﻿180 scROPHULAiiiACE^ (Hiem). [Nemesia, 



16. N. piUchella (Sehlechter MS.) ; an erect or ascending herb, 

 annual, finely pilose or below glabrous, 4-15 in. high, simple or 

 loosely branched, shining; lower internodes short, upper longer 

 than the leaves ; stem and branches tetragonous, furrowed, rather 

 slender ; leaves mostly opposite, oval, ovate or lanceolate or the 

 upper sublinear, obtuse at the apex, subtruncate or shortly narrowed 

 at the base, sessile or subsessile or the basal shortly petiolate, 

 denticulate or subentire, |-1 in. long, |-|- in. broad ; racemes terminal, 

 subcorymbose or elongated and oblong, few- or many-flowered, 

 •|— ^- in. long ; bracts alternate, sublinear, smaller than the leaves, 

 sessile, glandular-puberulous, spreading or deflexed ; pedicels rather 

 slender, spreading or ascending, finely pilose, |^-| in. long ; ealyx- 

 segments narrowly oval-liaear, obtuse, i-^ in. long ; upper corolla- 

 lobes lanceolate-linear, obtuse, about f- f in. long, pallid, longer than 

 the lower lip ; palate subglabrous, with two orange-coloured 

 gibbosities; spur conical, obtuse, -g—i in. long, pallid; capsules 

 broadly ovate-oblong, subtruncate or broadly notched and sub- 

 emarginate at the apex, unequal and scarcely or quite roundpd at the 

 base, glabrous, l-}^ in. long, J—J in. broad, slightly narrowed a little 

 below the apex, not horned. 



Coast Region ; Clanwilliam Dlv. ; banks of tlie Olit'itiits River, 400 ft., 

 Sehlechter, 5028 ! in sandy places, near Clanwilliam, 30D ft., Bolus, 9064 ! ainong 

 hillB at Agteituiii, between Pukhuis and Doom River, 800 ft., Sehlechter, 

 10860 ! 



Centbal Region : Calvinia Div. ; Oorlogs Kloof, 2.'5O0 ft , ^r.hlechler, 10966 ! 

 GraaffReinet Div.; on the Karroo plain, near GraaiF Reinet 2600 ft.. Bolus, 

 18C8 ! 



Westeen Region: Vanrliynsdorp Div. ; Karree Bergen, 1800 ft., Sehlechter, 

 8264! Little Naniaqualaud Div. ; Riet Kloof, 'between Oaries and Springbjk> 

 2500 ft. (a form with linear leaves), Sehlechter, 11197 ! 



17. N. macroceras (Sehlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 176) ; an 

 erect herb, annual, nlender, simple or but little branched, J-1 ft. 

 high or rather more, leafy at the base, distantly leafy above ; stem 

 straight, nearly glabrous, shining ; lower leaves opposite, upper 

 alternating or opposite, patent or spreading, linear or lanceolate, 

 somewhat acute or obtuse, more or less distinctly dentate or denticu- 

 late ; lowest leaves subpetiolate, glabrous, ranging nearly up to 2^ in. 

 long by I in. broad ; uppermost leaves gradually passing into the 

 bracts; racemes loosely several- or many-flowered, elongating; de- 

 flexed or spreading bracts and elongating pedicels glandular-puberu- 

 lous ; calyx-segments oblong or lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, 

 glandular-puberulous, ^\~} in. long ; upper lip of the corolla 

 normally white ; lobes linear or oblong-linear, obtuse, equil, about 

 i-f in. long, scarcely ^ in. broad ; lower lip rounded, emarginate 

 at the apex, bigibbous at the base, about -} in. long, yellow ; spur 

 deflexed, cylindrical, very blunt at the apex, about } in. long, some- 

 what incurved at the tip; capsule obovate-oblong, broadly notched 

 at the apex, glabrous, J-i. in. long and broad, unequal at the nearly 

 rounded base, not horned. 



