Sebcea.] lxxxvii. gentiane^ (baker and brown). 541) 



internodes ^-Ih in. long, narrowly 4-winged. Leaves sessile, J-A- 

 in. long and broad, orbicular-cordate, obtuse or minutely apiculate. 

 Inflorescence of each main stem elongate ; branches not all reaching to 

 the same level ; cymes dense, compact, subcapitate, many-flowered, 

 their main branches i-§ in. long; pedicels J-IJ lin. long, i'lowers :>- 

 Jiierous. Sepals green, 2-2-^- lin. long, j-jf lin. broad, lanceolate or 

 oblong, acute ; keel narrowly winged ; corolla yellow; tube l|-2 lin. 

 long; lobes 1|-U lin. long, §-f lin. broad, elliptic-oblong or spathu- 

 late-obovate, obtuse, minutely apiculate, erect at the basal part, 

 spreading above the middle ; stamens exserted ; filaments ^-h lin. long ; 

 anthers J lin. long, straight, oblong, tipped with a minute gland.' 

 Style J-1 lin. long, with or without a slight tubercular thickenin^^ : 

 stigma compressed-ovoid, narrowed into the style, twice as long as 

 broad. — S. hrachyphylla, Hook. fil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. IG, and vii. 

 206 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. ;335, partly; Schinz in Viertelj. 

 Naturforsch. Ges. Zurich, xxxvii. 32G, partly; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxvi. 100, partly; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 705, not of Grise- 

 bach. 



Upper G-uinea. Canieroons : Cameroon Mountain, 7000-8500 ft., Mnnn, 

 1239! 1983! Johnston,S\ Fretu-s, 633a, 633b (ex Gil^) \ Fernando Po: Clarence 

 Peak, 8500-10,000 ft., Mann, 320! 598! 



N-ile I.and. Uganda: Kuwenzori, 5000-6000 ft., Scott- Elliot, 7685 I British 

 East Africa ; Mbaruk Stream, above 6000 ft., Lake Elmeteita, Scott-Elliot, 6758 ! 

 Ukiimba, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-ElHot, 6444! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Huilla ; near Lopollo, 45C0»-5500 ft, Welioifsch, 

 1520 ! 



XMCozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ;. Marangu, 8800 ft., 

 Volkens, 1114 ! 861 (ex Gilg), Schneequelle, 12,900 ft., Meyer, 102 (ex Oilj). 



This couspicnously differs from S. b-rachyphylla, Griseb., in having more 

 numerous and muili shorter internodes, much denser cymes, with very much sliorter 

 brandies and more numerous flowers. 



6. S. affinis, Welio. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 70G. An 

 erect annual 8-12 in. high ; stems slender, narrowly 4- winged. 

 Radical leaves rosulate, broadly elliptic, obtuse ; stem leaves ses.sile, 

 ovate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, somewhat narrowed at the ba.se. 

 Panicle laxly corymbose ; pedicels short, unequal. Flowers o-merous. 

 Sepals J-l in. long, acutely keeled, obtusely acuminate, with bioad 

 white membranous edges. Corolla \-'^ in. long ; tube rather inHated ; 

 lobes ovate-acuminate. Stamens exserted ; filaments very slioit ; 

 anthers obtusely sagittate at the base, tipped with a gland. Style 

 short ; stigma longer than the style, subprismatic-clavate. 



Ziover Guinea. Angola: Mossamedcs ; by tlie River Bero, near Cavalboiros, 

 only one specimen seen, Welwitsch, 1519. 



7. S. barbeyiana, Schinz in Viertelj. Naturf. GeseU. Zurich, 

 xxxvii. 32G. An erect annual 3-7 in. high, glabrous in all its parts ; 



