﻿Diascia.^ sceophulariacej: (Hiern). 157 



slender, glandular, i-1 in. long or the upper shorter ; calyx-segments 

 ovate or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, glandular-pubescent, 

 Y2~i Jo- Jo"g > corolla |-| in. broad, bright rosy pink with a small 

 yellow spot on the throat between the bases of the two upper lobes, 

 the spot with two green dots in its centre ; two upper lobes rounded, 

 ■^ in. in diam. ; two lateral lobes ^ in. in diam. ; lower lobe i in. 

 broad, obscurely quadrangular; spurs 2, f in. long, diverging, 

 cylindrical, decurved, obtuse, blueish-purple towards their somewhat 

 swelled tips; filaments rather short, cylindrical, loosely clothed with 

 stalked glands ; ovary glabrous ; capsules ovoid-oblong, obtuse, 

 •j-^ in. long, i-i in. broad. Wettstein in Engl. ^ Prantl, PJlanzeiu 

 fam.vf. 3B, U,fig. 21 L. 



South Africa : cultivated specimen ! 



Central Region : Somerset Div. ; wibliout precise locality, Bowher .' 

 Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony; roadside in the Caledon Pass, 

 leading from Witzies Hoek into Basutoland, about 7875 ft., Thode, 40 ! 



The original figure was taken from plants raised at Kew from seeds sent by 

 Mrs. Barber, probably from an eastern district. 



33. D. alonsooides (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 17); 

 an annual herb, glabrous or the young parts glandular-puberulous ; 

 stem rather weak, erect or ascending, 6-14 in. high, throwing off 

 from the base decumbent or ascending branches 4-16 in. long or 

 more, simple or branched above; leaves opposite, ovate or oval, 

 obtuse or acute at the apex, cordate or subtruncate at the base, 

 cuneate-serrate or dentate, rather thinly membranous, -J— If in. long, 

 2V-I in- broad, the upper subsessile, the lower petioles ranging up 

 I in. long ; racemes terminal, many-flowered, simple, rather dense or 

 elongated ; pedicels slender, glandular-puberulous, the lower ^1-^- in, 

 long, the upper shorter; bracts ovate, pointed, cordate, sessile, 

 smaller than the leaves, spreading or recurving ; calyx-segments 

 ovate or elliptical, obtuse or subacute, not acuminate, glandular- 

 puberulous, about yV in. long ; corolla about ^ in. broad, with two 

 Very short pouches ; filaments linear, flattened, densely shaggy ; 

 capsules ovoid-oblong, |-| in. long, i in. broad. DC. Prodr. x. 259 

 (alonsotdes). D. alonzoides, Brege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 

 55, 178, and Cat. PI. Exsicc. Afr.Austr. 3. 



Centrai. Region : Graaff Reinet Div. ; Sneeuwberg Runge, on rocky hilb 

 between Riviertje and Luns Klip, 3500-4000 fc, 5oU», 465! and rocky places 

 at 4000-5000 ft., I)re<je, 2322 ! Murraysburg Div. ; on stony slopes near 

 Murraysburg, 4100 ft., Tyaon in Serb. Solus, 430 ! Sutherland Div. ; at the 

 Great Reed River, Burchdl, 1373 ! • , ,. o 7 



Westekn Region: Little Namaqualand, without precise locality, Scully] 



34. D. ramosa (Scott-Elliot in Journ. Bot. 1891, 69) ; a slender 

 herb, glabrous or nearly so, apparently perennial ; stems 1-2^ ft. 

 long, tough, branched; branches elongate, rambling, tetragonous, 

 moderately leafy ; internodes i-li in. long ; leaves opposite, ovate, 

 acute or obtusely deltoid at the apex, subcordate or subtruncate at 

 the base, firmly and rather thickly membranous, strongly denticulate 



