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excised, unequal and round at the base, glabrous, l-^ in, long, 

 •i-i in. broad; valves with diverging scarcely horned tips; seeds 

 suborbicular, the body vemiculose-appendiculate, wings snowy- 

 white. 



Coast liEoiON : Worcester Div. ; on stony mountains behiuJ Bains Kloof, 

 2500 ft., Schlechter, 9117 ! 



10. N. brevicalcarata (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii, 174) ; 

 an ascending undershrub, perennial, slender, branched ; branches 

 tetragonous, glabrous ; internodes mostly longer than the leaves ; 

 leaves opposite, lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, acute at the apex, 

 wedge-shaped or nearly rounded at the base, sharply few-toothed, 

 glabrous on both faces, erect-patent, shortly petiolate or sessile, i- J in. 

 long, i—i in. broad ; racemes lax, several-flowered; rhachis glandular- 

 puberulous ; pedicels erect-patent, filiform, glandular-puberu'ous or 

 pilose, i-f in. long; bracts minute, patent or spreading, viscid- 

 puberulous ; calyx-segments linear or lanceolate-linear, subacute, 

 densely glandular-puberulous, subdivaricate, xV~tV i"- ^'^^E > corolla 

 glabrous ; lobes of the upper lip white, subequal, erect, rounded, 

 -^0-6 ^"- long; lower lip white, rounded-oblong, shortly excised at 

 the apex, about as long as the upper ; throat inflated, puberalous, 

 dilated at the base into a very obtuse pale violet pouch ; pouch or 

 spur minute, nipple-like, scarcely -^j in. long ; capsule oblong, 

 excised at the apex, rounded at the base, glabrous, erect-patent, } in. 

 1*^"") i- in. broad ; valves shortly horned ; seeds pale brown, J^ i". 

 broad, body oblong and densely verrucose, the winged part twice the 

 length of the body. 



Coast Eegion : Worcester Di v. ; on the rocky parts of mountains behind 

 Bains Kloof, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 9103 ! 



11. N. barbata (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. ]Mag ii. ID) ; an 

 erect or ascending herb, annual, nearly glabrous, shining, 5-20 in. 

 high, branched from the base or simple, somewhat slender ; stem and 

 branches leafy below, quadrangular, angles slightly scabrid or smooth ; 

 leaves opposite, ovate or oval or the upper lameolate, obtuse at the 

 apex, Eubtruncate or very obtuse at the sessile or subse^sile amplexi- 

 caul base, or in the case of the lower leaves shortly petiolate, 

 coarsely dentate or the lower nearly entire, l-l', in. long, J-;] in. 

 broad; racemes terminal, pilose, 2-9-flowered, 1-1 in. long, corym- 

 bose or oblong ; bracts alternate, smaller than the leaves : pedicels in 

 the axils of the bracts, ranging up to 1],- lin, long; calyx-segraenta 

 linear or narrowly oval, obtuse, hispid-pilose, -^-| in. long ; corolla 

 l-l in. long ; the upper lip 4-lobed, ^-i in. long, white outside, 

 inside blue above with a white margin and purple-stnate below; 

 lobes semi-elliptical, i-^ in. long, yV-rV i"- ^™^^' r^nnded at the 

 apex ; lower lip broadly oblong, widened towards the rounded entire 

 or emarginate apex, keeled on the upper half, blue, i-^ in, long ; 

 lower part or claw white, striped with red outside, geniculate and 

 strongly bearded inside, l-} in. broad; spur conical, straight, J-} in. 



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