174 ANGOLAN SELAGINE. 
Those who form their estimate of a man’s finftidnde and ability 
from the number and magnitude of the works standing in 
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_ 80 kind and considerate to om inferiors, whether in position or 
in attainments, and so deeply and sincerely regretted by every 
student of British botany, as William Williamson Newbould. 
James BRITTEN. : 
ANGOLAN SELAGINEZ. 
By R. A. Roure, A.L.S. 
Turez species of this small order were collected by the late 
Dr. Welwitsch in Angola, two of which have been met with by 
of view i ; 
genus Lagotis, the remainder of the order is almost concentrated m 
extra-tropical South Africa, the exceptions being a single species of 
ischisma, identical with a Cape species, in Australia, a few specie 
genera on the western side of the Continent, and it is ne to 
note that the species are distinct from those found elsew. On 
= eastern side Hebenstreitia dentata L. is found on Mt. Kilimanjaro 
the mountains of Abyssinia, as well as at the Cape; while Selago 
in [ Sremnted y 3. lacunosa Kl. i Mounuiee by two peculiar 
species on Mt. Kilim manjaro, a: one or two others, as yet un- 
described, from other localitie 
Hebenstreitia angol sp. — A branching perennial 
herb, 2 ft. or more high, ‘wath erect leafy minutely puberulous 
branches ; ; the minute retrorse hairs generally in decurrent lines 
from the leaf-bases. Leaves usually somewhat fascicled, narrowly = 
linear, ee entire, glabrous, 1-8} in. long, 4-1} lin. wide. 
Spikes slender, 4-6 in. long, with numerous flowers. Bracts con- 
cave, ovate, obtuse or pclae often ending in a distinch 
apiculus, glabrous, 14 lin. long. Calyx spathaceous, concave, ; 
ovate, subacute, submembranaceous with 2 or sometimes 8 nerves, 
1 lin. ine Corolla } in. long, 1-lipped, split down for nearly two- 
of its length; lip subequally aes the outer lobes broader 
