2()C c. SELAGiNE^ (rolfe). [Hehenstveitia, 



Kilimanjaro, Sir H. H. Jolinston notes one form as having a "deep mauve corolla," 

 though he adds it is doubtless a variant of the other with pink and white corolla ; 

 I fail to distinguish it from those with a white or light yellow corolla with a deep 

 orange blotch, 



2. H. Holubii, Rolfe. Plant J ft. or more high. Branches 

 filabrous. Leaves narrowly linear, subobtuse, entire, glabrous, 

 J-1^ in. long. Spikes up to 4 in. or more long in fruit, densely many- 

 Howered. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, ]|-2 lin. long. Calyx 

 oblong, obtuse, membranous, semipellucid, 1-1^ lin. long. Corolla 

 2i-3 liu. long, white; lobes very short, broadly oblong. Fruit oblong 

 1.^-2 lin. long. Hehenstreilia, sp., Burkill in Johnston, British Central 

 Africa, 262. 



Mozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa: Khodiesia ; Shesheke, Holuh, 366! 

 388! 



Flo'.vers much smaHer than in H. dentafa, and leaves more slender. 



2. SELAGO, Linr. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1128. 



Calyx shortly 5-fid or deeply 2-r)-partite. Corolla-tube short and 

 broad, or narrow and elongated, somewhat broader in the throat ; limb 

 subequal or oblique, 5-lobed or somewhat bilabiate, with the two posti- 

 cous lobes rather shorter and the median anticous lobe longer. Stamens 

 4, didynamous, inserted above or below the middle of the tube, longer 

 or shorter than the corolla-lobes ; filaments filiform; antheis perfectly 

 1 -celled; the posticous filament occasionally repesented by a small 

 staminode. Ovary 2-celled ; style obtuse, subclavate or minutely bifid 

 at the apex. Fruit oblong, ovate or broad, included within the calyx, 

 readily dividing into nutlets when mature ; pericarp slender, crustaceous, 

 or somewhat woody, rarely corky and with a pair of spurious lateral 

 cells in each carpel. — Small shrubs or undershrubs, usually heath-like 

 and much branched, sometimes small annual herbs. Leaves usually 

 small or narrow, sometimes minute, alternate or the lower rarely 

 opposite, often in axillary fascicles, entire or toothed. Flowers sef-sile 

 in the axils of the bracts, or rarely shortly pedicelled with the bract, 

 arranged in terminal, dense or lax spikes, branched corymbs or panicles, 

 or sometimes lateral towards the end of the branches. Bracts ovate or 

 narrow, imbricate or sometimes somewhat distant. 



Species about 140, mostly concentrated in South Africa, with 21 Tropical African 

 representatives and 1 in Madagascar. 

 Calyx 5-lobed. 



Inflorescence distinctly corymbose or congested into 

 small terminal heads. 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled ; bracts more or less 

 adnatc to the pedicels. 

 Leaves lanceolate . . . . . . l. S. cce^uled 



Leaves linear-lanceolate. 

 Corolla-tube \-^ lin. long. 



Stems and leaves viscous-pubescent . . 2. •S'. viscosa. 



Stems and leaves softly pubescent . , 3. S. tenuicaidis. 



Corolla-tube 1 lin. long. 



