﻿160 SCBOPHULAEIACE^ (Hiern). [Diascia. 



nerved, about f in. broad, entire ; spurs 2, conical, obtuse, about 

 4 in. long, diverging ; filaments flattened, glandular, not shaggy, 

 aV-rV ^^- long; young capsule ovoid, obtuse, minutely glandular, 

 just exceeding the calyx. Hemimeris elegans, Hiern in Journ. Bot, 

 1901, 102. 



Kalahari region : Orange River Colony; without precise locality, Pates/iaZZ- 

 Thomas ! 



39. V- capsularis (Benth. in Hook. Comp, Bot. Mag. ii. 18); 

 a perennial herb, glabrous or nearly so, branched from a shrubby 

 base, i--2 ft. high; branches erect or ascending, tetragonous, virgate 

 or wiry, leafy below up to about the middle ; leaves opposite, sub- 

 sessile or shortly petiolate, varying from lanceolate to ovate, acute or 

 callous-pointed at the apex, mostly cordate-auriculate at the base, 

 somewhat thick, dentate, denticulate or nearly entire, -]— 1* i"- long, 

 "Ta— f in- broad ; racemes terminal, several- or many -flowered, simple 

 or trichotomous at the base ; pedicels slender, mostly alternate, 

 bracteate at the base, more or less glandular, the lower ^-l^ in- 

 long, the upper shorter ; bracts small, ovate or lanceolate, slightly 

 glandular ; calyx-segments ovate or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 

 nerved, glandular-puberulous, ^V~6^ in- long ; corolla rosy or bright 

 pink or very brilliantly scarlet, ^1 in. broad ; spurs obtusely 

 conical, about i-i in. long ; filaments all linear-filiform, somewhat 

 glandular, not shaggy ; capsule ovoid-oblong, obtuse, minutely 

 glandular-puberulous, r~i in. long, i-i. in. broad. DC. Prodr. x. 

 259. 



Vae. P, flagellaria (Hiern); stem and branches elongated, flexuous, whip- 

 like ; flowers scarlet. 



Coast Region : Uitenbage Div.; Addo, 1000-2000 ft., Ecklon Sf Zeyher, 

 55! Alexandria Div.; Zvvart Hoogte, 2000 ft., Eclchn ^ Zeyher, 88! Albany 

 Div.; near Grabumstown, Bolton ! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1539! 

 Qtieenstown Div. ? by the side of a river on Mount Hope Farm, 5000 ft., Galpin, 

 2676 ! Eastern Frontier, MacOwm, 356 I 



CENTSAt REGION: Somerset Div.; on the slopes of Bosch Berg, 400 ft-» 

 MacOwati, 1541 ! and without precise locality, Bowker ! Graaff Reinet Div. ; 

 Portlock, Boivlcer, 22 ! on stony mountain sides near GraafE Reinet, Bolus, 58 ! 

 and in Herb, Tform. Anst.-Afr., 1088! Albert Div.; Burghersdorp, Guthrie in 

 Herb. Bolus^ 4910! Colesberg Div. ; Colesberg, Shaw ' Vak. : Somerset Div.; 

 Bruintjes Hoogte, Burchell, 3004! 3015! 3089! 3097! and without precise 

 locality, Boi,;^-gr, 197! 201 ! Graatf Reinet Div.; on Wagenpads Berg, -Bwrc?ieJ^ 

 2820 ! Colesberg Div. j near Naauw Poort, Denoon, 60 ! 



Eastern Region: Natal ? without precise locality, Cooper, 2876 ! 



40. p. stachyoides (Schlechter MSS.) ; a pilose herb, branched 

 at the crown of the apparently perennial root ; branches prostrate or 

 procumbent, shortly flagelliform, patently hairy, i-l| ft. long ; 

 hairs whitish, jointed, tipped with minute glands; internodes 

 mostly shorter than the leaves ; leaves opposite, roundly ovate or 

 oval, very obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, subcordate, rounded 

 or subtruucate at the inconspicuously 5-7- nerved base, serrate- 

 dentate, firmly membranous, finely pilose, f-| in. long, l—f i^- 



