Tap. 8782. 
DIASCIA ALicrIaA£. 
South A frica. 
ScRoPHULARIACEAE,. Tribe HEMIMERIDEAE. 
Duascia, Link et Otto; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 931. 
Diascia Aliciae, Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vol. iv. sect. 2, p. 155; species 
D. Burchellii, Benth., proxima, sed foliis acutis vel apiculatis, corollae 
calcaribus longioribus differt. 
Herba perennis, usque ad *75 m. alta, inflorescentia excepta glaberrima, diffuse 
ramosa. Caules adscendentes, quadrangulares, anguste 4-alati, 4-6 mm. 
diametro. Folia opposita, decussata, petiolata, ovata, apice acuta vel 
apiculata, basi rotundata, dentato-serrata, 3-5 cm. longa, 3-4°5 cm. lata; 
petiolus ‘5-1°5 cm. longus, anguste alatus. Racemz terminales, laxi, 
multiflori, 5-25 em. longi. Bracteae ovatae, acuminatae, integerrimae vel 
basi paucidenticulatae, 4-7 mm. longae. Pedicelli erecto-patentes, graciles, 
-5-1°5 em. longi, glanduloso-pubescentes. Calyx 5-partitus, 3-4 mm. 
longus, parce glanduloso-pubescens ; segmenta subaequalia, lineari-lanceo- 
lata, circiter *75 mm. lata. Corolla pallide rosea, basi labiorum maculis 
rubescentibus ornata, intra saccum viridescens, parce glanduloso-pubescens ; 
tubus brevissimus, latus, postice saccatus, antice bicalcaratus ; limbus 
bilabiatus, circiter 1°5 cm. longus et 1°3 cm. latus H labium posticum 
breviter bilobum; lobi subquadrati, leviter recurvi, circiter 2 mm. 
diametro; labium anticum trilobum ; lobi laterales suborbiculares, patentes 
vel recurvi, 3 mm. diametro; lobus intermedius patens, orbicularis, 
7-8 mm. diametro, basi papillis minutis purpureis instructus ; calcaria 
6-7 mm. longa, sub lobo intermedio labii antici incurva. Stamina 4, 
inclusa, 2°5 mm. longa ; filamenta glanduloso-pubescentia ; antherae con- 
niventes vel cohaerentes. Ovariwm anguste ovoideum, glabrum;_ stylus 
crassiusculus, staminibus subaequilongus; stigma obscure bilobum. 
Capsula ellipsoidea, 3-4 mm. longa, 1°6 mm. lata.—S. A. Skan. 
The genus Diascia includes some fifty species, all of 
them natives of South Africa. Most of them are without 
horticultural value, and the only species, other than 
D. Aliciae here figured, known in European gardens is 
D. Barberae, Hook. f., which was introduced in 1870 and 
is figured at t. 5933 of this work. The species now 
described was discovered in 1903 in the Kentani district 
of the Transkei by Miss Alice Pegler, who met with it in 
damp sheltered spots at about 1,500 feet above sea-level. 
The material for our plate has been provided by plants 
OcroBER-DECEMBER, 1918. 
