Statiee. | PLUMBAGINER (Wright), 425 
A plant about 6 in, high collected by Major Wolley Dod (678) at Vyges 
Kraal in Cape Div, probably belongs to this species. 
8. 8. dregeana (Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 105); rootstock woody ; 
leaves linear-spathulate, 14 in. long, up to 2 lin. wide, obtuse, 
mucronate; scape 4-10 in. high, flexuous, rough, as are also the 
panicle-branches and bracts; panicle much-branched, branches 
secund ; spikelets 2-flowered; bracts short, sheathing, acute; outer 
bracteoles 2, subequal, inner elliptic, much longer than the outer ; 
calyx 2 lin. long, 5-ribbed ; tube hairy outside, reddish; limb 
scarcely as long as the tube, obtusely and shortly 5-lobed, white. 
S. tetragona, Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 94, not of 
Thunb. 
WesterN Reaion : Little Namaqualand ; Haazenkraals River, 2000-2500 ft., 
Drége! 
9. S. avenacea (C. H. Wright) ; rootstock woody ; leaves oblan- 
ceolate, 11 in. long, }—% in. wide, rounded and shortly mueronate at 
the apex, smooth, margins slightly revolute; scapes several from one 
rootstock, flexuous, slightly tuberculate, 1-2 ft. high; branches 
more or less erect ; spikelets congested near the ends of the branches, 
2-flowered ; bracts shortly triangular, acuminate; outer bracteoles 
1 lin. long, broadly triangular, acute, hyaline-margined, puberulous 
on the back; inner bracteole broadly elliptic, acute, 2} lin. long, 
enwrapping the flower, hyaline-margined; calyx tubular-campanu- 
Jate, 33 lin. long, subulate in bud; lobes 5, } lin. long, rounded, 
entire ; petals much longer than the calyx, linear-lanceolate, violet ? 
Sovta Arrica: without locality, Grey ! 
Coast Rr@ion : Bredasdorp Div. ; sandy pluces near the mouth of the Ratel 
River, 150 ft., Bolus, 8576! 
This resembles 8. scabra, Thunb., but is of more lax habit. 
10. S. anthericoides (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 450); 
a stemless herb; leaves in one or more radical rosettes, obovate- or 
elliptic-spathulate, obtuse, scabrid, coriaceous, 9 lin. long, 3 lin. 
wide ; scape erect, about a foot high, verrucose, much (but laxly) 
_ branched above; spikelets 2-flowered, distant; bracts broadly ovate 
or suborbicular, obtuse, margin wide and hyaline ; calyx obconic, 
2-3 lin. long, 5-ribbed, pilose at the base ; lobes 5, triangular, acute, 
long mucronate, alternating with 5 very short obtuse lobes ; petals 
nearly 4 lin. long, narrow, obtuse or shortly emarginate ; filaments 
glabrous, filiform from a dilated base; anthers oblong ; styles fili- 
form, free to the base, glabrous ; ovary 5-angled, obovoid, glabrous. 
Coast Recion: Bredasdorp Div.; heathy places near Elim, Schlechter, 
7709! Bolus, 8575! 
11, §. decumbens (Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 659) ; herbaceous, 
-with small tufts of short hairs on the scapes and branches ; radical 
leaves narrowly lanceolate-spathulate, obtuse, tapering into the 
