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- SELAGO fasciculata. 
Cluster-flowered Selago. 
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DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMTA. 
Nat. ord. Vuiricrs. Jussieu gen. 106. 
Div. Ff. Genera Viticibus affinia. 
SELAGO. Cal. tubulosus 4-(5-) fidus ineequalis. Cor. tubo brevi 
aut filiformi longiori, limbo $-5-fido «quali aut inaquali. Stylus 1; 
stigma 1. Semen 1-2, calyce tectum. Herb aut suffrutices ; folia alterna; 
flores in plurimis Eranthemo et Verbenze affines, irregulares tubulosi 1-2- 
spermi, alterné spicati terminales, spica simplici aut multiplici ; in paucis 
regulares tubo brevi Q-spermi subcorymbosi terminales, forsan & genere et 
ordine | lepellendi. Jussieu 1, c. 110. — 
or 
S. fasciculata, corymbo multiplici, foliis obovatis glabris serratis. Line 
Mant. 250. 
Selago fasciculata. Lin. syst. veg. ed. 14. 568. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 183. 
Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 496. coll. 3. 246. Hort. Kew. 2. 355. ed. 2. 3. 432. 
_ Caules ascendentes 0. erectiusculi, sesquipedales, fruticost, teretes, (oppo- 
sito-) ramosi, inferne lignosi et, fusct, calamum et ultra crasst. Folia conferta 
(nunc laxa) ramos (virentes) totos obsidentia, (sparsa). alterna, vie uncialia 
(3 partes uncie longa superné versts decrescentia in bracteas) obversé 
ovaia (deorstim subpetiolatim attenuata) acuté (inciso-dentata) serrata, 
rigidula, crassula (coriacea), modicé decurrentia, ad basin integerrima, leté 
wirentia, utringue glabra, subamaricantia. Corymbi (ex spiculis inferné 
foliolosis supra densé floriferis in foliis supremis bracteaceo-diminutis axil- 
Jaribus undique sparsis approximatis fastigiantibus compositi) terminates, 
Jfasciculati, densi, convexuli, omnes simul unam alteramve unciam diametra 
a@quantes. Bractew (singulares) ad singulos flores lanceolate, acute, con- 
cave, calycem amplexantes, eoque Henle longiores, virentes. — Flores fortitér 
et grate olentes, calyce pallido, corolla, pallide caerulea, germine viridi, Jila- 
mentis styloque albis, antheris sulphureis. Cal. profundé us, persistens + 
segmentis linearibus, obtusulis, concavis, erectis, equalibus. Cor. 1-petala: 
tubus anguste infundibuliformis, arum incurvus, calyce feré duplo longior. 
Limbus 5-fidus, patentissimus, tubo du, plo brevior: lacinius oblongis, obtusis, 
lanis: 2 inferioribus brevioribus minusque profundé sectis, constituentibus 
veluti labiumsuperius corolle inverse. Wil. capillaria, tubo corolle innata : 
2 exteriora longiora corollam equant, Anth. oblonge (capitate, apice dila- 
tato filamenti adnato-incumbentes) transverse accrele apice dilatuto filamenti. 
Germ: obvers? ovatum, compressum obtusum. Stylus jiliformis, erectus, sta- 
minibus longior. Stig. simplex obtusum. Jacq. nonnullis ex nobis additis. 
A dwarf shrub; native of the Cape of Good Hope, from 
whence it was introduced in 1774 by the late Mr. Masson. 
Stem ascendent or nearly upright, round, about a foot 
and half high, woody and brown-barked below, of the 
thickness of a common pen or thicker. Leaves closely, or 
