﻿Nemesia.'] scROPHULAEiACEiB (Hiern). 173 



somewhat dentate, the cauline sessile, dentate and lanceolate or the 

 uppermost linear ; racemes 2-4 in. long, terminal, glandular-pilose, 

 subcorymbose in flower, compact, elongating after the fall of the 

 corolla ; bracts sublinear, entire or toothed, glandular-pilose, spread- 

 'og» i~i io- long ; pedicels ranging up to li in. long ; calyx-segments 

 linear, obtuse, pilose, jr-^ in. long, spreading in flower, erect in fruit ; 

 corolla bilabiate, very various in colour from different shades of 

 yellow or purple to white, often veined and marked with purple on 

 the outside ; throat with dusky points on a yellow ground ; upper 

 lip 4-cleft, :^— f in. long, |— 1 in. broad, glabrous within ; lobes 

 rounded ; lower lip |-1^ in. broad, notched at the apex, bearded 

 within especially towards the base ; pouch short, broad, slightly 

 bifoveolate ; capsule roundly oval, \-^ in. long ; valves diverging at 

 the apex, obliquely truncate along curved lines including a large 

 angle; seeds numerous, tuberculate, winged. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 

 X. 260; N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 269, fig. 48; Hook, 

 f. in Bot. 3Iag. t. 111^. Antirrhinum strumosum, Herb. Banks, ex 

 Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 18. N. strumosa, var. Suttoni, 

 Journ. Hort. 1892, ser. 3, xxv. 107, fig. 16. 



South Africa: without locality, Masson! Thunherg! Thorn J Herh. Bur- 

 mann .' and cultivated specimens ! 



Coast Region: Malmesbury DIv. ; Drie Fontein, Zeyher, 1269! in sandy 

 places at and near Groene Kloof (Mami-e), below 500 i\., Drege ! Ecklon, fi8 ! 

 249 ! Pappe ! Yorke, 43 ! between Groene Kloof and Saldaiiha Bay, Dreje, 

 7882! 



3. N. Guthriei (Hiern) ; an erect herb, annual, about 1 ft. high, 

 glabrous below, glandular-pilose above, sparingly branched ; stem 

 leafy at the base, obtusely quadrangular below, somewhat flexuous, 

 shining, towards the apex tetragonou^i, wiry ; branches rather 

 slender, patent, or ascending, interhodes mostly exceeding the leaves ; 

 leaves opposite or subopposite, ovate, oval or lanceolate or the basal 

 obovate, obtuse or subacute at the apex, obtuse or more or less 

 narrowed at the base, sessile or subsessile or the basal tapering 

 downwards, more or less strongly toothed except the denticulate 

 basal ones, f-l^ in. long, |-i in. broad, subglabrous, minutely 

 glandular-papillose; flowers about i in. long; racemes terminal, 

 minutely pilose, rather dense, 2^ in. long in fruit, shorter in flower, 

 several- or many-flowered, corymbose or oval; bracts alternate, 

 lanceolate, entire or with few teeth, sessile, ^-| in. long ; pedicels 

 l—l in. long; calyx-segments linear-oval or -oblong, obtuse, 

 glandular-pilose, |-i in. long ; corolla pallid, aboat J in. broad, saccate 

 at the base ; lips about -} in. long ; upper lobes ovate-oblong, about 

 ^V in. long ; lower lip rounded, about | in. broad ; palate bearded ; 

 pouch about ^V in. broad and deep, rounded ; capsule obliquely 

 ovoid, broadly notched at the apex, a Httle contracted near the apex, 

 unequally narrowed towards the base, not horned, }-^ in. long, 

 ■|— ^ in. broad. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; in dry sandy places at Raapenburg, near Mow- 

 bray, 60 ft., Guthrie, 1221 1 



