﻿144 sceophulaeiacej: (Hiern). [Dlascia. 



Central Region : Murraysbnrg Dlv. ; on a stony declivity near Murrays- 

 burg, 41C0 ft., Tyson, 430 ! 



5. D. Scullyi (Hiern) ; an annual herb, minutely glandular- 

 puberulous, erect or ascending, loosely branched, 6-9 in. high; 

 stem striate, weak, branched chiefly below ; branches opposite, very 

 slender or very weak, divaricate, delicately striate, moderately leafy, 

 the lower probtrate or decumbent ; leaves opposite, ovate, obtuse at 

 the apex, subcordate, subtruneate or obtuse at the base, peiiolate, 

 rather strongly serrate-dentate, thinly membranous, minutely 

 glandular, nearly glabrous, |~^- in. long, ^-l^ in. broad ; petioles 

 -j-\— 1 in. long; flowers about f in. long and broad, axillary and 

 subterminal, erect or nearly so ; peduncles mostly alternate, very 

 slender, |^-lf in. long, weak ; calyx-segmeiits unequal, oval or oblong, 

 obtuse, apiculate, iV"i" i^- ^^^S 5 corolla subrotate, without spurs, 

 slightly saccate between the two larger calyx-segments, very thin 

 and tender ; one lobe very broad, broadly obovate, retuse at the apex, 

 about -} in. long; the others rounded, about |- in. long; fertile 

 stamens 2, glabrous, their filaments -^^ in. long, straight ; anthers 

 short, pallid ; barren stamens 2, slender, glabrous, dusky, diverging 

 yV in. long, without anthers; pistil glabrous, i in. long; ovary 

 ovoid, somewhat conical. 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand; without precise locality, Scully I 



6. D. nana (Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 472) ; a dwarf herb, 

 annual, glabrous or nearly so, stemless ; leaves fasciculate, spreading 

 in all directions, radical, oval, oblanceolate or spathulate, pinnatifid, 

 pinnately toothed or entire, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 somewhat fleshy, -i— | in. long, J— -^ in. broad, teeth or lobes rounded; 

 petioles about as long as the leaf-blades ; peduncles numerous, 

 radical, 1-flowered, f-lf in. long ; calyx-segments lanceolate, or 

 oval-ovate, subacute or subobtuse, -|— i in. long, -i-^—io ii^- broad, 

 nearly glabrous, with the midrib stronger than the other nerves; 

 corolla about -|- in. long, -^-^ in. broad, the two spurs f— |- in. long ; 

 corolla-lobes broadly ovate-rounded, subequal, about \ in. long ; 

 filaments glandular-pilose towards the apex, nearly glabrous at the 

 base ; capsules ovoid- globose, \-^ in. long. 



Centeal Region : Calvinia Div. ; Ouder Bokkeveld, on hills near Matjes 

 Foatein,2200it., Sclilechter, 10917 ! 



7. D. namaquensis (Hiern) ; an erect herb, glabrous nearly 

 throughout, glaucescent, annual, strictly erect, 8-9 in. high, branched 

 at the base or eimple ; branches few, slender; leaves mostly basal 

 and rosulate, lanceolate or narrowly oval, obtuse at the apex, taper- 

 ing towards the base, pinnatifid, membranous, pallid especially 

 beneath, |-1 in. long, i-i in. broad; lobes obtuse or apiculate; 

 petioles \-\ in. long; upper leaves few, alternate, successively 

 smaller ; peduncles slender, suberect or somewhat arching, -|— If i^- 

 long, axillary and narrowly bracteate at the base, together arranged 



