176 SELAGINEE (Rol’e). [ Microdon. 
CentraL Recion: Ceres Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, near Gydouw, 5000 ft., 
Schlechter, 10002! Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 7556! 
2. M. cylindricus (E. Meyer, Comm. 258); perennial, much 
branched, 1—2 ft. high; branches puberulous; leaves not or rarely 
fascicled, crowded, linear, subacute, glabrous or nearly so, 5—9 lin. 
long ; spikes elongated or rarely oblong, dense, 1—4 in. long ; bracts 
ovate, acute or mucronate, minutely puneticulate, 2-2} lin. long ; 
ealyx 1-12 lin. long, glabrous or hispidulous on the angles, minutely 
puncticulate ; lobes broadly triangular, obtuse, minute ; corolla-tube 
slender, 3—4 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, aboni a fifth as long as 
the tube; fruit oblong, included within the calvx. EH. Meyer in 
Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 80, 82,202; Walp. Rep. iv. 
169; Choisy in DC. Prod, xii, 23. M. Linkii, Walp. Rep. iv. 169 ; 
Selago polygaloides, Linn. fil. Suppl. 284, not of Choisy ; Thunb. 
Prodr. 99, and Fl, Cap. ed. Schult. 462; Rolfe in Journ, Linn. Soc. 
xx. 350. S. spicata, Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. ii. 124. 
Soutnu Arrica : without precise locality, Thunberg! Masson! Oldenburg ! 
Coast Region: Worcester Div.; in stony places in Dutoits Kloof, 1500—- 
3500 ft., Drége! 2200 ft., Bolus, 5219! mountains near the Hex River, Bolus, 
6012! Hex River Mountains, at Axells Farm, Rehmann, 2700! | 
3. M. orbicularis (Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 22); perennial, much 
branched, 1 ft. or more high ; branches puberulous ; leaves not or 
rarely slightly faseicled, generally lax, linear-oblong, subobtuse, 
glabrous or nearly so, 3-6 lin. long; heads rounded or oblong in 
fruit, 1-2 in. long; bracts orbicular or ovate-orbicular, obtuse or 
abruptly apiculate, membranous, more or less shining and minutely 
puncticulate, 3-5 lin. long; calyx oblong, somewhat swollen near 
the base, shining, 13-2 lin. long ; lobes triangular-oblong, subacute, 
short ; corolla-tube slender, 41-6 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, 
about a quarter as long as the tube; fruit oblong, 1 lin. long, 
included within the calyx. 
SoutH AFRIca: without precise locality, Masson! 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Oliphants River, 500 ft., Schlechter, 8478 ! 
Tulbagh Div. ; without precise locality, Ecklon S° Zeyher ! 
4. M. ovatus (Choisy in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéy. ii. ii. 97, t. 1, 
fig. 4); perennial, much branched, 1—2 ft. high; branches puberulous 
or nearly pubescent ; leaves in approximate fascicles, linear, subacute, 
hispidulous or nearly glabrous, 6-9 lin. long; spikes ovoid, very 
dense, somewhat elongated in fruit, §-21 in. long; bracts closely 
imbricate, spreading or reflexed at tle apex, broadly ovate or 
reniform-ovate, mucronate, glabrous, minutely punceticulate, 2-3 lin. 
long; calyx oblong 2 lin. long; lobes broadly triangular, acute, 
unequal, the two upper about a quarter as long as the tube, the 
three lower smaller; corolla-tube oblong, 21-3 lin. long; lobes 
broadly oblong or rounded, unequal, aliout half as long as the tube. 
Choisy, Mém. Selag. 27, t. 1, fig. 4.; Walp, Rep. iv. 168; Choisy in 
Dc. Prod, ix. 22. M. sp., Dréye in Linnea, xx. 201. Selago 
