﻿Diascia.l sceophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 155 



capsule ovoid-oblong, obtuse, i in. long, | in. broad ; seeds marked 

 with parallel furrows. 



Coast Region: "Worcester Div. ; amon^ shruba in Hex River Vallev 

 1700 ft., Bolus, 7890; 8012 ! Wolley Dod, 4008! 



Central Rkgion : Sutherland Div.; between Kuilen Ber^ and the Great 

 Reed River, Burchell, 1364 ! Ceres Div. ; at Ongeluks River, Burchell, 1224/1 ! 

 at Yuk River or near Yuk River Hoojjte, Burchell, 1261 ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; near the mouth of the Bashee River, " piuk 

 butter-cups," Boivker, 455 ! 



Tliis species is probably the Hemimeris diffusa ? mentioned by Burchell, Trav. 

 8, Afr. i. 222, note ; also one of the 2 species of Hemimeris mentioned by hiin, 

 I.e. i, 225, note; it is also the Hemimeris, I.e. i. 260, note. 



28. D. Alicise (Hiern) ; an annual herb, shining, glabrous for the 

 most part, divaricately branched, more than 1 ft. high ; steins and 

 branches slender, tetragonous ; internodes mostly exceeding the 

 leaves ; leaves opposite, ovate, acute or apieulate at the apex, sub- 

 truncate or subcordate at the base, membranous, serrate-dentate, 

 niany-nerved at or near the base, light green above, paler and suh- 

 glaucous beneath, |— If in. long, ^-1 in. broad or rather more; teeth 

 apieulate ; petioles ranging up to f in. long, dilating at the apex, 

 narrowly decurrent at the base; flowers racemose, numerous, pink, 

 about |- in. broad ; racemes terminal and axillary, 1^-6 in. long, 

 bracteate; bracts alternate or subopposite, ovate-acuminiite or lanceo- 

 late, acute, spreading, entire, or the lower with a few teeth, tV~3 i°- 

 long ; pedicels slender, divaricate or patent, more or less flexuous or 

 curved, ranging up to nearly 1 in. long ; calyx-segments lanceolate, 

 acute or subacute, trinerved at least in fruit, xo~s ^^- ^"^o '■> anterior 

 lip of the corolla roundly oval, about \ in. long ; spurs 2, diverging, 

 sublinear from a conical base, obtuse, about \ in. long ; posterior 

 lip bifid, about ^ in. long; stamens 4, all bearing anthers; filaments 

 linear-flattened, minutely sessile-glandular, ^V-iV i^- ^''"g 5 anthers 

 glabrous, cohering in pairs ; style glabrous, ii%-~ro ^^' ^oug J capsule 

 ovoid, glabrous, x^-i i^- ^^^Z- 



Eastern Region: Transkei; Kentaui district, in valleys and along streams, 

 1500 ft., Alice Peyler, 401 1 



29. D. dielsiana (Schlechter MSS.) ; an annual herb, glabrous or 

 very nearly so; stem erect or ascending, branched, rather slender, 

 rigid, tetragonous ; branches erect-patent or suberect, slender; leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate-linear or nearly linear, subacute at the apex, 

 narrowed at the shortly petiolate or subsessile base, entire, J-1 in. 

 ^oog' sVi in- broad; racemes terminal, 1-4 in. long; pedicels 

 slender, i-li in. long, axillary to the bracts ; bracts lanceolate or 

 ovate, sessile, alternate, gradually shorter than the leaves, erect- 

 patent or ascending; calyx-segments lanceolate-oblong, subobtuse, 

 tV-t in. long ; corolla i-i in. broad ; spurs conical, diverging, about 

 i in. long; filaments filiform, glabrous; capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 glabrous, -i-| in. long, -}-} in. broad. 



Coast Region : Riversdalc Div. ; near Riversdule, Rust, 125 ! 237 ! 



