144 SELAGINEE (Rolfe). [ Selugo. 
rore or less fascicled, linear, obtuse, revolute at the margin, glabrous, 
9-8 lin. long ; spikes roundish or oblong, dense, }—1 in. long, solitary 
or rarely subpaniculate by the addition of a few spikelets on short 
lateral branches ; bracts oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 
slightly ciliate near the base, 2 lin. Jong; calyx 1} lin. long, slightly 
pubescent ; lobes triangular-oblong, subacute, ciliate, unequal, rather 
longer than the tube; corolla white (Burchell) ; tube oblong, 2 lin. 
long; lobes broadly oblong, subequal, scarcely a third as long as the 
tube ; fruit ovoid-oblong, 14 lin. long. 
CentraL Recion: Fraserburg Div.; at the Zak River, Burchell, 1513! 
29. S. speciosa (Rolfe) ; perennial, stout, much branched, 1-1} ft. 
high (Bowker) ; branches minutely canescent ; leaves in approximate 
fascicles, linear, subacute, revolute at the margin, minutely canes- 
cent, 2-6 lin. long; spikes short, usually arranged in a small compact 
thyrsoid panicle at the summit of the branches; bracts oblong or 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, minutely ciliate at the base, 1-1} lin. long; 
calyx campanulate, 1 lin. long ; lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliate, nearly 
as long as the tube; corolla white; tube cblong, 15-14 lin. long ; 
lobes broadly oblong, subequal, scarcely half as long as the tube. 
Coast REGIon: Queenstown Div. : on hill-sides on the flats of the Zwart Kei 
River, Mrs. Bowker, 312! Finchams Nek, 3900 ft., Galpin, 1936! 
80. S. linearifolia (Rolfe); perennial, much branched, 1 ft. or 
more high ; branches eanescent or puberulous; leaves in approxi- 
mate fascicles, linear, subobtuse, puberulous, 5-8 lin. long; flowers 
arranged in small compact thyrsoid panicles at the summit of 
the branches; bracts oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse, puberulous, 
2 lin. long; calyx 1 lin. long, puberulous; lobes oblong, subobtuse, 
unequal, ciliate, twice as long as the tube; corolla-tube oblong, 
2 lin. ein lobes broadly oblong, unequal, scarcely half as long as 
the tube. 
Coast Reeion : Clanwilliam Div. ; Bull Hoek, 600 ft., Schlechter, 8379! 
31. 8. Saundersie (Rolfe) ; perennial, much branched, 1 ft. or 
more high; branches canescent or minutely puberulous ; leaves in 
approximate fascicles, linear or oblong-linear, subobtuse, canescent or 
minutely puberulous, 2-5 lin. long; heads rounded, numerous, small, 
aggregated into compact narrow panicles towards the summit of the 
branches; bracts oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 1-1} lin. long; calyx 
& lin. long, puberulous ; lobes broadly triangular-oblong, subacute, 
ciliate, unequal, about as long as the tube; corolla-tube oblong, 1 lin. 
long ; lobes broadly oblong, unequal, rather shorter than the tube; 
fruit ovoid, 4 lin. long. : 
EASTERN REGION: without precise locality, Mrs. Saunders, 68! (in Wood 
Flerb. 3882) ! 
