Dyschoriste.| ACANTHACE# (Clarke). 17 
Nees. Calophanes radicans, var. mutica, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 
1880, 198. 
KALAHARI Reqion: Transvaal; near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1190! 
Also in Angola. 
Wilms’ plant is issued as D. radicams, Nees; the very straight branches are not 
found in any example of D. radicans, 
3. D. erecta (C. B, Clarke); nearly glabrous, except the corolla ; 
branches slender, woody, somewhat quadrangular and glaucous ; 
leaves % by 2 in., narrowly oblong, obtuse, subsessile; flowers 
scattered, solitary, subsessile; bracteoles small; calyx 4 in. long, 
divided 1 the way down, full of cystoliths; teeth 5, subequal, 
lanceolate, acute; corolla + in. long, pubescent without; tube in its 
upper part inflated; stamens 4, subsimilar; anther-cells oblong, at 
equal height, tailed at the base; pollen subglobose with 16 meridional 
ribs reaching the pole. 
Katauari Rereion: Transvaal; near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1233! 
4, D. transvaalensis (C. B. Clarke); pubescent, 15 in. high, with 
straight subereect branches; leaves 1 by } in., elliptic, narrowed to a 
triangular tip, entire or sinuate-dentate; petiole 0-5 in. long; 
flowers solitary, subsessile in the axils (in one case a loose cyme of 
3 flowers) ; bracteoles linear-oblong, shorter than the calyx-tube ; 
calyx 3 in. long and upwards, divided } way down; teeth 5, 
lanceolate-linear, glandular hairy ; corolla more than 4 in. long, blue 
with yellow veins (Schlechter); tube funnel-shaped upwards; 
stamens 4, subsimilar; anther-cells 2, oblong, at equal height, tailed 
at the base; pollen short ellipsoid with 10 longitudinal ribs; capsule 
which is 1 in. long, and seeds as of the genus. 
Sourn AFRICA: without precise locality, Zeyher, 13891! 
KALAHARI REGION: Transvaal; Bosch Veld, at Klippan, Rehmann, 5254! 
Upper Molopo River, Holub, 1977! 1978! 1979! 1980! Pietersburg, 4700 ft., 
Schlechter, 4354! 
5. D. Fischeri (Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 11); innovations 
minutely grey pubescent, the plant otherwise nearly glabrous ; 
branches somewhat robust; leaves 1-2 by } in., elliptic, obtuse, some- 
times apiculate ; petiole 0-1, in. long; flowers 3-1 in small axillary 
cymes; calyx } in. long, divided } way down, full of cystoliths, not 
hispid ; corolla yellow ; tube { in. long, linear-cylindric nearly to the 
top, mouth 2-lipped ; stamens 4, subsimilar; anther-cells oblong, 
at equal height, not tailed at the base ; capsule nearly } in. long with 
the seeds as of the genus. Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367, 
and’in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 68; C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fi. 
Trop. Afr. v. 77. 
KALAHARI REGION: Transvaal; Waterfall River, near Lydenburg, Wilms, 
1232! 
Also in East Tropical Africa to Somaliland. 
The above description is taken from Wilms, 1232, which was issued as D. 
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