﻿Alo7isoa.] scrophulaeiacej: (Hiern). I39 



axillary, slender, A-li in. long, somewhat twisted, patently divaricate, 

 solitary, 1 -flowered; flowers resupinate ; calyx-segments ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, pointed, about |-| in. long in fruit, glabrous, nerved ; 

 corolla pale scarlet, i in. broad or less, bifoveolate, the pits yellow ; 

 tube somewhat ring-shaped and yellowish-green ; stamens glabrous ; 

 capsule ovoid, obtuse, emarginate, i-^V in. long, somewhat com- 

 pressed, inflated at the base, at length bulged and rugose by the 

 pressure of the copious seeds ; seeds ellipsoidal, rugose, black, 

 6-furrowed longitudinally. Scliistanihe peduncularis, Kunze in 

 Linncea, xvi., Litterat. Ber. 109. 



South Aprtca : without locality, Harvey ! aud cultivated specimens ! 

 Coast Region : Uitenhage Div. ; in wooded gorges near Uiteuliage, 



3485! 



Zei/her, 



VI. DIASCIA, Link & Otto. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments lanceolate, ovate or oblong, somewhat 

 imbricate in bud, persistent and slightly or scarcely accrescent in 

 fruit. Gorolla-tuhe obsolete or very short ; limb flattened, rotate or 

 concave, bilabiate ; posterior lip exterior, bifid or quadrifid ; anterior 

 lip trifid or simple, the middle or only lobe often emarginate ; all 

 the lobes more or less rounded ; throat usually producing below the 

 anterior lip into 2 (or rarely only 1) pits, pouches or spurs. Stamens 4:, 

 didynamous ; anterior pair of filaments usually bent about the base 

 and passing round the posterior pair, in some species dilated about 

 or below the middle or forked, in a few species without anthers ; 

 the posterior pair with anthers; anthers by confluence 1 -celled, 

 usually cohering in pairs. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, narrowly 

 stigmatose at the apex ; ovules numerous. Capsule obliquely ovoid 

 or subglobose or elongated, obtuse at the apex, not or scarcely 

 compressed, septicidal j valves inflexed at the lateral edges and 

 laying bare the placentiferous column, entire or at the apex emar- 

 ginate. Seeds numerous, small, reticulate-foveolate, not winged. 



Annual or persistent herbs, usually slender, diffuse or erect, eometimes rigid ; 

 leaves opposite or the basal rosulate, the upper sometimes alternate ; iufloieseence 

 axillary or consisting of terminal racemes; flowers purple, rosy, or copper- 

 coloured. 



DisTBiB. Species 47, endemic. 



[Mr. Hiern would prefer to transpose the generic names Hemimeris and 

 Diaseia, and gives his reasons for this coarse in Journ. Bot. 1901, 103. — 

 W. T. T.-D.] 



Corolla without either pouches, spurs, or pits, rotate ... (1) Engleri. 

 Corolla with only one broad and shallow pouch, 



subrotate (2) monasca. 



Corolla with two very shallow pits or slightly saccate 

 between the two larger calyx- segments; limb sub- 

 rotate : 



Fertile stamens 4 : 



Filaments minutely glandular ; corolla about J in. 

 bro.jii (3) minutiflora. 



