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what shorter, erect-patent ; lower lip subquad rate-oblong, rounded at 

 the apex, sulphur-3'ellow, scarcely shorter than the upper, about -} in. 

 long ; spur conical, subacute, somewhat incurved, sulphur-yellow, 

 glabrous outside, -^-^ in. long, inside puberulous on the very open 

 throat at the base of the lower lip ; capsules ovoid-oblong, sub- 

 truncate and excised at the apex, unequal and nearly rounded at the 

 base, glabrous, a little contracted below the apex, not or scarcely 

 horned, |-| in. long, }-f in. broad. 



Westebk Region : Little Namaqualand ; I'us, among hills, near the Orange 

 Eiver, Schlechter, 11414! Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; in sandy places near the Zout 

 River, 450 ft., Schlechter, 8126 ! 



14. N. micrantha (Hiern) ; a shining herb, annual, subglabrous, 

 densely branched from the base, about 5 in. high ; lower branches 

 decumbent, ascending, upper erect or suberect, all leafy ; leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse or subapiculate at the apex, 

 somewhat narrowed at the sessile or subsessile somewhat clasping 

 base, entire or with a few teeth, -i—l|- in. long, Jg-i in. broad; 

 racemes terminal, several-flowered, -|— 2 in. long ; pedicels slender, 

 -|-f in. long ; bracts sublinear, mostly alternate, smaller than the 

 leaves; flowers about |^ in. long; calyx-segments lanceolate or sub- 

 linear, obtuse, minutely glandular-pilose ; corolla-lips about i in. 

 long; upper lobes about i in, long, broadly lioear; lower lip 

 narrow ; palate weakly bearded ; spur linear from a broader base, 

 iV i>i- long, blunt. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; Hout Bay fisheries, on a small grassy mound 

 towards the further end of a dripping rock, where the water forms a small pool ; 

 one plant only seen, Oct. 9th, 1897, Wolley Dod, 3063 ! 



15. N. Cheiranthns (E. Meyer ox Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. ii. 19); an erect herb, annual, glabrous below, finely pilose 

 above, shining, simple or not much branched, slender, about a foot 

 high; stem quadrangular, smooth or nearly so; upper internodes 

 exceeding the leaves ; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong or the upper 

 lanceolate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded and amplexicaul 

 at the sessile base or the lower shortly petiolate, subentire or denticu- 

 late, |-li in. long, tV-I in. broad ; racemes terminal, 1-^—7 in. long, 

 corymbose or oblong, rather lax, several-flowered ; bracts alternate, 

 smaller and narrower than the leaves ; pedicels in the axils of the 

 bracts, ranging up to 1^ in. long ; calyx-segments linear-lanceolate or 

 linear, obtuse, finely pilose, xVi i^. long ; uppermost corolla-lobes 

 linear-lanceolate or linear, acute, about |-f in. long, about -^ in. 

 broad; lateral lobes i in. long; lower lip of the corolla broad, 

 rounded, emarginate, shorter than the upper ; palate bearded ; spur 

 conical, straight, |-i in. long ; capsule not known. Benth. in DC. 

 Prod?: X. 261. 



Coast Region : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; rocky places on Knagas Berg, 1000- 

 1500 ft., Drege, 3149 ! Clanwilliam Div. ; near the Olilants River aud 

 Brackfontein, Ecklon ! 



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