Py<ynosphiera.] lxxxvii. gentiane^ (baker and brown). nCo 



leaves in several distant pairs, J-1 in. long, J-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, 

 erect. Corymb of 8 (or more ?) branches, each terminated by a head 

 J- J in. in diam., composed of 3 crowded smaller heads. Bracts 2-lh 

 lin. long, 1 J lin. broad, cuneate-oblong orobovate-oblong, obtuse, abruptly 

 apiculate, keeled, embracing the flowers. Lateral sepals li-l| liu. 

 long, J lin broad, narrowly boat-shaped, acute, keeled ; dorsal sepal }i-'i 

 lin. long, \-\ lin. broad, flat, rigidly membranous, oblong or oblong- 

 obovate, obtuse or obscurely :5-lobulate. Corolla blue; tube 1-1 if lin. 

 long; lobes 1 J lin. long, about ^ -lin. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse, suberect, 

 not spreading. Stamens finally longer than the corolla-lobes, H-1 3 lin. 

 long; anthers minutely apiculate. Ovary oblong; style 1 lin. long; 

 stigmas f lin. long, erect. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola: Amboella ; by the River Kuito, below tlie KivtT 

 Kutue, 3900 ft., Baum, 752 ! 



2. P. Buchanani, X. E. Br. Plant probably 2 ft. or more 

 high, glabrous. Stem terete, with 2 closely placed slightlv 

 elevated lines decurrent from the base of the leaf-pairs on each 

 side, apparently simple below, branching in the flowering part only ; 

 branches erect, H-5 in. long, forming an elongate paniculate inflor- 

 escence 6-12 in. or more long and 2-3 in. broad. Lower leaves not seen ; 

 stem leaves in distant pairs, |-2 in. long, ^-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, 

 erect or ascending. Flowers sessile or subsessile in small dense ovoid 

 heads, 3 of which are crowded together in larger heads about i in. in 

 diam. at the end of each of the short corymbosely arranged branchlets. 

 Bracts 2 lin. long, 1-1 J lin. broad, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, abruptly 

 apiculate, complicate and embracing the flowers. Lateral sepals 1 J lin. 

 long, \ lin. broad, narrowly boat-shaped, acute, keeled ; dorsal sepal .V-)^ 

 lin. long, \-\ lin. broad, flat, membranous, oblong, very obtusely and 

 unequally subbilobulateor obliquely emarginate at the apex. Corolla- 

 tube IJ- lin. long ; lobes 1^ lin. long, h lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, spreading. Stamens finally about as long as the corolla-lubes ; 

 anthers very minutely apiculate. Ovary oblong; style \\ lin. long; 

 stigmas ^ lin. long, linear, suberect. — Faroa Buchanani, Baker in Kew 

 Bulletin," 181)4, 26. 



XMEozaxnb. Dist. British Central Africa: Xyasalaiid, Buchanan, 11331 



11. FAROA, Welw. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. SOC. 



Calyx-tube short, campanulate ; lobes 4, acute or obtuse. Corolla- 

 tube about as long as or shorter than the calyx, with 4 small scales at 

 the mouth ; lobes 4, spreading. Stamens 4, inserted at the mouth of 

 the corolla-tube ; filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, minute. Ovary 

 1-celled; placentas slightly intruded; ovules numerous ; style straight, 

 subulate; stigma simple or 2-lobed. Capsule subglobose, septicidally 

 2-valved. Seeds minute, subglobose, foveolate. — Annual or rarely |>eren- 

 nial branched herbs. Leaves sessile, broad or narrow. Flowers minut-e, 

 arranged in dense terminal or axillary clusters. 



Species 9, endemic to Tropical and South Africa. 

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