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Perennis vel biennis, ereeta. Caulis 40-50 cm. altus, simplex, 

 rhizomate repente ramoso snbterraneo. Folia opposita, numerosa, 

 infra magis minus ve dense, supra sparse disposita, 8-10 mm. 

 longa, 6-9 mm. lata, late ovata vel cordata, subacuta vel apiculata, 

 subcoriacea. Flores in cymas terminales, paucifloras 5-9 dispositi, 

 rami 1*2-1'8 cm. longi, pedicelli 2-4 mm. longi, bracteis subulatis 

 vel linearibus. Calyx 1 cm. longus, segmentis erectis 4 mm. latis 

 ovato-oblongis apiculatis conspicue alatis, alae *5 mm. latae, medio 

 latissimae. Corollas tubus 8 mm. longus, lobi 1*1-1*2 cm. longi, 

 5 mm. lati, obovato-oblongi, obtusi. Filamenta 2 mm. longa ; 

 antherae 3*5 mm. longae, apice glandula minuta instructae. Stylus 

 1 cm. longus, prope basin biglandulosus ; stigmate capitato. 



Transvaal. Carolina District: Liliefontein, 

 Transvaal Herbarium), 4307 ! 



Nichol 



W 



difl, 



group of closely allied species. 



Sebaea CPentandria) longicaulis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II., 



1894, 219 ; Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., xxvi, 1898, 94 ; Schinz in 

 Mitteil. Geoerr. Ges. Ltihenk. xvii.. 190.}. 42. 



Sebaea Woodii 



Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii., 42. 



Sebaea crasmlaefolia, Cham, et Schlecht., var. lanceolata, Schinz 

 in Vierteljahrschr. Ziirch. Naturf. Gesellsch., xxvii., 1891, 323. 



Sebaea macrosepala, Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., xxvi., 91 ; Schinz 

 in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii., 48. 



Oape Colony. King Williamstown Div. : Perie 'Bash, Scott 

 Elliot ! Griqualand East: Mount Malowe, alt. 5500 ft., lyson, 

 3096 J 



t Natal. In a swamp near Karkloof , alt. 3000-4000 ft Wood, 



4447! Byrne, in damp soil, alt. 3000 ft., Wood, 1844 ! Weston 



tu^j «• '~, ^ -.,'.,.. Ladysmith, Gerrard, 83o ! 



(in Herb. Wood), 7875 I 



dijlora, S 



fa. A. W 



-«« aiau io o. erecia, a. w. run, uuu *j. ™"""" > . „ 7/1M/M - 



both in floral and in vegetative structure. The leaves in S. longi- 



oni,i;~). j ^ , . ^ , , .:„~ innotmliita above, wnilst 



cauli 



in S. grandijl 



ing is 

 forms 



-•■v. y-ruuaijwra tney are comaw w •««*»««* 117 ama u 

 this latter species the stigma is capitate, and the sty lar swell 



not always developed. It seems possible that «»™£5& and 

 ^ay be found which will link together & Imgicauhs ana 



s - grandiflora. 



Sebaea CPentandria) macrophylla, Gilg in Kngl. Bot Jahrb. xxvi., 

 18 98, 96 ; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii., 190.3, 4«>. 



Sebaea wittehrrgensis, Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, 



'ii AK if J 



xvii., 45. 



Liib 



Sebaea hwnenosenala. Gil* ex Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges, 



xvii., 49 in part, 



