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Erect perennials or biennials, with more than six pairs 

 of leaves, branching from the base or from the leaf axils ; 

 stamens inserted either in the sinuses or tube of the 

 corolla ; style usually with biglandular swelling near the 

 base, stigma above the anthers. 



Subsection (3). Perennes, Hill. 



Stems simple or branched from the base, and terminated 

 by definite, more or less compact inflorescences. 



Group 1. Erectae, Hill. 



Stems with numerous axillary branches ; inflorescences 

 loose and somewhat paniculate. 



Group 2. Fastigiatae, Hill. 



Creeping or rosette-forming perennials with numerous 

 spathulate or ovate leaves; flowers more or less sessile at 

 the ends of branches, or borne on definite erect inflor- 

 escences. 



Subsection (4). Repentes, Hill. 



Stamens inserted either in sinuses or in corolla-tube ; 

 style with biglandular swelling, stigma above anthers. 



Group 1. Longistylae, Hill. 



Stamens inserted in corolla-tube ; style without bi- 

 glandular swelling, stigma below base of anthers. 



Group 2. Brevistylae, Hill. 



Sebaea (Tetrandria) ambigua, Cham, in Linnaea, vi., 1831, 346, et 

 in vni., 52 ; Griseb. Gen. et Spec. Gent., 171, et in DC. Prodr. ix., 

 52 ; Schinz in Vierteljahrschr. Ziirch. Naturf. Gesellsch. xxxvii.. 

 315 ; Gilg in Eng. Bot. Jahrb., xxvi., 88 ; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. 

 Ges. Liibeck, xvii., 1903, 17. 



S. aurea, (L) R.Br., var. congesta, E. et Z. in herb. S. crassulae- 

 foha.Zejh. in herb. S. albens, Zeyh. in herb. S. pallida, Zeyh. 

 non E. Mey. in herb. S. ambigua, Cham., var. gracilis, Cham, in 

 Linnaea, vi., 346 ; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Ltibeck, xvii, 1903, 



q V n o P l r . t# Sm amhi 9 u ^ Cham., var. crassa, Cham, in Linnaea, vi., 

 d4b ; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii., 18. 



Cape Colony. Cape Div. • Flats between Maitland Cemetery 

 ana the sea, Wolley Dod, 3062 ! in moist places among Restiaceae 

 near Zeekoe Valley, Ecklon, 77 ! roadside near Simonstown by 

 lower north battery, Wolley Dod, 2013 ! Simons Bay, pastures bj 



the sea shore, MacGillivray, 503 I Chapman's Bay, border of a 



£~ 1 -h Z Uy Dod ' :>)273 ! Cam Ps Bay, Prior ! without precise 

 locality, Harvey, 613 ! Burke ! Grey ! 



mitt T?vi ety 9™ ei * i *> Cham., named Erythraea exacoides, var. 

 of tii'«i f ° n . h ? labe1 ' a PPears to be merely a weak condition 

 irenmwT /^elongated stem, lax cymes and smaller flowers 

 ioil Th« y - lta havin " ^rown amon g taller plants in damp 



It is inch ,?1 " no "*™ctural difference to separate it as a variety. 

 8 ambiaunol 1 Gll « *<*»««* with Schlechter, 7308, as typical of 

 byTcK ,\n ? m o S - 9ihhosa > Wolle y D( >d, which is also placed 

 siwific rank tk a ™?^ wa > var - gracilis, is being restored to 

 V uc ran*. I he variety crassa, Cham., is not maintained. 





