266 C, SELAGINEE (ROLFE). | Hebenstreitia. 
Kilimanjaro, Sir H, H. Johnston notes one form as having a “deep mauve corolla,” 
though he adds it is doubtless a variant of the other with pink and white corolla 5 
I fail to distinguish it from those with a white or light yellow corolla with a deep 
orange blotch. 
2. H. Holubii, Rolfe. Plant } ft. or more high. Branches. 
glabrous. Leaves narrowly linear, subobtuse, entire, glabrous, 
3-1] in. long. Spikes up to 4 in. or more long in fruit, densely many- 
flowered. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 14-2 lin. long. Calyx 
oblong, obtuse, membranous, semipellucid, 1-1} lin. long. Corolla 
24-3 lin. long, white; lobes very short, broadly cblong. Fruit oblong, 
14-2 lin. long. Hebenstreitia, sp., Burkill in Jchnston, British Central 
Africa, 262. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Rhodesia, Shesheke, Holub, 366! 
388 ! 
Flowers much smaller than in H. dentata, and leaves more slender. 
2. SELAGO, Linr.; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. PI. ii. 1128. 
Calyx shortly 5-fid or deeply 2—5-partite. Corolla-tube short and 
broad, or narrow and elongated, somewhat broader in the throat; limb 
subequal or oblique, 5-lobed or somewhat bilabiate, with the two posti- 
cous lobes rather shorter and the median anticous lobe longer. Stamens 
4, didynamous, inserted above or below the middle of the tube, longer 
or shorter than the corolla-lobes; filaments filiform; anthers perfectly 
1-celled; the posticous filament occasionally represented by a small 
staminode. Ovary 2-celled; style obtuse, subclavate or minutely bifid 
at the apex. Fruit oblong, ovate or broad, included within the calyx, 
readily dividing into nutlets when mature ; pericarp slender, crustaceous, 
or somewhat woody, rarely corky and with a pair of spurious lateral 
cells in each carpel.—Small shrubs or undershrubs, usually heath-like 
and much branched, sometimes small annual herbs. Leaves usually 
small or narrow, sometimes minute, alternate or the lower rarely 
opposite, often in axillary fascicles, entire or toothed. Flowers sessile 
in the axils of the bracts, or rarely shortly pedicelled with the bract, 
arranged in terminal, dense or lax spikes, branched corymbs or panicles,. 
or sometimes lateral towards the end of the branches. Bracts ovate or 
narrow, imbricate or sometimes somewhat distant. 
Species about 140, mostly concentrated in South Africa, with 21 Tropical African 
representatives and 1 in Madagascar, 
Calyx 5-lobed. 
Inflorescence distinctly corymbose or congested into 
small terminal heads. 
Flowers shortly pedicelled; bracts more or less 
adnate to the pedicels, 
Leaves lanceolate 
Leaves linear-lanceolate. 
Corolla-tube }—} lin. long. 
Stems and leaves viscous-pubescent . 2 
Stems and leaves softly pubescent 
Corolla-tube 1 lin. long. 
. . . . . 1. 8. coerulea, 
. S. viscosa, 
3. S. tenuicaulis. 
