﻿150 SCROPHULARIACEJ; (Hiem). [Diascia. 



leaves rosulate or approximated, runcinate-pinnatifid or oval-oblong 

 and dentate, obtuse at the apex, narrowed or attenuate at the base, 

 i-li in. long, A-|- in. broad, teeth or lobes broadly ovate and 

 pointed or acute ; petiole about |-f in. long ; upper leaves alternate ; 

 peduncles axillary, slender, somewhat angular, 1 -flowered, -|-2 in. 

 long; calyx-segments broadly lanceolate, acute, minutely ciliolate, 

 ■Yw—w "!• loJ^g ', corolla \ in. long, ^-J in. broad, purple, with two 

 yellow pouches forming short broad obtuse appendages; lobes 

 rounded, reddish, each with a white spot, outside marked with very 

 small raised black points ; stamens glabrous, all perfect ; filaments 

 linear-subulate, connivent, connate at the base, the upper at the 

 base bent round the lower ; style about equalling the stamens ; stigma 

 small ; capsule narrowly ovoid-conical, acuminate, mncronate at the 

 apex with the remains of the style, ^-f in. long, ^— ^ in. broad. 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 258, not of Beidh. in Hook, Camp. Bot. 

 Mag. ii. 17, nor of E. Meyer in Drege, Zivei Pflanzengeogr. Docu- 

 vienie, 96. 



SotJTH Africa: without locality, BertyiMS .' Harvey, Si I 



Coast Reoion : Cape Div. ; in grassy sandy fields near the shore at Sea 

 Point, below 50 ft., rare, Bolui, 4Y70! Worcester I)Lv. ; among shrubs in Hex 

 Eiver Valley, 1600 ft., Bolus, 7889 ! 



18. D. gracilis (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 177) ; an 

 annual herb, erect, very nearly glabrous, 2-8 in. high, simple or 

 branched at the base ; branches ascendiug-erect, striate, slender ; 

 radical leaves rosulate, oblanceolate-spathulate or narrowly oval, 

 obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, pinnately toothed or 

 repand, |-1 in. long, l-f in. broad, teeth pointed or obtuse ; petiole 

 ■^f in. long ; upper leaves few, alternate, gradually smaller ; the 

 uppermost more numerous and still smaller ; peduncles axillary, 

 together arranged in terminal leafy racemes, the lower 1^-3 in. 

 long, the upper gradually shorter; flowers i-|^ in. long; calyx- 

 segments i in. long, lanceolate, acute, ciliolate with short whitish 

 hairs ; corolla purplish, i in. broad, with very shallow golden-yellow 

 pouches ; stamens glabrous ; filaments all filiform or linear-subulate, 

 aV in. long, bearing anthers, glandular ; capsule ovoid-linear, -^\ in. 

 long, Jg^ in. broad. 



Coast Eegion : Clamvilliam Div. ? ; at Bull Hoek,5G0 ft., Schlechter, 8377! 

 Worcester Div. ; Hex River Valley, Wollei/ Bod, 4006 ! 



19. D. RudolpM (Hiem) ; an annual herb, mostly glabrous, sub- 

 glaucescent ; stem ascending or decumbent, a few inches long ; lower 

 leaves rosulate or crowded, oblanceolate or obovate, rounded or some- 

 what pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, pinnatifid or 

 dentate, |-| in. long, i-A in, broad, lobes or teeth rounded or some- 

 what pointed ; petioles i-i in. long ; upper leaves mostly opposite, 

 with internodes about 1 in. long ; peduncles axillary or subradical, 

 li-2i in. long, suberect or ascending ; calyx-segments lanceolate, 

 aubacute, green, shortly ciliolate with whitish hairs along the whitish 



