116 SELAGINE® (Rolfe). [Dischisma. 
corolla 4-5 lin. long; tube slender; lobes linear-oblong, subequal, 
4-1 lin. long; fruit oblong, 12 lin. long. 
Sour Arrica: without precise locality, Forsyth ! Masson! 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div.; Clanwilliam, 250 ft., Schlechter, 8426! 
sandy dunes near Clanwilliam, 260 ft., very common, Leipoldt, 272! 
11. D. crassum (Rolfe) ; perennial, much branched, 1 ft. or more 
high ; branches divaricate, glabrous; leaves sessile, dense, spreading, 
very broadly ovate, subobtuse or apiculate, crenulate, glabrous, 2 lin. 
long, 23 lin, broad; gradually passing into bracts at the summit of 
the branches; spikes dense, 1-1 in. long; bracts spreading, very 
broadly ovate, somewhat cuneate at the base, entire, 23 lin. long and 
broad ; ealyx-lobes linear-oblong, subacute, concave, ciliate, 1 lin. 
long ; corolla 3-4 lin. long; tube slender; lobes oblong, subequal, 
I lin. long; fruit oblong, 1 lin. long. 
Sours AFRica: without precise locality, Masson ! 
Coast Reeion: Piquetberg Div.; sea shore near St. Helena Fontein, 
Wallich ! 
A very remarkable species, bearing some resemblance to Hebenstreitia cordata, 
Linn., with which Masson appears to have collected it. Owing to the peculiar 
leaf-arrangement the branches have a remarkable thickened appearance, 
III. WALAFRIDA, E. Meyer. 
(Seago, Sect. Maorta, E. Meyer.) 
Calyx 3-lobed or 3-partite, with the middle lobe usually smaller, 
sometimes minute or wanting. Oorolla: tube short or somewhat 
elongate, often narrow at the base, broader in the throat; limb sub- 
equally or unequally 5-lobed, sometimes partially bilabiate, the two 
posterior lobes sometimes shorter, and the middle anterior lobe rather 
longer than the others. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the 
corolla throat, more or less exserted; filaments filiform; anthers 
perfectly 1-celled. Ovary 2-celled; style slender, obtuse, slightly 
clavate or minutely bidentate at the apex. Fruit ovoid, globose or 
oblong, included within the calyx, often separating into distinct cocci 
when mature; pericarp slender, crustaceous or equally indurated 
round the cells, rarely with a pair of spurious cells at their adjacent 
margins. Seeds short or oblong. 
Shrubs or undershrubs, often heath-like, dwarf and much branched, sometimes 
small annual herbs ; leaves narrow or small, sometimes minute, alternate, often 
crowded in axillary fascicles, entire; flowers sessile in the axils of the bracts, 
arranged in short terminal spikes or heads, which are often aggregated into 
‘corymbs or narrow panicles at the summit of the branches; bracts ovate or 
narrow, more or less imbricate, 
Species 31 in South Africa, one of which extends into Tropical Africa, with four 
additional representatives in the latter region, and a single outlying species in 
Central Madagascar. 
This genus was originally founded by E. Meyer on a single species, characterized 
by the presence in the cocci of a pair of additional spurious cells (analagous to 
these found in Hebenstreitia, sect. Polycenia), but in Bentham and Hooker’s 
