigma 

 oblong, twice as long as broad. — Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 108, and in 

 DC. Prod. ix. 53 ; Schinz in Viertelj. Naturf. Ges. Zurich, xxxvii. ;;i'3. 



XMCozamb. Blst. Portuguese East Africa : Lukingra YiWU, Johnson ! Hritish 

 Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Zoinba Plateau, 5000 ft'., Whyiel tup of Mount 

 Zomba, Bachanan^^^Si^ ! Tuchila Plateau, 6000 ft., Partes^ 103 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



2. S* oreophila, Gilg in Engl Jahrb. xxx. 377, ?>!><, fiys. (.'-(J. 

 An erect annual up to \h ft. high; stems acutely quadningular, 

 branched above. Leaves distant, amplexicaul, cordate-opl)ic'ular, \-\ 

 in. long and equally broad, minutely apiculate. Inflorescence a very 

 compound panicle, with cymose branches; cymes :>-lU-flo\vered, rather 

 dense; pedicels short ; bracts minute, oblong or lanceolate. Sepals .», 

 ovate-lanceolate, very acute, \ in. long, narrowly wing-keeled. Corolla - 

 tube as long as the calyx ; lobes 5, oblanceolate, obtuse, as long as tlie 



