.056 Lxxxvii. GKNTiANE^ (baker AND brown). [Chi?'onia. 



Mozamb. I>ist. Kliodesia: Umtali, in marshy ground, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn 

 Cecil, 162 ! Leshuino Valley, south of the Zambesi, Uolub 1 

 Also in South Africa, 



5. C. angolensiSy Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxvi. 104. A glabrous 

 perennial. Rootstock woody, producing 2-5 stems 2-4|^ ft. high, 

 simple below, branched above, narrowly 4-v7inged. Leaves 2-3 in. long, 

 J-J in. broad, lanceolate to linea-r, acute or acuminate, 3-nerved, 

 spreading, bright green. Panicle about 1 ft. long and 9-10 in. broad, 

 lax ; branches widely spreading, trichotomously 3-0-flowered ; pedicels 

 f-lf in. long. Sepals 5, narrowly lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, J— J 

 in. long, l-lj lin. broad at the base, glaucescent-green. Corolla bright 

 rose-pink; tube J in. long; lobes |-| in. long, \-\ in. broad, lanceo- 

 late, very acute. Stamens 5 ; filaments 2 lin. long, slightly dilated at 

 the base, inserted about 1 lin. below the corolla-sinuses ; anthers 3^ lin. 

 long, oblong, spirally twisted, rugose, yellow. Style 4^-5 lin. long ; 

 stigma 1-1 f lin. long, oblong, shortly bilobed at the apex. — Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 709. 



IiO'wer Guinea* Angola : Huilla ; rocky slopes of the Chella Mountains, 

 4000 ft., not far from Muuipulla, Welioitsch, 1526 ! Chella Mountains, Johnston ! 



G, C. laxiflora. Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 25. Stem long, 

 slender, 4-angled. Leaves distant, ovate, acute, J-1 in. long. Inflor- 

 escence a very lax panicle ; branches widely spreading, cymosely 2-7- 

 flowered ; pedicels -J-lJ in. long. Calyx \-^ in. long ; segments 5, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate. Corolla pale pink ; tube shorter than the calyx ; lobes 

 5, lanceolate, 5-7 lin. long. Anthers much twisted, ^-\ in. long. Style 

 curved. Fruit capsular, as long as the calyx. — C. ruhrocoeridea, Gilg in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 379. 



l^ozamb. Sist. German East Africa: Usufiia; hanks of streams on the 

 lower slopes of the Poroto Mountains, 5900 It., Goetze, 104-9 (ex Gilg). British 

 Central Africa: Xyasaland; Manganja Hills, 3000 ft. Meller ! near Sochi Hill, 

 Kirk ! hetween Kondowe and Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyie ! Nyika I'lateau, 

 6000-7000 ft., Whyte, 141 ! Urunga"; Fwambo, 5200 ft., Nult ! 



5. ERYTHEMA, L. C. Rich. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 809. 



Calyx tubular, shortly 5-cleft. Corolla-tube long or short ; lobes 

 5, rarely 4, spreading, contorted. Stamens inserted in the corolla- 

 tube; filaments filiform ; anthers twisted. Ovary 1-celled ; placentas much 

 inflexed ; style subulate ; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule oblong, septicidally 

 2-valved. Seeds numerous, minute, foveolate. — Annual or perennial 

 herbs. Leaves sessile or amplexicau I. Flowers in terminal dichotomous 

 cymes, usually red. 



Species nmnerou=, principally iidiahiting the north temperate zone, but extending 

 to Australia and Chili. 



1. E. ramosissima, Pers. ; Griseb. in DC. Prod. ix. 57. Stems 

 erect, usually much branched, i-1^ ft. long. Leaves in many pairs, oblong 

 or lanceolate, J-1 in. long. Cymes few- or many-flowered, with single 



