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the throat ; upper segment with one broad shallow pouch which is 

 yellow within ; stamens 4, equal ; filaments filiform, glabrous or 

 minutely sessile-glandular; anthers glabrous, connivent around the 

 stigma ; capsule about equalling the calyx, ovoid. 



Coast Eegion : Humansdorp Div. ; on the rocky side of the mountain 

 close to the western bank of the Wagenbooms Eiver, on the northern side of 

 Lange Kloof, Burchell, 4916 ! 



3. D. minutiflora (Hiern) ; an erect herb, glabrous nearly through- 

 out, glaucescent, annual, strictly erect, 4-8 in. high ; stem simple, 

 slender, smooth, leafy at the base ; basal leaves rosulate, oval, obtuse 

 or mucronulate at the apex, narrowed at the base, repand or pinnately 

 toothed, i-f in. long, xV~"i i"- broad ; teeth pointed ; petioles 

 •|-f in. long ; upper leaves alternate, rather few ; peduncles slender, 

 axillary or narrowly bracteate at the base, ^-l^ in. long, together 

 arranged in a terminal raceme which occupies half or three-quarters 

 of the length of the stem, suberect ; calyx-segments lanceolate and 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, minutely glandular-puberulous 

 especially on the margin, -j^-i ^^- lo^^S > corolla about J- in. broad 

 and long, purple, with two very small pits at the base; stamens 4, 

 perfect ; filaments filiform, subequal, minutely glandular ; anthers 

 glabrous, yellow ; ovary glabrous ; capsule ovoid, about a in. long. 



Westeen Region : Little Namaqualand ; on hills at Leos-Poort, not far from 

 Steiukopf, Schlechter, 11346! Max Schlechter, 3500! 



4. D. Tysoni (Hiern) ; an erect or diffusely ascending annual, 

 glabrous or slightly pilose, shining, slender, simple or usually 

 branched, 5-15 in. high or more ; stem and branches tetragonous, 

 the latter divaricate -ascending ; lower internodes very short, the 

 upper longer than the leaves ; leaves opposite, ovate or the upper 

 sublanceolate, obtuse^ at the apex, subreniform, subcordate or 

 abruptly narrowed at the many-nerved base, crenate-serrate, mem- 

 branous or slightly fleshy, glabrous, f-1-} in. long, ^-l^ in. broad, 

 shortly petiolate or the upper subsessile, lower petioles ranging up to 

 i in. long ; venation slender ; racemes terminal, elongating, centri- 

 petal, 2-9 in. long, several- or many-flowered, bracteate; bracts 

 alternate, ovate, obtuse, sessile, the upper short and entire, the lower 

 larger and sparingly dentate, smaller than the leaves; pedicels 

 axillary to the bracts, slender, more or less pilose, ranging up to 

 nearly 1 in. long, the lower the longer, spreading and near the apex 

 bent in fruit ; calyx-segments lanceolate-oval or -oblong, obtuse or 

 subacute, minutely glandular-puberulous and -ciliolate, yVrV i»- 

 long; corolla about i in. broad, subrotate, with two very small 

 pouches at the base ; stamens 4, perfect ; filaments filiform-linear, 

 shaggy, flattened, tapering towards the apex, two of them much 

 shorter and inserted higher than the others ; anthers glabrous, sub- 

 equal ; ovary compressed, glabrous ; style slender, glabrous, equalling 

 the longer stamens; stigma small, capitellate; capsule ovoid, sub- 

 compressed, glabrous, -J- in, long. 



