﻿Diascia.'] scKOPHULARiACEiE (Hiern). 151 



margin, y^-i in. long ; corolla i-i in. broad, with two very short 

 and broad pouches or pockets, not spurred ; stamens 4, all bearing 

 anthers ; filaments hairy about the middle and somewhat dilated ; 

 anthers glabrous ; young fruit ovoid-oblong, exceeding the persistent 

 calyx-segments. 



Central Region : Clanwilliam Div. ? ; on hills at Vuur (Zuur ?) Foutein, 

 900 ft,, ScJdecMer, 10y77 1 



20. D. sacculata (Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 258) ; an annual 

 herb, glabrous, shining, 1-^-9 in. high, simple or loosely branched ; 

 stem and branches slender, furrowed ; radical leaves rosulate, oblong, 

 oval or runcinate-oblanceolate, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base, membranous, sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid, 

 ■J-li in. long, -i— f in. broad, lobes ovate and obtuse ; petiole ^—1 in. 

 long ; upper leaves opposite or alternate, often distant ; peduncles 

 axillary, slender, 1-3^ in. long ; calyx-segments lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, shortly ciliolate, ^~ in. long; corolla about ^ in. long, less than 

 ^ in. broad, with two bluntly conical spur-like pouches i- ^ in. long ; 

 stamens all fertile ; filaments subulate ; capsules ovoid-linear, i— ^ in. 

 long, yV~8" ^^- broad. D. hergiana, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. ii. 17 ; E. Meyer in Drege, Zicei PJlanzengeogr. Documented d^, 

 178; Tiot of Link Sf Otto. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; Zekoe Vley, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8503 ! 

 Olipbiints Kiver aud Brak Fontein, Zeyher, 403 ! 434 ! Piquetberg Div. ; Porter- 

 ville, 550 ft., Schlechter, 10i34! Cape Div.; on sand-dunes at the foot of 

 the Tiger Berg, near Durban Road station, below 100 ft., Bolus, 3928! 

 CaledonDiv. ; by the Zondereinde River, Zei/Aer, 3480 ! Worcester Div. j Eex 

 River Valley, Wolley Bod, 4005; Tulbagh Div.; in grassy places at Steendal, 

 Herh. Harvey! Pappe! 



Centeal Kegion : Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaflf Reinet, Bolus, 671 ! 



Western Region: Vanihyn^doip Div.; on karroo-like bills, near Mieren 

 Kasteel, 1000-2000 ft., Drege, 3155 ! 



21. D. Pentheri (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 431) ; a weak 

 herb, in habit and size of flowers nearly resembling I), hergiana, 

 stemless or somewhat branched at the base ; lower leaves rosulate, 

 ovate-elliptic or -oblong, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base into the petiole which is almost as long as the blade, slightly 

 crenate or dentate on the margin, glabrous on both faces, rather thin, 

 l-f in. long; stem-leaves smaller and shortly petiolate ; pedicels 

 axillary, filiform, glabrous, erect or ascending, Ij-S in. long ; calyx- 

 segments linear-lauceolate, acute, glabrous, ^ in. long ; corolla rosy ; 

 tube widely campanulate ; lobes nearly equal, rounded ; spurs 2, 

 conical, obtuse, pendulous, \ in. long; filaments subfiliform, glab- 

 rous; anthers 4, perfect, minute ; style subfiliform, glabrous, about 

 aV in. long; capsules linear, glabrous, about }^ in. long, nearly ^V in- 

 thick, crowned with the persistent filiform style; seeds rounded, 

 brown, foveolate underneath. 



Coast Region : George Div. ; in rocky places among the mountainj in sandy 

 soil behind Montagu Pass, 2500 ft., Penther. 



