﻿Hemimeris.'] sceophulaeiace^ (Hiern). 167 



on the inner surface of the corolla, but there are two small pockets 

 projecting upwards in the reverse sense, that is, the elevation is on 

 the inner and the depression on the outer surface of the corolla, so 

 placed that the filaments are in no wise hidden by them {Bolus) ; 

 filamenfs linear, flat, glabrous, adpressed to the lower corolla-lip, 

 somewhat curved near the base ; anthers rather large ; capsule ^ in. 

 long. Thunh. Nov. Gen. PI. iv. 79, Prodr. 105, and Fl. Cap", ed. 

 Schult. 485; Lam. III. iii. 85, t. 532, fig. 2; Benth. in Hook. 

 Comp. Bot. Hag. ii. 16, and in DC. Prodr. x. 2bQ.—Anagallis 

 purp. Bursas Pastoris foliis minoribus, Petiv. Mm. Bot. cent. 4,36. 

 Alsines seu Spergul(B dictee species africana, J. Burm. Cat. Plant. 

 Afr. 2. 



South Africa : without locnlity, Oldenland ! Kiqgelaar ! Oldenburg ! 

 Ma'ison! Menzies! Forbes! Wallich ! JSarvey ! Sonnerat, Harb. Burmann ! 

 Hort. Keiv. in 1775 ! 



Coast Region: Clanwilliam Diy. ; Vo^el Fontein, 1000 ft., Sehlechfer, 

 8512 ! by the Olifants Eiver and near Brak Fontein, Zeyker, 1263 ! Zeekoe Vley, 

 400 ft., ScUecMer, 8482! Cape Div. ; hills near Capetown, Thunberg ! EcUon ! 

 Simons Bay, Wright, 599 ! sandy flats between Blauw Berg and Tyger Berg, below 

 50Q_ ft-, Driqe . 315Id! Camp ground, iFoiley JDoti, 163 ! near Mnitlatid, WoUey 

 Bod, 162 ! on sandy dunes near Retreat Station, 50 ft.. Bolus, 7241! Salt River, 

 Ecklon! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Gueinzias ! 



3. H. gracilis (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 375) ; an erect 

 herb, annual, slender, weak, glandular-puberulous, dull, simple or 

 sparingly branched ; stem straight or somewhat flexuous, 3-10 in. 

 high, terete or somewhat tetragonous ; middle internodes exceeding 

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

 subtruncate or shortly narrowed at the base, distantly dentate or 

 crenulate-repand, i-| in. long, -jV-y i^- broad ; petioles ranging up 

 to f in. long; flowers axillary to the upper leaves; peduncles fili- 

 form, i-|^ in. long, suberect in flower, spreading or deflexed in 

 fruit ; calyx-segments narrowly oblong or sublanceolate, obtuse, 

 glandular-puberulous, yVtV i"- l^^g > corolla ^-i in. broad, golden- 

 coloured ; posterior lip much smaller than the anterior lip, concave, 

 obtuse, rounded; anterior lip subquadrate, very obtuse, glabrous; 

 spurs 2, conical, obtuse, diverging, glabrous, -J-i in. long ; stamens 2 ; 

 style linear, short, hyaline-winged on both sides, glabrous, ./^ in. 

 long ; stigma rather broad ; capsule ovoid-globose, glabrous, J in. 

 long, I in. broad ; seeds subglobose, granular-punctate, pale brown. 



Coast Region : Worcester Div. ; in ssindy f.md atony places by the main 

 road in Hex River valley, Wolley Dod, 4010 ! 



4. H. centrodes (Hiern) ; an erect herb, annual, shortly and 

 closely pubescent, dull green, minutely glandular, somewhat branched 

 at the base, or simple, 5-9 in. high ; branches ascending, opposite, 

 tetragonous, sulcate, rather weak ; internodes mostly exceeding 

 or about equalling the leaves ; leaves opposite, ovate or elliptical, 

 obtusely narrowed at the apex, subtri.ncate or abruptly wedge- 

 shaped at the base, strongly dentate or subpinnatifid, ^-l in. long, 



