﻿178 SCEOPHULAEIACEJJ (Hiern). [Nemesia. 



long, i-T^ in. broad, obtuse, striped with purple lines, looking as if 

 made up of the combination of two horns; capsule urceolate or 

 ovoid-oblong, |-i in. long, i— ^- in. broad, apices of the valves form- 

 ing an obtuse an.uie with diverging^ apiculi. Krauss in Flora, 1844, 

 834 ; BentJi. in DC. Prodr. x. 261. Antirrhinum barbatum, Thunh. 

 Prodr. 105, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 482. 



South Africa : without locality, Auge ! Forbes ! Alexander (Prior) ! Masson I 

 Zeylier ! 



Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. ; Brak Fontein, Zeyher! Malmeshury 

 Div.; Laauws Kloof, netir Greene Kloof (Mamre), below 1000 ft., Dreqe, 7831a! 

 on hills, near Groene Kloof, Thunh -. rg ! 400 fl., Bolus, 4303! Saldanlia Bay, 

 Yorlce ! Paarl Div.; Paavl Mountain, in stony and rocky places, Drege ! sandy 

 jrround at Paarl, Bunbury, 1591 Cape Div.; on the Flats near Constantia, 

 Sxail.&s^-l§^^- Camp ground, Wolley Dod, 155 ! Signal Hill, Wolley Dad. 156! 

 near Cape Town, Pappe.' Thunherg / Bolus,! iift] Paradise, Hari'ej/, £03 ! 520! 

 Lion Mountain. Ecklon, 972! Simons Buy, Wright, 608! 616! Stellenbosch 

 Div.; Stellenboseh, Sandirscn, 974! Caledon Div., Zwart Berg, EcMon! 

 Swellendain Div, j between Hessaquas Kloof and Breede River, Zeyher, 3483 ! 



iV. harhata, var. minor, Schinz in Verh. Bat. Brandeni. xxx'i. 189, which is 

 characterized by smaller capsules and by the wings on the seeds being nearly as 

 long as the longitudinal axis of the body of the seed, is unknown to me. It 

 is a native of Great Namaqualand, between Aus and Tiras, collector not 

 mentioned. 



12. N. grandiflora (Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 473) ; an erect 

 herb, nearly glabrous, simple or branched, 12-20 in. high ; root- 

 leaves oblong, wedge-shaped at the base, f in. long, ^ i". bro^d ; 

 petioles f in. long ; stem-leaves linear, few-toothed, sessile, f-'2 in. 

 long, -g^j-i in. broad, or smaller; floral leaves bract-like, -j\-l in- 

 long; inflorescence glandular; calyx-segments lanceolate-linear, 

 glandular, i in. long; upper corolla-lobes oblong, |~i in. long, ^-^ va.- 

 broad ; lower lip very ample, scarcely emarginate, f-i in. long, f in. 

 broad; throat bearded; palate shaggy; spur short, conical, scarcely 

 i in. long ; capsule ovate, somewhat contracted at the apex with two 

 short horns, |-i in. long, |-i in. broad. 



Coast Region : Malmesbury Div. ; neighbourhood of Hopefield, Bachmann, 

 1407, 1408, 2236. 



13. N. euryceras (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 175) ; an 

 erect herb, annual, simple or branched chiefly at the base, tender, 

 5-8 in. high ; branches erect or ascending, glabrous ; internodes 

 mostly exceeding the leaves ; leaves opposite ; the lower spathulate- 

 elliptic, obtuse at the apex, attenuate afc the base into the petiole, 

 f-li^ in. long, i-| in. broad, entire or obscurely dentate; upper 

 leaves sessile or subsessile, lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse at both 

 ends, gradually shoiter ; racemes lax, several-flowered; pedicels 

 patent or erect -patent, filiform, very slender, i-^ in. long ; bracts 

 alternate, ovate, obtuse, spreading, ^\~-l- in. long, thinly glandular- 

 puberulous or nearly glabrous ; calyx-segments narrowly oval-ovate, 

 scarcely acute or subobtuse, glandular-puberulous, ^V-a i^- ^°"° ' 

 corolla pale violet above, darker at the throat ; two uppermost lobes 

 erect, linear-ligulate, obtuse, J 1 in. long; two lateral lobes some- 



