154 SELAGINEH (Rolfe). [ Selago. 
somewhat lax head 4-4 in. broad; bracts oblong, obtuse, more or less 
ciliate, slightly curved, often adnate at the base to the pedicel, 3-8 lin, 
long; calyx 2 lin. long ; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, ciliate, generally 
longer than the tube; corolla white; tube oblong, 3—% lin. long; 
lobes broadly oblong, unequal, as long as or shorter than the tube; 
fruit ovoid-oblong, } lin. long. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,876; Berg. Pl. 
Cap. 156; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii, 431; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 459 ; Choisy, Mém. Selag. 30; EB. Meyer, Comm. 263, and 
in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Doewmente, 55, 73, 88, 99, 100, 128, 
138; Walp. Rep. iv. 158; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii.10; Hochst. in 
Flora, 1845, 69 ; Krauss, Fl. Cap. und Natal. 133; Rolfe in Journ. 
Tinn. Soc. xx. 342. S. corymbosa, B polystachya, E. Meyer, 
Comm. 263 (excl. syn.) ; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 10.—J. and C. 
Commelin, Hort. Amstel. ii. 79, t. 40. 
Sour AFRica: without precise locality, Thunberg! Banks ¥ Solander ! 
Forsyth! Grey! Harvey, 401! 467! Mund! Thom, 586! Villette! Walton! 
and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast REGION: Clanwilliam Div.; rocky places on Blue Berg, between 
Bosch Kloof and Honig Vallei, Drege! Cape Div. ; near Cape Town, Pappe / 
between Cape Town and the foot of Table Mountain, Burchell, 59! Table 
Mountaiu, Ecklon, 740! Fleck, 436! MacGillivray, 615! Lion Mountain and 
Table Mountain, 500-1500 ft., Drége! Wynberg, Wallich! Devils Peak, Wilms, : 
3512! Wolley Dod, 2405! Cape Flats, Krauss, 1100, Rehmann, 1957! Paarl 
Div. ; among shrubs at Berg River, near Paarl, 400 ft., Drége ! Paarl, Elliott ! 
Riversdale Div.; between Great Vals River and Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 
6585! Mossel Bay Div.; in a dry channel of an arm of the Gauritz River, 
Burchell, 6494! Knysna Div. ; Melville, Burchell, 5440! Uniondale Div.; 
Lange Kloof, at Apies River, Burchell, 4948! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens 
Berg, below 1000 ft., Drége! between Van Stadens Berg and Bethelsdorp, below 
1000 ft., Drége! among shrubs on the Van Stadens Mountains, Zeyher, 268! 
Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 3568! 3569! Grasrug, Baur! Algoa Bay, Cooper, 
1487! Albany Div.; Howisons Poort, near Grahamstown, Baur! Hutton! 
Bothas Hill, 2000 ft., Drége/ near Grahamstown, Bolton! and without precise 
locality, Williamson! King Williamstown Div.; fields near King Williamstown, 
— Cooper, 40! Tyson in MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 845! Durban, 
101! British Kaffraria ; without precise locality, Cooper, 3010! 
_CENTRAL REGION: Graaff Reinet Div.; Sneeuw Berg Range, 4500 ft., 
Bolus, 1977! between Compas Berg and Rhinoster Berg, 4500-5000 ft., Drége. 
Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 611! Colesberg Div.; at Naauw Poort, Burchell, 2760! 
Colesberg, Shaw ! Albert Div. ; Cooper, 1771! 
_ EAstern Recion: Pondoland 3 Fakus Territory, Sutherland ! Natal, without 
precise locality, Cooper, 3009! 
8. polystachya, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 69, and Krauss, Fl. Cap. und Natal. 
133, collected by Krauss (1101) in clayey soil throughout the Swellendam 
district, may belong here, §. polystachya of Linnwus was erroneously referred 
here by E. Meyer. . 
58. S. stricta (Berg. Pl. Cap. 155); perennial, much branched, 
3-l; ft. high ; branches puberulous or pubescent ; leaves in approxi- 
mate fascicles, more or less spreading, linear, subobtuse, puberulous, 
2-6 lin. long ; heads short, often numerous and arranged in compact 
corymbose panicles at the summit of the branches, sometimes solitary ; 
bracts oblong-lanceolate, subacute, concave, villous, strongly ciliate, 
13-2 lin. long; calyx 1 lin. long, very villous, lobes triangular- 
oblong, subobtuse, strongly ciliate, about as long as the tube; 
