Selago.] SELAGINEX (Rolfe). 161 
solitary, or several corymbosely arranged at the summit of the 
branches ; bracts linear-oblong, subobtuse, ciliate at the base, 2 lin. 
long; calyx 12 lin. long; lobes linear-oblong, subobtuse, ciliate, 
about three times as long as the tube; corolla-tube linear-oblong, 
2 lin. long ; lobes broadly oblong, subequal, about a quarter as long 
as the tube ; fruit oblong, 13 lin. long. Choisy, Mém. Selag. 39; 
Walp. Rep. iv. 153; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 17; Hochst. in Flora, 
1845, 69; Krauss, Fl. Cap. und Natal.133. 8S. lobeliacea, Hochst. 
in Flora, 1845, 69. 
Coast Rreion: Knysna Div.; on dunes at Zitzikamma, Kiauss, 1104, 1105. 
Uitenhage Div.; Olifants Hoek, between Bushman and Sunday Rivers, below 
300 ft., Ecklon Y Zeyher, 16! 41! Algoa Bay, Berlin Herb. ! 
80. S. cephalophora (Thunb. Prodr. 100); annual, erect or 
decumbent at the base, sometimes not much branched, }—1+ ft. high ; 
branches pubescent; leaves usually solitary, the lower opposite or 
subopposite, oblanceolate-linear or subspathulate, subobtuse, dentate 
or dentieulate, narrowed at the base, pubescent, 1-1 in. long; heads 
dense, 3-6 lin. long, mostly numerous and corymbosely arranged at 
the summit of the branches; bracts oblong, subobtuse, ciliate, 2 lin. 
long; calyx 1} lin. long; lobes oblong, subobtuse, ciliate, about 
a quarter as long as the tube; corolla-tube oblong, 1} lin. long ; 
lobes broadly oblong, about half as long as the tube; fruit oblong, 
Ii lin. long. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 464; Choisy, Mém. Selag. 
34; Walp. Rep. iv. 152 partly ; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 17 partly ; 
Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 354 (not of HE. Meyer). 
Sourn Arrica: without precise locality, Masson! Auge! Mund & Maire! 
Coast Rearon: Malmesbury Div.; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 177! 1491! 
2164! scrubby flats north of Houtjes Bay, in Saldanha Bay, Yorke ! Cape Div. ; 
sand hills near Duine Fontein, Cape Peninsula, Wolley Dod, 1860! Riversdale 
Div.; sandy plains at Kuils (Kafferkuils?) River, Cape Herb. ! Uniondale Div. ; 
Lange Kloof, 300 ft., Schlechter, 8385 ! 
8. cephalophora, E. Meyer, is now referred to S. nutans, Rolfe. 
81. S. phyllopodioides (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 190) ; 
annual, erect, simple or branched in the upper part, 4-6 in. high ; 
branches strigillose-puberulous with retrorse hairs; leaves narrowly 
oblanceolate-linear, obtuse, sparsely puberulous, lower obscurely 
dentate, attenuated at the base into a short petiole, 1 in. long, 
upper sessile, entire, smaller ; flowers in terminal heads, sometimes 
disposed in subcorymbose panicles; bracts oblong, obtuse, hispidu- 
lous, slightly longer than the calyx; calyx somewhat bilabiate, 
& lin. long, puberulous; upper lip shortly bifid; lower shortly 
trilobed ; lobes obtuse, subequal ; corolla 2 lin. long; tube swollen 
above the cylindrical base ; lobes rounded, very obtuse. 
Coast Reeion; Vanrhynsdorp Div.; hills near Drooge River, 1200 ft., 
Schlechter, 8322. 
Oulvy known to me from the description, in which it is compared with S. 
cephalophora, Thunb, 
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