﻿164 SCROPHULAEIACE^ (Hiern). [Diascia. 



glabrous, unequal, erect or ascending, the two longer inserted at the 

 base of the upper corolla-limb, the two shorter inserted at the lower 

 lip, circumflexed at the base; capsule narrowly ovoid-oblong, sub- 

 linear, i-i in. long, -I in. broad, somewhat oblique or curving 

 inwards. Benth. in Hook. Camp. Bot. Mag. ii. 17, and in DO. 

 Prodr. X. 258. Hemimeris macrophylla, Thunh. Nov. Gen. PI. 

 iv. 76, Prodr. 105, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 484. 



South Africa : without locality, Masson! Berh. Burmann ! 

 Central Region : Calviuia Div. ; near a river between Bokkeland and 

 Hantain, Thunherg ! 



47. D. veronicoides (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 178) ; 

 an annual herb, weak, decumbent or ascending, glabrous for the 

 most part, slightly puberulous towards the top, slender, 1-2 ft, 

 high, loosely branched below; branches ascending, or the lowest 

 spreading, tetragonous ; internodes f-2J in. long; leaves opposite, 

 ovate, obtuse or acutely and shortly acuminate at the apex, sub- 

 cordate or subtruncrtte at the base, dentate or denticulate, mem- 

 branous, green on both faces, |^-1^ in. long, |-1|- in. broad ; petioles 

 short or ranging up to -|- in. long, narrowly decurrent ; racemes 

 terminal, elongating, 1^-12 in. long, many -flowered ; pedicels very 

 slender, l—^ in, long or the upper shorter, patent, bent near the 

 apex ; bracts ovate-subulate, sessile, embracing the base of the 

 pedicel, spreading or deflexed, \-l in. long ; calyx-segments lanceo- 

 late, acute, glabrous, iVrV ^^- ^^^S J corolla purple, about ^ m- 

 broad ; spurs 2, diverging, conical, acute, about yV ^^- ^'^^^ ' 

 filaments slender, glabrous, all bearing anthers ; capsule linear, 

 glabrous, -^— | in. long by -^h—io i^- broad, mostly erect and sub- 

 parallel, straight or somewhat curved. 



Central Region: Clanwilliam Div.; on Koude Berg, near Wupporthal, 

 2400 ft., Bolus, 9065 ! Div. ? on hills at Agtertiern, 900 ft., Schlechter, 10867! 

 Hanover Div.; near Naanwpoort, Denoon, 22! (in Herb. Bolus), doubtfully 

 referred to this species. 



Western Region : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; in rocky places in a deep valley of 

 the Karree Beigen, about 2000 ft., Schlechter, 8203 ! 



Diascia integrifolia, Spreng., mentioned in the South African Quarterly 

 Journal, 1830, No. iv. 369, ts having been found by C. ¥. Ecklou in the districts 

 of Uiteuhage is unknown to me. 



VII. HEMIMERIS, Linn. f. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments somewhat unequal in breadth, scarcely 

 imbricate in bud. Corolla spreading ; tube very short, concave or 

 obsolete ; limb subbilabidte, 4-cleft ; posteiior lobe exterior, very 

 shortly emarginate ; lateral lobes short, broad, smaller than the 

 others ; lower lip with two yellow spurs or small pouches at the 

 base, sometimes with two tooth-like appendages clasping the fila- 

 ments of the stamens by the side of the corolla-throat. Stamens 2 ; 

 filaments short, kneed at the base, not appendaged, inserted at the 



