S^csa.] 



LXXXVII. GENTIANEit: (bAKER AND BBOWN), 



551 



Xaower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; i)arasitlcal on prrasses and Ci/peracea, in 

 swampy places alonj? the River Monino, Welwitsch, 1521, and alorj-; tlic River 

 Humpata, WehcUscK 1522 ! 



Very near the Himalayan S. kJiasiana, C. R. Clarke in Journ. Linn Soc xiv 

 438. 



3. BELMONTIA, E. 



Meyer; Benth. et Hook. f. Oen. 

 PI ii. H04. 



Fl. Tt 



rs (1836). 



Calyx cleft nearly or quite to the base ; segments 4-5, ovate or 

 lanceolate, more or less winged on the keel. Corolla- tube longer 

 than the calyx, funnel-shaped or cylindric ; segments 4-5, spreading. 

 Stamens 4-5, included in the corolJa-tube ; filaments short ; anthers 

 oblong or linear, with a gland at the tip and often also two at the 

 base. Ovary globose, 2-celled ; placentas axile ; ovules many in a cell ; 

 style subulate ; stigma oblong. Capsule globose, membranous, 

 septicidally 2-valved. Seeds many, minute. — Annual or rarely 

 perennial erect herbs. Leaves opposite, sessile. Flowers solitary or in 

 terminal dichotomous cymes. 



Species ahont 20, of which 2 are natives of Madagascar, the others in South 

 Africa. 



A slightly-earlier name for the genns is Parasia, Rafin. 

 Corolhi-lohes yV-^ in. long. 



Keel of sepals narrowly winged. 



Leaves linear ..... 

 Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. 

 Leaves ^-1$ lin, long . 

 Leaves 1^,-3 lin. long . 

 Leaves ^, in. long .... 

 Leaves ovate .... 

 Keel of sepals hi*o;idly winged 

 Corolla-lobes \-h in. long. 



Corolla-tnbe funnel-shaped in the n})per half. 

 Plant 1-3 in. high . 

 Plant 3-15 in. liigli . 

 Corolla-tnhe cylindrical, very ^hnder. 

 Calyx ^-'i in. long . 

 Calyx ^-f in. long . 



1. B. gracilis, Welw. in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvii. 47. Stems very 

 slender, erect, 4-0 in. long, simple or once forked, 4-anoled. l>eaves 

 in 2-4 pairs, linear, ascending, J-1 in. long. Flowers solitary, erect or 

 nodding; pedicels |-3 in. long. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acuniinate, J- \ 

 in. long, pallid, with a narrowly-winged green keel. Corolla-tube not 

 longer than the calyx, narrowly funnel-shaped in the upper half; lobes 

 5, oblong, yV in. long. Stamens inserted at the middle of th»» tulx'. 

 Schinz in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, xxxvii. (ISDl) :;;'.;{; Kngl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. ;^>o(;. Parasia gracilis, Uiein in Cat. A fr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 70S. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Hnilla ; snh]iarasitic, in spongy places in wihxI .1 

 parts ot the northern region of the River Monino, Welwitsch, 1524! 



