Genlisea.] xciv. lentibularie^e (staff). 49 9- 



near the tips, some of the hairs gland-tipped. Calyx subglabrous or 

 glabrous ; segments subequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, the lowermost 

 broader, more obtuse and with more numerous nerves. Corolla deep 

 blue when dry, with a yellow palate, 3-|- lin. long ; upper lip very 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, 1|- lin. long; lower lip 3-lobed, 2\ lin. long; 

 palate slightly 2-gibbous, much raised, higher than the upper lip ; spur 

 short-cylindric from a wide conic base, truncate, sparingly glandular - 

 puberulous, very slightly shorter than the lower lip. Filaments much 

 and asymmetrically widened upwards from a narrow base, \ lin. long ; 

 anthers § lin. long. Ovary glabrous. Capsule globose, 1-1J lin. in 

 diam., glabrous. Seeds obliquely ovoid to almost triangular in profile, 

 \ lin. long. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Kambole, south-west of Lake 

 Tanganyika, 5000 ft., Nutt ! Urungu; Fwambo, 5250 ft., Nutt ! 



Very closely allied to G. africana, from which it differs mainly in the much 

 larger leaves, the glabrous or very sparingly hairy inflorescences and glabrous 

 ovary. 



Order XOV. GESNERACE^. (By J. G. Baker and 0. B. 



Clarke.) 



Flowers bisexual, irregular. Calyx inferior (in the Old World sub- 

 order Cyrtandrece to which all the African species belong), small, gamo- 

 sepalous, persistent, 5-lobed. Corolla gamopetalous ; tube long or 

 short ; limb 5-lobed, oblique, more or less 2-lipped, the two posticous 

 lobes smaller. Stamens 2 perfect, (in Acanihonema sometimes 4), on 

 the corolla (rudiments of the other 2-3 often present) ; anther-cells 

 often ultimately confluent. Ovary completely superior, supported 

 by a disc (sometimes small), ovoid or oblong, narrowed into a linear- 

 cylindric style ; stigma capitate or emarginate or in Trachystigma 

 divided into 2 rough lobes. Ovary 1-celled (at least at its top) ; the 2 

 parietal placentas much intruded, in most cases so as to press against 

 each other in the middle and carry no ovules there ; in Epithema the 

 two placentas are on stalks rising from the base of the capsule ; ovules- 

 very numerous on the margins of the placentas. Capsule long or short,, 

 loculicidal except in Epithema. Seeds very many, small (400-600 p., 

 long), ellipsoid or oblong, brown, exalbuminous ; embryo straight. — 

 Hairy herbs or very small shrubs (in Africa). Leaves opposite, petioled,, 

 or subradical (in Linnceopsis alternate), undivided, pinnate-veined., 

 entire or shallowly crenate-serrate. Peduncles axillary (in caulescent, 

 species) or subradical ; carrying loose cymes (rarely 1 -flowered, or in 

 Epithema quasi-capitate) ; bracts very small except in Epithema. 



Species 550 in the Old World, 350 in the New. The scarcity of the species in 

 Africa as compared with the abundance in South-east Asia and Tropical America is 

 one of the characteristics of the African Flora. The endemic genus Streptocarpus is 

 the only important one in Africa. 



This order is easily distinguished from the other irregular gamopetalous orders 



