■Sivertia.] lxxxvii. GENTiANEiE (baker and brown). 575 



8. S. Engleri, Gilg in Engl Jahrb. xxvi. 108. Perennial, f.-S in. 

 high ; stems many to a root, curved at the base. Radicid and lower 

 stem-leaves oblong-lanceolate or subspathulate, obtuse or subacute, 

 narrowed into a long petiole; upper stem-leaves sessile, ^-}t in. long, 

 IJ-o lin. broad, oblong, obtuse or subacute. Cymes few-flowered, 

 terminal and also from the axils of the upper leaves ; flowers o-merous. 

 Calyx 2J-3 lin. long; lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse or subacute. 

 Coiolla-lobes about 5-6 lin. long, U-2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, 

 with a pair of fimbriate nectaries near the base, yellow, with a dark 

 bluish-green stripe down the back. Stamens J in. long. Ovary ovate- 

 lanceolate, tapering up to the sessile 2-lobed stigma. — *S'. pumila^ 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 338, partly, S. malticaulis, Engl, ex 

 Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 88, not of Don. 



Wile Iiand. Abvssinia : Begemeder ; M(miit Guna, 4200 ft., Schimper, 



1543 : 



9. S. pumila, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, '2S. Perennial U-3 in. 

 high. Stem solitary. E-adical leaves rosulate, 3-7 lin. long, lf-2 lin. 

 broad, petiolate or spathulate, with an oblong or ov^ate-obtuse" blade ; 

 stem-leaves 1-2 pairs at the top of the stem, 2-3 lin. long, 1-U lin. 

 broad, sessile, ovate or oblong, obtuse. Cyme simple and 3-flowered 

 or with 1 or a pair of short 1-3-flowered branches ; flowers 5-merous ; 

 pedicels 1-6 lin. long. Sepals about ^ in. long, linear to narrowly spathu- 

 late-oblong, obtuse. Corolla white with a dark (bluish ex Ilochstetter) 

 median stripe; lobes 2J-3 lin. long, Ij-lj lin. broad, elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse, with 2 small nearly circular fringed nectaries near the base. 

 Stamens 2 lin. long. Ovary ovoid ; stigma sessile, its lobes longer 

 than broad, ovate, obtuse. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. bb ; 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 128; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 538, partly. 



xrile Iiand. Abyssinia: alpine meadows on Mount Hacliit, near Demerki, 

 10,000-12,500 ft., Schimper, 1240 ! 



10. S. Richardi, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 338. Plant about 

 1 in. high, branching at the base, perennial ; stems several, decumbent 

 at the base, then ascending, 1-flowered. Leaves oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 

 sessile, J- J in. long, lJ-2 lin. broad. Flowers .solitary, '»-merous. 

 Sepals oblong, subobtuse, 3|^ lin. long, 1 lin. broad. Corolla whitish ; 

 lobes 5 lin. long, IJ lin. broad, oblong, with a pair of fimbriate nec- 

 taries above the base. Stamens about 2 J lin. long. Capsule \ in. long, 

 2h lin. thick. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: Saiuea ; belo.v the su nmit of .AIouui D.ishaii 

 (Dedschen), 14,700 ft., Schimper. 



11. S. Tn.inim3.y Gilg in Etigl. Jahrb. xxvi. 108. Perennial; stems 

 1-3, filiform, about 1 in. long. Radical leaves in a dense rosette, .*)-G 

 lin. long, 2-2h lin. broad, obovate, obtuse, narrowed to the base, but not 

 petiolate; cauline leaves few, 2--2h lin. long, 1-U lin. broad, ovate, 

 subacute, subamplexicaul. Cymes terminal, 3-flowered, and sometimes 



