Selago.] SELAGINEX (Rolfe). 155 
corolla-tube linear-oblong, 14-2 lin. long; lobes broadly-oblong, 
more than half as long as the tube. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed, Schult. 461 ; 
Choisy, Mém. Selag. 33 partly, excl. syn.; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xx. 346. 8. tephrodes, LE. Meyer, Comm. 264 partly, and in 
Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 78, 219, letter ¢ only. 
S. hispida, Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 10 partly (not of Linn. fil.). 
S. hispida, var. nana, Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 10, 8. sp., Drege in 
Linnea, xx. 202. 
Sourn AFRIcA; without precise locality, Bergius! Thunberg ! Masson! 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 3000 ft., Schlechter, 126! 
Tulbagh Div.; in rocky places, New Kloof, 800-1200 ft., Drége! Ecklon ¥ 
Zeyher, 28! summit of Witsen Berg, Zeyher, 3817! Pappe! Saron, 2000 ft., 
Schlechter, 10655 ! 
This species has been much confused by authors. 
59. S. Woodii (Rolfe) ; perennial, branched chiefly near the base, 
13-2 ft. high; branches pubescent; leaves somewhat fascicled, 
linear, subacute, hispidulous, 1-6 lin. long; flowers aggregated into 
a compact corymbose panicle 13-1} in. broad at the summit of the 
branches ;_ bracts elliptic-oblong, subobtuse or apiculate, concave, 
hispidulous, 1-11 lin. long, adnate at the base to the pedicel ; pedicel 
slender, puberulous, 1-1} lin. long; calyx eampanulate, puberulous, 
13-12 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, rather shorter than — 
the tube; corolla white (Wood); tube oblong, 1-1} lin. long; lobes 
oblong, subequal, scarcely half as long as the tube; fruit oblong, 
1 lin. long. ’ 
Eastern Region: Natal; near Murchison, Wood, 3006 ! 
60. S. monticola (Wood and Evans in Journ. Bot. 1897, 489) ; 
perennial, branched chiefly at the woody base, 3-4 ft. high; 
branches pubescent; leaves in approximate fascicles, linear-oblong, 
subobtuse, pubescent or hispidulous, 3-6 lin. long ; heads roundish, 
3-4 lin. diam., numerous and arranged in broad lax corymbs at the 
summit of the branches ; bracts oblong, subobtuse, concave, hispidu- 
lous, 1-12 lin. long, adnate at the base to the short pedicel ; calyx 
1-12 lin. long, hispidulous; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, slightly 
ciliate, about half as long as the tube ; corolla white (Evans) ; tube 
oblong, 1 lin. long ; lobes broadly oblong, unequal, nearly as long as 
the tube ; fruit oblong, 1-1} lin. long. 
EASTERN REGION: Natal; on the Drakensberg Range at the sources of the 
Inyasuti River, 6000-7000 ft., Evans, 655 ! 
61. S. compacta (Rolfe); perennial, branched chiefly near the 
base, 6 in. or more high; branches minutely puberulous; leaves 
more or less fascicled, crowded, linear, subobtuse, minutely puberu- 
lous, 2-5 lin. long; heads roundish, 4-5 lin. diam., distinctly 
peduncled, arranged in compact corymbs at the summit of the 
branches; bracts linear-oblong, obtuse, minutely puberulous, 2 lin. 
long; calyx 2 lin. long, minutely puberulous ; lobes broadly: oblong 
or suborbicular, obtuse, u third as long as the tube; corolla-tube 
