﻿158 SCROPHULAEIACE^ (Hiern). [Diascia. 



on the cartilaginous revolute margin, f-1 in. long, ^-f in. broad, 

 5- or 7-nerved at the base, somewhat shining, dark green above, 

 somewhat paler beneath ; petioles -^^-rV ^"- ^^^g) narrowly decurrent ; 

 racemes terminal, several or many-flowered, simple, very slender, 

 sometimes flexuose, 1-3 in. long ; bracts ovate, acute, sessile, entire, 

 tV~6 i^' ^<^"o > pedicels filiform, minutely gland ulat-puberulous, 

 ■|— I in. long, patent, often curved ; calyx-segtnenta lanceolate or 

 ovate-oblong, acute or subacute, glandular-pilose, -iV~iV i"- ^^^SJ 

 corolla about \ in. broad, with two short rounded spurs or pouches; 

 filaments linear, glabrous or with a few scattered minute glands; 

 capsules obovoid, obtuse, glabrous or minutely glandular, ^ in. long, 

 •j^ in. broad. 



Centeal Region : Somerset Div. ; in shrubby places on the upper part of 

 Bosch Berg, 4000-4500 ft., MacOivan, 1968 ! Scott-ElUot, 488 ! 



35. D. eordata (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 151) ; a 

 branched herb, glabrous or very nearly so, apparently perennial ; 

 stems procumbent or erect, elongated, branched or almost fligelli- 

 form, leafy, quadrangular ; leaves opposite, often secund, ovate, 

 obtuse at the apex, subtruncate or subcordate at the base, toughly 

 membranous, sharply serrate, green and somewhat glaucous on both 

 faces, rather paler beneath, shortly petiolate, ^-1^ in. long, -|- 1- in. 

 broad ; teeth revolute-cartilaginous, with a hard rigid tip ; petioles 

 -g^j-i in. long, narrowly decurrent ; racemes terminal and in the 

 upper axils, slender, few- or many-flowered, 2-8 in. long, simple or 

 divided about the base ; pedicels filiform, i— 1 in. long, spreading ; 

 bracts alternate, smaller than the leaves; calyx-segments oval- or oblong- 

 lanceolate, subacute or subobtuse, roughly ciliolate on the margin, 

 y\— e in. long ; corolla |-f in. broad, pink, with scattered small glands 

 on the back and margin ; spurs 2, diverging, rather obtuse, about ^ in. 

 long ; filaments sparingly glandular, all antheriferous, rather short, 

 linear-filiform ; ovary glabrous; style short 3 capsule ovoid-eUipsoid, 

 obtuse, ^-^ in. long, ^ in. broad. 



Easteen Eegion : Natal; Dr.ikensberg Rangre, Tiger-Cave Valley, fiOOO- 

 VOOO ft., Evans, 382! Polela, 4000-5000 ft., Wood, 4582 ! between Howick and 

 Estcourt, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 3564: 1 Giants Castle Mountain, 6000 ft., Bolus 

 in Herh. GxUhrie, 4877 ! Kar Kloof, 5400 ft., Schlechter, 6831 ! Behmann, 7409 ! 



36. D. moltenensis (Hiern) ; a wiry herb, perhaps perennial, 

 glabrous below, somewhat glandular-pilose about the inflorescence, 

 1-1-|- ft. high ; stems decumbent with ascending or erect branches, 

 the latter slender and tetragonous ; upper internodes longer than the 

 leaves, the lower shorter ; leaves opposite, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse 

 at the apex, more or less truncate or subauriculate at the base, 

 glabrous, rather thickly herbaceous, with few teeth, i-^ in. long, 

 aV-i in- broad ; petioles not exceeding J^ in. long, narrowly 

 decurrent at the base ; racemes rather lax, terminal, several- 

 flowered, 2-3 in. long; pedicels alternate, erect-patent, very slender, 

 delicately glandular-pilose, i-| in. long; bracts ovate, pointed, 



