﻿Biascla.] sceophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 145 



in terminal simple leafy quasi-racemes and occupying the upper half 

 of the stems; calyx-segments ovate and lanceolate, more or less 

 acute, minutely ciliolate with very short glandular hairs on tlie 

 whitish margin, J^-i in. long ; corolla (exclusive of its spurs) about 

 i in. broad, purple; spurs | in. long, rather slender, obtuse; 

 filaments filiform, glabrous ; anthers small, glabrous, converging ; 

 capsule ovoid, glabrous, i-i in. long. 



Western Eegion : Little Namaqualand ; on hills at Aus, between Bowes- 

 dorp and Buflfels Kiver, 2300 ft., Schlechter, 11212 1 



8. D. heteraadra (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. il. 16) ; 



an erect herb, annual, 2-3 in. high, simple or somewhat branched, 

 puberulous at least below, resembling in habit Hemimeris sabulona, 

 Linn. f. ; lower leaves opposite, elliptical or obovate, obtuse at the 

 apex, narrowed at the base, more or less deeply pinnatifid or the 

 lowest dentate or sinuate-entire, somewhat fleshy, ^-1 in. long, 

 TV~i in, broad ; lobes or teeth obtuse, ovate or oblong ; peduncles 

 solitary, 1-flowered, arising from the upper axils, -i— f in. long; calyx- 

 segments nearly glabrous, ovate-oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 To~i in. long; corolla with two small pouches, ^ in. broad, sparingly 

 pubescent outside, glabrous inside ; stamens 4, glabrous ; lower 

 filaments elongated, sterile, dissimilar from the fertile, DC. Prodr. 

 X. 256; ^. Meyer in Brege, Zwei Pjlanzevgeogr. Documente, 112. 

 Hemimeris sinuata, Sm, in Bees, Cyclop, xvii. n. i. 



South Africa : without locality, Sparrman ! 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, between Blauw Berg and Tyger Berg, 

 below 500 ft., Brige, 7887 1 



9. D. cuneata (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 

 17) ; an annual herb, glabrous or slightly puberulous ; branches 

 often elongated, decumbent or ascending, ranging up to 14 in. long ; 

 radical leaves rosulate, oblanceolate, runcinate-pinnatifid, dentate or 

 repand, rounded at the apex, tapering to the base, membranous, 

 together with the petiole f-i in. long; lobes or teeth obtuse ; upper 

 leaves alternate or opposite, obovate, oblanceolate or oblong, sinuate- 

 dentate or pinnatifid, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, sometimes 

 rather few and mostly smaller than the radical ; peduncles axillary 

 or subracemose, distant or the upper subfascieulate, 1-2 in. long; 

 calyx-segments broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, more or less 

 acuminate, nearly glabrous or scarcely ciliolate, J^-J in. long; 

 corolla about \ in. broad, with two small pouches ; stamens glabrous ; 

 filaments all subulate, two often without anther^? ; capsule ovoid, 

 somewhat compressed, \ in. long ; seeds rugose, reddish. Benth. in 

 DC. Prod. X. 257. 



Coast Region : Uitenhage Div. ; near Zwartkops Eiver, Zeylier, 943 ! Zeyher, 

 3479 '. Koega River, Eerh. Bonier ! roadsides in the Karoo in Uitenhage and 

 Albany Div.. 1600 ft., Bolus, 1867 1 Albany Div. ; in sandy places at Brand 

 Kraal, near Grahamstown, 2000 ft, MacOtoan, 1328! and without precise locahty, 



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