548 Lxxxvii. GENTiANE.E (bakek AND brown). [Scbcea. 



tube. Stamens half as long as the corolla-lobes; filaments longer than 

 the anthers, which are tipped with a gland. Style 3 lin. long, slender, 

 with a tubercular thickening ; stigma minute, subcapitate, bilobed. 



IKEozaxnb. Slst. German East Africa: in shady meadows on the borders of the 

 forest, Kin}ika Mountiins, Kinga (Livingstone) Range, 8500 ft., Goetze, 945! 



3. S. leiostyla, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxvi. 07. An erect annual 

 1-2 ft. high, branching from about the middle ; branches erect. Leaves 

 dibtant, cordate-orbicular, minutely apiculate. Flowers 5-merous, in 

 dense terminal cymes. Sepals 2J-o lin. long, J-1 lin. broad, oblong 

 and mucronate, or narrowly oblong-lanceolate and acuminate, narrowly 

 wing-keeled. Corolla-tube 2-2J lin. long; lobes 2i-2| lin. long, 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse. Staminal-filaments ^-1 lin. long ; anthers 

 linear, tipped with a gland. Style 2|-3 lin. long, with or without a 

 tubercular thickening near its base; stigma oblong, laterally com- 

 pressed. 



Mozaxub. Sist. Britisli Central Africa : Nyasalsmd ; North Nyasa, Whyte I 

 Sliire Highlands, Buchanan, 2081 near Blantyie, Last ! and without precise locality, 

 Buchanan, 200 ! 270. 



The styles are either smooth or with tubercles in different flowers from the same 

 cyme. 



4. S. schimperiana. Bucking, ex Schiveinf. Beitr. Fl. Aelhiop. 127. 

 Annual, erect, 8-12 in. high, glabrous ; stem simple or branching at 

 the base, narrowly 4-winged ; internodes J-| in. long. Leaves 1^-3 

 lin. long, 2-3|- lin. broad, sessile, reniform or cordate-orbicular, obtuse, 

 apiculate. Cyme terminal, moderately compact, its main branches |-J 

 in. long, several-flowered. Flowers 5-merous ; pedicels 0-1 lin. long; 

 sepals 2-2}^ lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong, acute, very thin and 

 membranous; keel narrowly winged ; corolla-tube about 2 lin. long; 

 lobes 1| lin. long, |-| lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, apparently slightly 

 concave ; stamens exserted ; filaments J-J lin. long ; anthers J lin. long, 

 oblong, tipped with a minute gland at the apex, becoming recurved ; 

 style f-1 lin. long, with a tubercular thickening below the middle ; 

 stigma capitate, hemispherical, truncate at the base, slightly bilobed, 

 much shorter than broad. — *S'. crassulifolia, var. hreviflora, Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 127. • S. hrachypliylla, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 

 Afr. 335, partly ; Schinz in Yiertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Zurich, xxxvii. 

 32C, partly ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 100, partly, not of Grise- 

 bach. 



Urile Iiand. Abyssinia : Samen ; Mount Eachit, 11,000 ft., Schimper, 151 

 (ex Schioeinfurth) ; Begemeder ; Mount Gunii, 10,800 ft., Schiynper^ 1459! 



Tills plant differs from S. multinodis, X. E. Br., and 5. hrachyphyUa, Griseb., 

 with which it Inis hitlierto been confused, in its mc.re membranous and broader 

 sepals, recurved anthers, more slender style and truncate-based stigma. 



5. S, multinodis, X. E. Br. An erect glabrous annual -J-2 ft. 

 high, usually branching at or near the base j stems with numerous 



