﻿Diascia.'] sceophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 161 



broad, suhsessile or shortly petiolate ; teeth mucronate ; petioles 

 ranging up to i in. long, pilose ; racemes terminal, ascending, curved 

 and often sinuous, many -flowered, 4-8 in. long, rather slender; 

 bracts cordate, pointed, sessile, spreading, about i in. long or some 

 of the lower larger and leaf-like; pedicels alternate, spreading, 

 often ascending in fruit, rather slender, finely pilose, ^-^ in. long ; 

 calyx-segments ovate or oblong, subobtuse or subacute, pilose, 

 imbricate, ^-l in. long ; corolla dark pink, about | in. broad ; spurs 

 2, about ^ in. long; filaments 4, linear-filiform, glabrous or minutely 

 glandular, nearly equal, about -^j in. long, all bearing whitish anthers ; 

 capsules ovoid-oblong, ^-i in. long. 



Coast Region: Queenstown Div. ; Hangklip Mountain, 6300 ft., Galpin, 

 1520! 



41. D. Flanagan! (Hiern) ; a pilose herb, apparently perennial, 

 with a short wiry leafy stem ; hairs whitish, crisp ; leaves opposite, 

 ovate-subrotund, very obtuse at the apex, subtruncate or shortly 

 narrowed at the base, crenulate, rather thickly membranous, more or 

 less pilose on both faces, i-^ in. long and broad ; petioles -i\~a ^^' 

 long, broad, narrowly decurrent ; flowers in the axils of the upper 

 smaller leaves or bracts, several, together arranged in a short terminal 

 dense foliaceous or closely bracteate raceme ; bracts like the leaves 

 but smaller, less obtuse and nearly or quite entire ; pedicels ^ in. 

 long or less, rather slender, nearly glabrous ; calyx-segments ovate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute, pilose on tlie back, ciliate, 

 glabrous within, aVyV i°- ^^^g ; corolla about f in. broad, with two 

 obtuse spurs or pouches about yV i"- ^o"ff ! filaments 4, all antheri- 

 ferous, linear-filiform, rather short, converging towards the stigma, 

 not shaggy ; ovary glabrous. 

 Eastebn Region : Griqualand East; between Eiliot and Maclear, Flanagan .' 



42. D. purpurea (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 151); a some- 

 what robust herb, apparently perennial, decumbent at the base ; 

 stems ascending, pilose, with white shining often minutely gland- 

 tipped hairs, quadrangular, leafy below ; leaves opposite, ovate, oval 

 or subrotund, obtuse or rounded at the apex, subtruncate or shortly 

 wedgeshaped at the base, more or less denticulate, sparmgly pilose, 

 cilioiate, i-li in. long, |-1 in. broad, dark green above, violet- 

 purple b.neath, shortly petiolate; racemes terminal, compact or 

 rather lax, bracteate, 1-1^ in. long, few- or many-flowered ; common 

 peduncle 1-3 in. long ; pedicels ranging up to ^ in. long ; bracts 

 ovate, comparatively acute, ^-^ in. long ; calyx-segments ovate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute, puberulous on the back glab- 

 rous within, cilioiate, i in. long ; corolla i in. broad, with two 

 obtuse spurs or pouches, -» in. long; filaments 4, the two anterior 

 erect and without anthers, the two posterior reclining and with 

 anthers ; ovary glabrous ; style curved. 



Easteen Region: Natal; on the Drakensberg, in Tiger-Cave Valley, 

 among grass, scarce, Evans, 377 ! 



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