Saintpaulia.] xcv. gesnerace^e (baker and clarke). 501 



ovate or subcordate, thin in texture, regularly crenate, clad on both 

 surfaces with many small hairs and a few scattered very long multi- 

 cellular white hairs ; petioles 1-2 in. long. Peduncles 1-4 in. long, 1-6- 

 flowered. Calyx-lobes ^ in. long, linear. Corolla 4 in. in diam. ; lobes 

 not very unequal. Filaments glabrous ; pollen 25 n in diam., globose. 

 Capsule about 5 lin. long, narrowly oblong. — Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. 1894, 

 13, fig. 1; Neub. Gartenmag. 1894, 362, fig. 97; Engl, in Engl. 

 Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C. 362 ; Fritsch in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam., 

 iv. 3 B. 185. 



IVXozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara, BucJiwald, 149 ! 



2. S. kewensis, C. B. Clarke. Leaves entire, with numerous long 

 many-celled white hairs. Calyx-lobes i in. long, oblong-linear. Fila- 

 ments sparsely and minutely hairy ; pollen ellipsoid, 50 by 35 jx. 

 Capsule 2 or 3 times as broad as that of S. ionantha, more shaggy with 

 long white hairs ; otherwise as S. ionantha. — S. ionantha, Hook. f. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 7408 ; (Rev. Hort. Belg. 1894, 109, with fig. ?) 



Mozamb, Bist. German East Africa : Usambara ; near Tanga, cultivated 

 specimens raised from seed introduced by Baron Saint Paul ! 



This may prove to be a form of S. ionantha that has arisen in cultivation. 



3. S. pusilla, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 481, t. 7, upper figure. 

 Similar to S. ionantha, Wendl., but smaller in every part. Leaf-blade 

 1 by | in., sparsely hairy, entire, purple beneath. Cymes small, few- 

 flowered. Calyx-lobes £ in. long. Corolla J in. in diam. Capsule J by 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Uluguru; Lukwangula Plateau, 4000- 

 5600 ft., Ooetze, 205. 



There is in the British Museum a fragment of a Saintpaulia collected in the Gir- 

 yama and Tsimba Mountains by W. E. Taylor, which does not exactly agree with 

 any of the 3 foregoing. The leaf would be 3 or 3^ in. long, the flowers perhaps 

 4 in. diam. 



4. S. goetzeana, Engl, in Engl. Jahr b. xxviii. 481, t. 6. Somewhat 

 densely white-hairy. Stems elongate, up to 4-6 in. long, with several 

 pairs of opposite leaves |— 1 in. apart. Leaves as those of S. kewensis. 

 Peduncles solitary, axillary, J-l^ i* 1 - hong, 1-3-flowered. Flowers nearly 

 as those of S. kewensis, but the corolla-lobes more unequal, the 2 

 posticous much shorter than the others. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Uluguruj Lukwangula Plateau, 4000- 

 6300 ft., Goetze, 245. 



2. EPITHEMA, Blume; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1017. 



Calyx inferior, 5-lobed about half-way down. Corolla small ; tube 

 funnel-shaped ; limb unequally 5-lobed, blue. Stamens (fertile) 2, 

 posticous, on the corolla-tube ; anther-cells 2, orbicular, confluent. 

 Ovary ovoid ; stigma subcapitate ; placentas stalked, shield-shaped, 

 covered all over with stalked ovules. Capsule membranous, ellipsoid, 



