Selago. | SELAGINE® (Rolfe), 173 
densely erowded, more or less spreading, linear, subacute, hispidulous 
or puberulous, 3-7 lin. long; spikes oblong, dense, 1-2 lin, long ; 
bracts linear, subacute, pubescent or villous, 1}-2} lin. long; calyx 
11-2 lin. long, densely villous; lobes narrowly triangular, acute, 
rather shorter than the tube; corolla-tube oblong, 24 lin. long ; 
lobes broadly oblong, about half as long as the tube. EH. Meyer in 
Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 68, 69, 73, 219; Walp. 
Rep. iv. 151; Choisy in DOC. Prod. xii. 13. 
Coast Reeton: Clanwilliam Div. ; Ceder Bergen, between Blue Berg and 
Honig Vallei, 2000-3000 ft., Drége! Elephants River and near Brak Fontein, 
Ecklon § Zeyher ! mountain slopes at Wupperthal, 1800 ft., MacOwan, Herb. 
Aust.-Afr., 1940! 8216! Kers Kop, near Wupperthal, 8000 ft., Schlechter, 
8790! Worcester Div.; Hex River Valley, on Groote Tafel Berg, Relmann, 
2763! 
WesteRN Recion: Little Namaqualand; on rocks at Roode Rerg and 
Moidderfonteins Berg, 3500-4000 ft., Drége ! and without precise locality, Morris 
in Herb. Bolus, 5751! Zeyher, 3553 ! 
111. S. hispida (Linn. fil. Suppl. 284) ; perennial, much branched, 
1-1 ft. or more high; branches pubescent; leaves not fascicled, 
numerous and crowded, spreading or recurved, linear, subacute, 
hispidulous or pubescent, 11-2 lin. long; spikes oblong, dense, 
4-11 lin, long; bracts linear, subacute, pubescent or hispid, 14-2 lin. 
long ; calyx 1-14 lin. long, villous; lobes triangular-oblong, subacute, 
rather shorter than the tube; corolla-tube linear-oblong, 2} lin. 
long; lobes broadly oblong, subequal, about a third as long as the 
tube. Thunb. Prodr. 99. and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 461; Choisy, 
Mém. Selag. 32, and in DC. Prod. xii. 10 partly; Rolfe in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. xx. 350. 
Sour AFRICA: without precise locality, Thunberg! Masson? 
Choisy in his later monograph confounded this species with 3 stricta, Berg., a 
very different plant, which again has been confused with 8. paniculata, Thunb., 
(now Walafrida paniculata, Rolfe) and 8. tephrodes, E. Meyer. 
112. §. curvifolia (Rolfe); perennial, much branched, 1 ft. or 
more high ; branches minutely puberulous ; leaves not fascicled, 
numerous and crowded, spreading and more or less recurved, linear, 
subacute, hispidulous or minutely puberulous, 13-2 lin. long; spikes 
oblong, dense, }-1 in. long; bracts linear, subobtuse, hispidulous, 
12 lin, long; calyx 1 lin. long, shortly pubescent ; lobes oblong, 
obtuse, somewhat ciliate, about as long as the tube; corolla-tube 
oblong, 14 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, subequal, about half as 
long as the tube; fruit ovoid, 1 lin. long. pe 
SourH AFRICA : without precise locality, Thom, 327! ‘ 
Coast ReGion: Worcester Div.; Hex River Vulley on Groote Tafel Berg, 
Rehmann, 2759! 
Imperfectly known species. 
113. 8. abietina (Burm. fil. Fl. Cap. Prod. 17); stems prostrate, 
naked; branches simple, leafy; leaves imbricate, very minute ; 
spikes capitate, sessile. 
