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Sebaea (Tetrandria) pallida, E. Mey., Comm., 1835, 185. 



Sebaea aurea, var. pallida, Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. 

 Liibeck, xvii., 1903, 20. 



Cape Colony. Tulbagh Div. : Tulbagh Kloof, alt. 300 ft, 



Bolus ! Malmesbury Div. : near Mooresburg, Bolus, 9,992 ! Cape 

 Div. : Fish Hoek Valley, Wolley Dud, 3437 ! Cape Flats, Wolley 

 Dod, 425 ! Flats between Cape Town and Tyger Valley, Drege ! 

 Lion Mount, alt. 100-200 ft., Drege I Priori Bolus, 7,212! 

 Simon's Bay, Wright, 98 ! Swellendam Div. : mountains along 

 the lower part of the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 1187 partly I 



This species can be easily distinguished from S. aurea, with 

 which it has been included by Schinz, by the prominent wings of 

 the calyx widest at the base, and by the larger and more prominent 

 corollas, 



Sebaea (Pentandria) compacta, A. W. Hill [Gentianaceae- 



Exaceae] ; species distinctissima, nulli arete affinis, f oliis bracteisque 

 lineari-laneeolatis acutis vel acuminatis calyce tubuloso insignis. 



Perennis vel animus (?), caespitosus. Caulis 5-10 cm. altus, 

 ramis plurimis dense intricatis. Folia opposita, pauca, inferiora 

 parva, superiora bracteaeque majores conspicua, linear! -lanceolata 

 vel rarius ovato-lanceolata, acuta vel acuminata, 3 mm.-2 cm. 

 longa, 1-4 mm., rarius 5 mm. lata, subcarnosa. Flores numerosi, 

 in cymas numerosas ramis plurimis dispositi, bracteae lineari- 

 lanceolatae, acutae, circiter 1*2 cm. longae. Calyx 1-3-1-5 cm. 

 longus, segmentis carinatis in tubo elongato paulo inflate- -9-1*1 cm. 

 longo connatis, partibus liberis 4 mm. longis lanceolatis acutis. 

 Corollae tubus 1-0-1-2 cm. longus ; lobi G-9 mm. longi, 3-0-5 mm. 

 lati, obovato-oblongi, apiculati vel subacuti. Filamenta brevissima, 

 infra sinos corollae circiter '5 mm. inserta ; antherae 2-2-5 mm. 

 longae, apice glandula parva basi glandulis minutis vel nulhs 

 instructae. Stylus 7 mm. longus versus basin biglandulosus, 

 glaridulae conspicuae 1-2 mm. longae ; stigmate paullo bilabiato. 

 Gapsula ovoidea. 



Cape Colony. Graaff Reinet Div. : Dutoits (Farm ?) under 

 Compass Berg, in cultivated ground, ait. 5500-6000 ft., #<*«£ 

 1853 ! Middelburg Div. : near Middelburg, Denoon, 37 (in Herb. 

 Guthrie, 1043) ! Shaw ! Colesberg Div. : near Colesberg, Shaw I 

 Colesberg Kopje, Mrs. Barber, 10! 



Criqualand West. Dutoits Pan, near Kimberley, Mrs. 

 Barber, 21 ! 



Orange River COLONY. Between Bloemfontein and Petrus- 

 burg, Miss Kensit {in Herb. Bolus), 12992 ! 



Bechuanaland. By the Mashowa River, near Takun, Burchell, 



' This very distinct plant was first collected by W. J. Burcheil ^in 

 1812, and though it has been found several times smee, and is a 

 striking and beautiful plant, it does not appear to navo oeen 

 described before. 



, The plant, as preserved at Kew and in Dr. Bolus' herbanum 

 has somewhat the appearance of a deusely-branched specimen ot 

 Kxochaenium primulae/lorum, Welw., or of Lagemas, h. mey. 



