﻿Diascia.] scrophulabiace^ (Hiern), 163 



herbaceous, minutely papilliform-puberulous, inconspicuously 7-9- 

 nerved at the base, ^-f in. long and broad or the upper smaller ; 

 racemes terminal and axillary, several- or many-flowered, 1-3 in. 

 long or more, conspicuously bracteate; bracts lanceolate, acute, 

 sessde, denticulate beJow, puberulous, alternate, -l—^ in. long, the 

 lower larger and leaf-like ; pedicels slender, -i—f in. long ; calyx- 

 segments ovate or oblong, obtusely pointed, puberulous or glandular 

 below, yV~8" ^^- loDg 5 corolla nearly i in. broad, with two small 

 pouches ; filaments 4, short, glabrous, all bearing anthers, the 

 pairs unequal. 



Coast Eegion : Bedford Div.; near the Kunap Eiver, MacOwan ! 



45. D. denticulata (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 18) ; 

 apparently perennial, very nearly glabrous, decumbent ; stem 

 elongated, loosely branched, as well as the branches fcetragonous, 

 leafy in most parts ; internodes mostly shorter than the leaves ; 

 leaves opposite, ovate-oval or oblong, obtuse at the apex, obtusely 

 narrowed at the sessile subdeeurrent base, slightly toothed or sub- 

 entire, somewhat thick, i- f in. long, -^-l- in. broad; flowering 

 racemes terminal, short, dense, several- flowered, corymbose-hemi- 

 spherical, about fin. in diam. ; common peduncle If in. long; 

 pedicels i in. long or less, minutely glandular-puberulous ; bracts 

 ovate-oval, obtuse, entire, minutely glandular-puberulous, ^ in. lon^ 

 or less ; calyx-segments ovate or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, puberu- 

 lous, ^o~» i^- ^o°g ; corolla (exclusive of the spurs) about \ in. 

 broad ; spurs about ^ in. long ; filaments linear-filiform, glabrous or 

 minutely glandular, two of them very short, the other two about 

 Ta in. long; ovary and style glabrous. DC. Prodr. x. 259. 



Eastern Region: Pondoland ; in the Amaponda country, betiveea Umtata 

 River and St. Johns River, Brege, 4852 ! 



46. D. macrophylla (Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 800) ; an annual 

 herb, decumbent or ascending, rather slender, glabrous or nearly so ; 

 stem bent at the base, branched immediately from the crown of the 

 root ; branches opposite, tetragonous, loosely divided, erect or 

 ascending amidst bushes, green variegated with purple, 1-1.^- ft. 

 high ; leaves opposite, ovate, somewhat obtuse at the apex, sub- 

 cordate at the base, denticulate or sinuate-dentate, l-l} in. long, 

 patent, thin, above green, somewhat comave and with the midrib 

 and lateral veins impressed, beneath pallid and with the midrib and 

 lateral veins in relief, the lower leaves the largest and on the longest 

 petioles, the upper gradually smaller, in distant pairs; flowers 

 alternate, arranged in terminal elongated erect bracteate racemes ; 

 pedicels slender, purple, spreading, ^J in. long, bracteate at 

 the base, curved upwards at the apex ; bracts cordate-ovate or 

 lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, sessile, concave, entire, reflexed, 

 tV-t in- long; calyx-segments lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acute, 

 green, not ciliate, iV-*- in. long ; corolla violet-purple, | in. broad ; 

 spurs 2, subulate, curved upwards, I in. long ; filaments 4, filiform, 



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