﻿202 SCROPHULARIACE^ (Hiem). [Diclis. 



calyx-segments oval or oblong, obtuse, xV-i io- long, more or less 

 minutely glandular-papillose or nearly glabrous, somewhat spreading 

 in flower ; corolla minutely glandular-papillose ; upper lip xV~i ^^• 

 long, shorter than the lower lip, bifid ; lower lip trifid, \-l in. long ; 

 spur |-i in. long ; capsule minutely glandular-puberuloua, xV '"• 

 long, jL in. broad or when dehisced nearly i in. broad ; valves deeply 

 bifid ; style J^ in. long ; seeds many, blunt, irregularly lined and 

 minutely papillose, about ^ in. long. Hemimeris sessilifolia, Benth. 

 in DC. I.e. 255, as to BurehelVs specimen; not of Benth. in Hook. 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 16. 



Western Eegion : Little Namaqnaland ; on the banks of the Orange Eiver, 

 near Raymonds Drift, 800 ft., Schlechter, 11454 ! 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Rhenoster Kop, Burke, 232 ! 

 Zeyher, 1427! Trausvanl ; by streams near Johannesburg, Band, «71 ! Beehuaua- 

 land ; by the Moshowa River, near Takun, Burchell, 2254 ! on the plains 

 between " Olive-tree station and Last-water station," Burchell, 2318 ! 



Eastern Region : Natal, without precise locality. Miss Owen ! 



Also in South tropical Africa. 



3. D. stellarioides (Hiern) ; a weak herb, very slender, annual, 

 shining, minutely glandular-pilose, ascending or suberect, 5-12 in. 

 high ; stem tetragonal, inconspicuously furrowed, simple or sparingly 

 branched ; internodes exceeding the leaves ; leaves opposite, ovate, 

 elliptic or lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, more or less narrowed, 

 sometimes abruptly so at the base, petiolate or the uppermost pair in 

 some cases sessile, thinly membranous, translucent, ^-f in. long, 

 -|^-|- in. broad, subentire or few-toothed ; petioles ranging up to ^ in. 

 long; racemes terminal, few-flowered, lax, f-2 in. long; bracts 

 alternate, lanceolate, obtuse, sessile, entire, smaller than the leaves, 

 recurved in fruit ; pedicels i-f in. long ; calyx-segments linear-oval 

 orsublinear, obtuse, minutely puberulous and ciliolate, y^-^ in« long ; 

 corolla f in. long and broad ; lower corolla-lip trifid, ^-| in. long ; 

 lobes ovate-oblong, rounded, and emarginate at the apex, ^ in. long ; 

 upper corolla-lip nearly as long as the lower, broad, bifid ; palate 

 nearly glabrous ; umbo marked with orange-coloured papillae; spur 

 conical, subsaccate, obtuse, about ^\ in. long ; stamens 4 ; anthers 

 small; pollen very small, spheroidal, marked with about 6 longi- 

 tudinal furrows, smooth; capsule subquadrate, broadly excised at 

 the apex, unequally rounded or subtruncate at the base, glabrous, 

 pallid, i in. long, not quite as broad ; seeds broadly winged, includ- 

 ing the wing -^j in. long, -J^ in. broad, oval-oblong and emarginate 

 at both ends, the body sublinear, pale yellowish-green and tubercu- 

 late, wings white and marked with approximate parallel minute ribs 

 transverse to the body of the seed. 



Coast Region: Worcester Div. ; among shrubs in a deep valley of the Hex 

 River, 1600 ft., Bolus, 7891 ! 



4. D. umbonata (Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1901, 104) ; a small herb, 

 glabrous except the glandular-pilose inflorescence, apparently 



