﻿Nemesia.] scrophulariacej: (Hiern). 175 



Western Region: Little Namaqualand ; Noagas, 1000-2000 ft., Drege, 

 3143! in sandy places, near Port NoUoth, 200 ft., Bolus, 6i9! Brak Fontein, 

 Herb. Bonder ! 



6. N. hastata (Benth. in DO. Prodr. x. 260) ; herbaceous, nearly 

 glabrous ; stem or branches slender, ascending or erect, quad- 

 rangular, 5-8 in. long, rather leafy below ; leaves opposite, linear, 

 obtuse at the apex, hastate at the shortly petiolate base, revolute on 

 the entire or rarely slightly toothed margin, \-l- in. long ; racemes 

 terminal, few-flowered, short ; bracts ovate, spreading, sessile, -^-^ in. 

 long; pedicels usually 3, at or near the apex of the peduncle, slender, 

 puberulous, \-\ in. long, the lower opposite; common peduncle 

 slender, ]i-3-^- in. long ; calyx-segments lanceolate or ovate, shortly 

 puberulous, yV in. long ; corolla handsome, very beautif ally scarlet, 

 •|-f in. broad, not bearded ; pouch very short, broad ; upper lip 

 deeply 4-lobed ; lobes rounded, about ~ in. long ; lower lip about as 

 long as the upper ; anthers cohering ; ovary ovoid. 



Central Eegion : Middelburg Dlv. ; in stony grassy places by the road- 

 side, on the southern side of Naauw Toort, Burchell, 2783 ! 



7. BT. lucida (Benfch, in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 19) ; an erect 

 or ascending herb, annual, nearly glabrous, shining, ^1^ ft. high, 

 simple or branched from the base, slender; branches ascending (.r 

 decumbent, more or less leafy below and naked above; leaves 

 opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute at the 

 apex, subcordate, subtruneate or very obtuse at the shortly petiolate 

 or subsessile base, more or less coarsely serrate-dentate, membranous 

 or slightly fleshy, i-l| in. long, ^-f in. broad; racemes oblong, 

 terminating the stem and branches, lax, few- or several-flowered, 

 2-6 in. long ; bracts alternate, linear or lanceolate, entire, denticu- 

 late or rarely pinnatifid, |-f in. long, sessile ; common peduncles 

 ranging up to 7 in. long, and pedicels to l-i in. ; calyx-segments 

 linear or narrowly oval, obtuse, ^^-i in. long, nerved, minutely 

 gland ular-puberulous ; corolla ^-^ in. long and broad, not bearded, 

 white or coloured ; lobes rounded, ^ in. long ; pouch blunt or 

 1-2-papillate at the apex, about ^V ^°- ^^"o ^^^ broad ; capsule 

 obo void-oblong or oval-oblong, broad with an obtuse-angled notch at 

 the apex, narrowed towards the base, i-| in. long, J— J- in. broad; 

 valves with their apiculate tips widely diverging. Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 260. iV. hicornis, Sieb. Fl. Cap. 254, ex Presl^ Bot. 

 BemerJc. 91 ; not of Per soon. 



South Africa : withont localitv, Sieher ! Rogers ! 



Coast Kegion: Cape Div.; Lower part of Table Moantain, EcUon, 576! 

 Bolus, 7960! slopes near Constautia, Ecklon, 371! slopes near Fernwood, 

 Wolley Dod, 157! Red Hill, Wolley Bod, 1544! Orange Kloof, Wolley Dad, 

 2689 1 The Glen, Groot Schnur, Wolley Dod, 3072! lower slopes of Skeleton 

 Ravine, Wolley Dod, 2932 ! Pauls Berg, JFoUey Dod, 3014, ! 



8. N. Leipoldtii (Hiern) ; an annual herb, erect, nearly glabrous, 

 minutely glandular, shining, simple or sparingly branched, somewhat 



