﻿Didis.] scROPHULARiACEvE (Hiem). 201 



oval, hairy, concave, xV-to i"- long? obtuse or apiculate ; corolla 

 more or less minutely glandular-puberulous ; the upper lip very 

 short, acutely bitid, marked with red Hues which meet towirds the 

 apex ; lower lip J— ^ in. long, with 3 rounded lobes, middle lobe 

 larger than the lateral ; throat nearly closed ; spur curved down- 

 wards, |-i in. long; capsule depressedly globose, bisulcate, y\f in. 

 louQT, l in. broad ; style ^^ in. long. Benth. in BC. Prodr. x. L,6o ; 

 Jiulfe in Oaies, Matabele Land, ed. 2, Appendix, 405. 



Dr. 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 231, treats this species as follows : — 

 a. serratodentata, O. Ktze. Natal; Reenens Pass. 



$. subedentata, O. Ktze. ; leaves creuate or quite entire, rather pilose. Natal; 

 Highlaud station. 



South Afr[CA: without locality, Mrs. Barber! 



Coast Resign: George Div. ; in wet places near George, 800-4000 ft., 

 Burchell, 6041 ! Bolus ! Schlechter, 2354 ! Knysna Div. ; near Hartebeest Flats, 

 Burchell, 5252 I wet places at Vlugt, Bolus, 2409! Alexandria Div.; Zimr Bertr, 

 Cooper, 2982 ! Bathurst Div. ; between Theopolis and Port Alfred, Burchell, 

 4052! Albany Div.; by a stream at Glenfilling, below 1000 ft., Dreje ! 

 and without precise locality, Williamson! Fort Beaufort Div.; source of 

 Mokasea River, 3000-4000 ft., Ecklnn ^ Zeyher, 180! Stockenstroin Div.; Kat 

 Berg, in the Elands Berg range, 3000-4000 ft., Drege ! Komgha Div. ; 

 near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 1198! Kaffraria, Bowker ! Cooper, 121 \ 

 302! 



Centrai, Region : Cradock Div., without precise locality, Cooper, 1310! 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony ; in rocky places at Besters Vlei, 

 5500 ft., Bolns, 8223 ! and without precise locality, Cooper, 838 ! Transvaal ; 

 Spitzbergr, Lydenberg District, Wilms, 1099 ! at the Vaal River, by Kloetes 

 Farm, Wilms, 1098 ! between Pietermaritzburg and the Crocodile River, 

 Gates ! 



Eastekn Region : Transkei Div. ; near Gekau (Gcua) River, Brege, 4848a ! 

 near Bushe River, 1000-2000 ft., T)>ige, 3615a ! Tembuland Div. ; at Morley, 

 lCO'J-2000 ft., Brege; Biizeia Mountain, 2500 ft., Baur., 29! Pondoland Div.: 

 between St. John's River and Umtsikaba River, below 1000 it.,Brige, 3f;i5c! 

 ^riquaiand East; near Kokstad, 4500 ft., and by a wood at Enyembe, 600(3 ft , 

 lyson, 1171! Natal; lnandn. Wood, 117! Mount Edgecombe, Wood, 1123! 

 near Estcourt, 3500 ft., Wood, 3560! near Ingele Mountain, Wood, 19^2! 

 between Grey town and Newcastle, Wilms, 2182a! 2184! between Pieter- 

 maritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 2182! 2183! Pietermaritzburfr, 2()(»0- 

 3000 ft., Sutherland! Sanderson, 79! Attercliffe, Sanderson, a91 ! 709! near 

 Durban, Sanderson, 448! Gueinzius, 45! Van Reenen, 5t)00 ft., Scldevhttr, 

 f)982 ! Kuntze; Highland station, iTttwize; and without precise locality, Gfej-rar^i, 

 143! 2105! 



2. D. petiolaris (Benth. in DC. Prodr, x. 265) ; a csespitose or 

 diffuse herb, puberulous or nearly glabrous, apparently annual, 

 branched at the crown of the root, 1-8 in. long ; stems and branches 

 slender, somewhat wiry, tetragonous, prostrate, occasionally throwing 

 out adventitious roots at the lower nodes, leafy, ascending towards 

 the flowering extremities ; leaves alternate or opposite, oval, obovate 

 or subrotuud, rounded or obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped or ^^hortly 

 narrowed at the base, thin, nearly entire, repand or few-toothed, 

 u-'i in. long, i-f in. broad ; petiolts ranging up to about 1 in. 

 long; flowers axillary, |-| in. long; peduncles slender, i-2 in. 

 long, usually longer than the leaves, spreading or declining in fruit ; 



