﻿148 soKOPHULAKiACE^ (Hiem). [Diascia. 



13. D. nemopliiloides {Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 257) ; an annual 

 herb, diffuse, glabrous or minutely glandular-puberulous, simple or 

 branched chiefly at the base ; stem or branches prostrate, decumbent 

 or ascending, 1-12 in. long ; radical leaves rosulate, oblanceolate, 

 obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, pinnatifid or pinnati- 

 partite or occasionally dentate-sinuate, ^-1 in. long, ^—^ in. broad ; 

 lobes ovate or oblong and obtuse ; petioles ranging up to f in. long ; 

 upper leaves opposite or alternate, rather smaller and on gradually 

 shorter petioles ; peduncles axillary especially to the upper leaves, 

 occasionally subradical, solitary, 1 -flowered, exceeding the leaves, 

 |— 2i in. long, erect or ascending ; calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate 

 and lanceolate, acute or subacute, ciliate with short whitish hairs, 

 ■jSg— i- in. long ; corolla dark purple or rosy, sparingly pubescent out- 

 side, i—\ in, wide, with two small yellow pouches or pits ; stamens 

 all fertile, glabrous ; filaments all glabrous, filiform, not appendaged, 

 not dilated at the base ; capsule obliquely ovoid, glabrous or 

 minutely glandular, ^-^ in. long, -|~ i- in. broad ; seeds obliquely 

 ellipsoidal, -J^- in. long, deeply furrowed longitudinally. Anagallis 

 eapensis, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 149. Piederata Boncespei, Linn. Sp. 

 PL ed. 2, 20. Hemimeris Bon(B-spei, Linn. PI. Mar. Afr. 8, n. 1. 

 — Veronica africana floribns ad genicula pedicuUs tiundalihus 

 insidentibus, Burm. Cat. Pl. Afr. 23. 



South Afeica : without locality, Kerh. Linnmus I Oldenland in Herb. Sloane, 

 vol. 156, fol. 157, upper specimen ! Harvey .' Herh. Burmann ! 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; Zuur Fontein, 150 ft., SchlecMeTt 

 8533! Lamm Kraal, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 10839! Piquetberg Div.; ou hills near 

 Porterville, 550 ft., ScMechter, 10734! Tulbagh Dir. ; on hills near Piquetberg 

 Eoad, 400 ft., ScMechter, 10708! in open places near Tulbaffb Kloof, 300 ft., 

 Bolus, 9067! Cape Div.; Cape Flats at Doom Hoogte, Zeyher, 34Slb! Chap- 

 mans Bay, Wolley Dod, 1673 ! near Miiitlaud Station, Wollev Bod, 3223 ! Creek 

 by Paarden Island, WoUey Bod, 3310 ! sand-dunes near Cape Town, 50-100 ft., 

 Guthrie, 95 ! Caledon Div. ; Hermanuspeters Fontein, lOOft., Quthrie! 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; near Klip Fontein, among rocks, 

 about 3000 ft., Bolus in Herh. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 615 ! 



14. D. runcinata (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 ii. 16) ; an erect or ascending herb, annual, glabrous or slightly 

 puberulous, 3-12 in. high, nearly simple or sparingly branched from 

 the base ; stem and branches slender ; radical leaves rosulate, 

 oblanceolate or obovate, runcinate-pinnatitid or sinuate-dentate, 

 obtuse at the apex, tapering towards the base, membranous, together 

 with the petiole f-i in. long, i-i in. broad ; lobes or teeth obtuse ; 

 upper leaves few, alternate, distant, the uppermost smallest; 

 peduncles axillary and quasi-terminal, elongated, slender, i -flowered, 

 i-3 in. long, together forming terminal somewhat leafy terminal 

 quasi-racemes, the upper in pairs or subumbellate ; calyx-segments 

 subulate-acuminate from a broad cordate-dilated overlapping base, 

 iVi i^- lo^gi shortly ciUate on the margin; corolla i-i in. broad, 

 copper-coloured, with two small pouches ; filaments all subulate ; 

 anthers 4, glabrous ; capsule ovoid, -|-i in. long. Benth. in PO. 

 Prodr. X. 257. 



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