826 xcv. SELAGiNE^. [Ifebenstretia 



the lobes revolute, the disk of the lip covered with a long and broad 

 spot deep-orange or even scarlet in colour ; fertile fruit with a corky 

 bark. By the Humpata stream, abundant but only in a few places ; 

 fl. and fr. 24 April 1860. No. 4786 and Coll. Carp. 60, 839. A 

 suffruticose herb ; stem 2 ft. high, erect or ascending, branched, 

 bearing from the base upwards alternate linear long leaves and at 

 the apex of the branches spikes of flowers ; calyx bivalved ; corolla 

 unilabiate, the lip white, the disk marked with a brick-red spot, the 

 limb 4-cleft and suberect ; stamens 4, scarcely didynamous ; anthers 

 linear, unilocular, dehiscing longitudinally ; style rather thickly filiform, 

 inclined forwards ; stigma obsoletely bilobed. In bushy places by 

 streams, rather rare ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4787. 



2. SELAGO L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 1128 ; non Dillen. 

 Pechuelia 0. Kimtze in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. p. 270 (1886). 



1. S. alopecuroides Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 1886, p. 175; 0. 

 Kuntze in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berhn, iv. p. 270 (1886) ; Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. X. p. 265 (9 Oct. 1888). 



Pechuelia alopecuroides 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 271. 



HriLLA. — A perennial herb : stems numerous, erect or ascending, 1 

 to 2 feet high, very densely leafy ; leaves very narrowly linear, herba- 

 ceous-green ; flowers sub-ringent, whitish violet in colour. In rocky 

 thickets near Lopollo ; fl. middle of Dec, fr. 29 Dec. 1859. No. 4789. 

 A decumbent undershrub, 1 to H ft. high ; branchlets ascending, 

 virgate, densely leafy, pyramidally spicate at the apex ; leaves narrowly 

 linear, fasciculate, almost heath-like ; flowers crowded, very elegant, 

 purplish. In the more elevated thickets and in open places about 

 Lopollo, plentiful ; fl. Jan. 18G0 ; also in sandy wooded pastures 

 between Lopollo and Morro de Quilengues, rather sparingly as a 

 prostrate plant ; fl. 29 Dec. 1859. No. 4790. Stem erect ; flowering 

 spikes slender, pyramidal. Lopollo ; fr. April 1860. A plant well 

 worth cultivating. Coll. Cakp. 69. 



No. 4789 has been referred to the \3X. filifolia O Kuntze, I.e., p. 271, 

 characterised by terete leaves. 



2. S. Welwitschii Eolfe, I.e. 



HiiLLA. — A lovely shrublet ; root thickened, woody ; stems several, 

 decumbent or prostrate ; branches virgate, floribund ; branchlets 

 crowded, ascending, corymbosely flowering at the apex ; leaves linear 

 or lanceolate-spathulate, fasciculate, greenish sub-glaucescent ; flowers 

 bright violet-rosy : corolla sub-bilabiate, the 4 upper lobes approx- 

 imated, the lower one deflected ; anthers 1 -celled. In hilly sandy 

 thickets about Lopollo, ubiquitous ; fl. 28 Dec. 1859 and 2 Jan. I860. 

 No. 4788. An annual or biennial plant ; stems decumbent, branched ; 

 l)ranchlets horizontal ; flowers very densely crowded, of a very pretty 

 violet colour. In sandy-muddy thickets near Lopollo ; fr. April 1860. 

 It would be very ornamental in cultivation. Coll. Caijp. 62. 



CoJ.L. Carp. 3 (In marshes, Lopollo ; specimens not found) probably 

 belongs to this species. 



3. GLOBULARIA Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 113'). 



1. G. salicina Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 732 (1786). 

 G. longifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. i. p. 130 (1789). G. amygdalifolia 

 Webb, in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 133 (1849). Lytanthus salicinus 



