Microdon.} SELAGINER (Rolfe). 177 
capitata, Berg. Pl. Cup. 157. Lippia ovata, Linn. Mant. 89. Selago 
ovata, Thunb. Prodr. 99, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 462; Ait. Hort. 
Kew, ed. 2, iii. 432; Lam. Ill: iii. 77, t. 521, fig. 1; Curt. Bot. 
Mag. t. 186. Dalea lippiastrum, Gertn. Fruct. i. 235, t. 51, fig. 2. 
Sourn Arrica : without precise locality, Thunberg ! Masson! Forsyth! and 
cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Keeton; Clanwilliam Div.; sandy places at Driefontein, Zeyher, 
i Ad Lapel Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Harvey! mountains at Muizenberg, 
allich 
5. M. linearis (Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 23); perennial, much 
branched, 1-11 ft. high; branches puberulous; leaves in approxi- 
mate fascicles, linear or slender, subobtuse, hispidulous or nearly 
glabrous, 4—5 lin. long ; spikes ovoid or oblong, very dense, 3-1} in. 
long; bracts spreading, densely crowded, broadly ovate, often 
broader than long, apiculate or mucronate, glabrous and minutely 
puneticulate, sometimes crenulate, 2-23 lin. long; ealyx oblong, 
somewhat curved, 2 lin. long, densely puneticulate; lobes triangular, 
subacute, denticulate, short; corolla-tube.linear-oblong, 2—2} lin. © 
long ; lobes broadly oblong, about a quarter as long as the tube; 
fruit oblong, 1 lin. long, included within the calyx. M. sp., Drége in 
Linnea, xx. 201. 
Coast Recion : Malmesbury Diy. ; Groene Kloofand ‘‘ Predikstael,” Zeyher, 
1385! on hills at Katzenberg, near Groene Kloof, 300 ft., Bolus, 4317! Zwart- 
land, in sandy soil, Cape Herb, ! 
VI. GOSELA, Choisy. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed nearly to the middle, with nearly equal 
lobes. Corolla-tube slender, elongated, very little enlarged at the 
throat, mouth slightly constricted ; lobes 5, obovate-oblong, sub- 
equal, spreading. Stamens 2 perfect, inserted above the middle of 
the tube, included ; filaments short; anthers linear; staminodes 2, 
affixed to the apex of the tube; filaments very short ; anthers small 
and empty. Ovary 2-celled; style entire. Fruit included within 
the calyx, by abortion 1-celled and 1-seeded. 
A small much-branched heath-like shrub. Leaves linear, small, more or less 
fascicled. Spikes short or somewhat elongated, many-flowered, with the rhachis, 
bracts and calyx densely hirsute-villose. Flowers sessile. 
Distris. Species 1, endemic. 
1. G. eckloniana (Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 22); branches slender, 
puberulous ; leaves more or less fascicled, linear, obtuse, revolute at 
the margin, 2-5 lin, long; spikes dense, oblong, becoming elongated 
in fruit, 2-5 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, subacute, densely 
villous, especially at the margin, 2}-3} lin. long; calyx 13-2 lin. 
long, very villous ; lobes subulate-linear, rather longer than the tube ; 
corolla-tube slender, 7-9 lin. long ; lobes spreading, obovate-oblong, 
subequal, 1—12 lin. long. 
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