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CENTRAL RecGion: Prince Albert Div.; near Kendo, 2500-3000 ft., Drége ! 
Somerset Div.; open ground near Somerset East, Scott-Elliot, 332! Bowker ! 
and without precise locality, Mrs. Barber, 411! Richmond Diy. ; near Styl Kloof, 
4000-5000 ft., Drege ; Graaff Reinet Div.; stony hills near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 
355! Aberdeen Div.; near Camdeboo Mountain, 2000-3000 ft., Drége ; Hanover 
Div.; inundated places near the Zeekoe River on the Sneeuwberg Range, 
4500-5000 ft., Drége / south side of the Snowy Mountains, Burke ! Colesberg 
Div. ; between Plettenbergs Beacon and “ Flat Station,” Burchell, 2749! Coles- 
berg, Shaw! 
Katanari Region: Orange River Colony, hills and valleys, Mrs. Barber! 
According to Mrs. Barber, this is a valuable plant to sheep farmers, and its 
colonial name is ‘‘Aasbasjes.”” 
30. W. polystachya (Rolfe); perennial, much branched, 9 in. 
high; branches puberulous ; leaves in approximate fascicles, linear, 
subobtuse, nearly glabrous, 1-4 lin. long ; spikes oblong or somewhat 
elongated, 1-2 in. long, arranged in a dense corymbose or somewhat 
elongated panicle; bracts linear, subobtuse, ciliate at the. base, 
1 lin. long ; ealyx 4-3 lin. long; lateral lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, 
ciliate ; middle lobe acute, about half as long as the lateral lobes ; 
corolla white; tube oblong, % lin. long; lobes elliptie-oblong, not 
half as long as the tube; fruit ovoid-oblong, } lin. long. 
Coast Region: Komgha Div.; grassy hills near Komgha, 2000 ft., 
Flanaghan, 369! 
Katauari Region: Orange River Colony; Liedenbergs Vley, Rehmann ! 
31. W. minuta (Rolfe); annual, much branched, decumbent, 
about 2-3 in. high ; branches puberulous; leaves solitary or some- 
what fascicled, petiolate or spathulate with an ovate-oblong limb, 
obtuse, glabrous, 3-14 lin. long; spikes capitate, solitary, 3-2 lin. 
long; bracts subspathulate-oblong, obtuse, 4 lin. long ; calyx 2 lin. 
long ; lateral lobes broadly-oblong, obtuse, ciliate ; middle lobe rather 
smaller and more acute; eorolla pale rose (Burchell); tube oblong, 
1-8 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, scarcely half as long as the 
tube ; fruit ovoid-globose, } lin. long. 
CentTRAt Recon: Calvinia Div. ; Hantam Mountains, Meyer / 
Katanart Region: Prieska Div.; Ongars River, at ‘ Bushy Station,” 
Burchell, 2125! 
IV, SELAGO, Linn. 
Calye shortly or deeply 5-lobed. Corolla-tube short and broad or 
elongated and narrow, always more or less dilated in the throat ; 
limb subequally 5-lobed, or somewhat bilabiate; posticous lobes 
shorter than the anticous; intermediate anticous lobe usually longer — 
than the outer pair. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted at the base of 
the corolla-throat, shortly or much exserted; filaments filiform ; 
anthers perfectly l-celled ; staminode usually absent, if present, 
small. Ovary 3-eelled; style exserted, slender, obtuse, slightly 
thickened or minutely tridentate at the apex. Fruit oblong, ovoid 
or subglobose, ineluded within the calyx, often breaking Bg into 
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