92 ACANTHACE® (Clarke). [ Dicliptera. 
5. D. transvaalensis (C. B. Clarke); branches patently hairy ; 
leaves (upper only seen) 11 by %_in., elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 
hairy, base cuneate ; petiole 4, in. long ; inflorescence 4 by 1 in., 
terminal, compound, of rather close panicles ; bracts 3-3 by 2 in., 
lanceolate or linear-oblong, closely and shortly hairy, not mucronate ; 
corolla 3 in. long; stamens 2 ; anther-cells 2, muticous, one above 
the other. 
Katanari Recion: Transvaal; without precise locality, Holub! 
6. D. Quintasii (Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxii, 121); branches 
1 ft. long, 6-angular, hairy or almost hispid ; leaves up to 12 by 1 in. 
Jong, rhomboid-elliptic, narrowed at the base, pubescent ; petioles 
up to $ in. long; heads 2-1 in, in diam., of few or many spikelets, 
terminal or axillary and on axillary peduncles 1-2 in, long; lower 
bract 3-} by 3 in., cuneate-oblong, rounded at the tip with a minute 
bristle, slightly hairy ; bracteoles + in. long, linear-lanceolate ; sepals 
in. long, linear ; corolla $ in. long; capsule 4~% In. long, minutely 
hairy on the margins. Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. x. 64, 
Eastern Region: Tembuland; along river banks near Bazeia, 2000 ft., 
Bawr, 150! Natal ; Biggars Berg, Rehmann, 7100! Lorenzo Marques; Quintas, 
85! 
This species is very close to D. angolensis, 8. Moore, which has wider bracteoles. 
7. D. minor (C. B. Clarke); nearly glabrate except the ealyx; 
branches 5-7 in. long, slender ; leaves up to $ by 4 in., narrowed at 
either end, tip ubtuse ; petiole up to x in. long; spikelets in clusters 
of 38-5, axillary and on axillary peduncles 2 in. long; lower bract 
3 by +5-# in., broadly lanceolate, hardly aeute ; bracteoles + in. 
long, linear-lanceolate ; sepals less than % in. long, linear, minutely 
hairy ; corolla } in. long ; capsule ; in. long. 
Kaxanart Region: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Klipfontein, Burchell, 
2147! Bechuanaland; Kakwena Territory, 3500 ft., Holub! Transvaal, 
without precise locality, Hulud! 
Oxver CII. MYOPORINEZ. 
(By R. A. Rore.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular or nearly regular. Culyx inferior, 
5-partite or 5-loLed. Corolla gamopetalous ; tube short and some- 
what campanulate, or elongate and infundibuliform ; limb subequal, 
oblique or bilabiate, 5- (or rarely 6-) lobed ; lobes imbricate, the two 
posticous often exterior, sometimes deeply connate. Stamens 4, 
didynamous or subequal, rarely as many as the corolla-lobes, 
inserted on the corolla and alternating with its lobes, included 
or exserted ; filaments filiform or thickened at the base ; anthers 
normally 2-celled ; cells at first parallel, afterwards diverging from 
the confluent apex, dehiscing longitudinally. Disc hypogynous, 
