SELAGINE® (Rolfe). 95 
Orper CII]. SELAGINEZ. 
(By R, A. RoxFe.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular. Calyx inferior, 5-fid, 5-partite, 
or (through the segments being variously connate or deficient) 3- or 
Q-partite or spathaceous. Corolla gamopetalous; base shortly or 
slenderly tubular; throat usually broader ; limb spreading, normally 
5-fid, sometimes 4-fid through the two posticous lobes being united 
or the anticous absent; sometimes more or less bilabiate ; lobes 
equal or the posticous pair shorter. Stamens 4, didynamous, or 
reduced to 2, inserted on the corolla-tube, exserted or included, 
alternating with the corolla-lobes ; filaments filiform or very slightly 
thickened at the base; anthers 1-celled, obliquely basifixed or 
versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Disc hypogynous, annular, 
unilateral and gland-like or inconspicuous. Ovary superior, 2-celled 
or rarely by abortion obliquely 1-celled; style terminal, filiform, 
simple, acute, obtuse or minutely bifid, stigmatiferous at the apex 
but not or only slightly thickened; ovules solitary, pendulous, 
anatropous. uit small, included within the calyx, 2-celled, or 
by abortion 1-celled, indehiscent, sometimes separating into two 
l-seeded nutlets ; periearp slightly fleshy, crustaceous or somewhat 
woody, rarely membranous, sometimes corky and with a pair of 
spurious lateral cells in either carpel. Seeds pendulous, usually 
oblong and terete; testa membranous; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
terete, straight ; radicle superior, cotyledons narrow. 
Small heath-like shrubs or undershrubs, tufted perennial herbs, or rarely 
stall annuals. Leaves alternate, fascicled, or rarely the lower opposite, cauline 
or rarely radical, entire or toothed, often narrow and rigid or coriaceous, 
Flowers small, solitary in the axils of the bracts or rarely shortly pedicelled with 
the bract adnate to the pedicel, arranged in terminal elongated spikes, corymbose 
panicles, or sometimes lateral towards the ends of the branches. Corvlla lilac, 
pink, various shades of purple, white, or rarely yellow. 
Disrris, Genera 10, and species about 240,mostly concentrated in South Africa, 
with about 20 representatives in Tropical Africa, one in Madagascar, and an 
outlying genus (Lago‘is) widely dispersed through the north temperate zone, 
another in the Mediterranean region (Globularia), and a single monotype in 
Socotra (Cockburnia). Dischisma ciliatum was collected by Drummond in the 
Swan River district, W. Australia, where it is reported to be abundant, though 
believed to be only an accidental introduction. 
Much difference of opinion exists as to the relationship of these plants. Baillon 
(Hist. Pl. ix.) reduces them to Scrophularinee, making three distinct tribes, 
Selaginea, Hebenstreitiee and G lobulariee, while he refers Lagotis to Digitalee ; 
Wettstein (in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B) considers Globulariacee as 
distinct, but refers the remainder to Scrophularinea, waking of the South 
African species a distinct tribe, called Antirrhinoidee-Selaginew, and referring 
Lagotis to Rhinanthoidee-Digitalee ; but this arrangement hardly gives full 
value to the marked peculiarities of the organs of fructification. 
I. Hebenstreitia.—Calyw spathaceous, subhyaline. Corolla expanded behind 
into 4 lobes, divided in front down to the middle of the tube. Stamens 4 
Il. Dischisma —Ca/yw bipartite ; segments lateral, entire. Corolla expanded 
behind into 4 lobes, divided in front down to the middle of the tube. 
Stamens 4. 
