﻿182 SCR0PHULAEIACEJ3 (Hiem). [Nemesla. 



or sublinear, subacute, xV^i ^^- ^^ng ; corolla yellow ; the upper lip 

 about i-i in. long ; lobes ovate, ^-^ in. long, very obtuse, scarcely 

 exceeding the lower lip ; palate subglabrous ; spur straight, cylin- 

 drical, narrow, obtuse, about -^-^ in. long ; capsules oblong, glabrous or 

 nearly so, subtruncate at the apex, unequal and nearly rounded at 

 the base, i-f in. long, ^-^ in. broad. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 

 263. 



Western Region : Little Namaqnaland ; on hills and by tbe Orange River, 

 rear Verleptpram, bflow 1000 ft., Dre^e, 3142a ! 3142i ! in sandy places near 

 PortNolloth, 50ft., Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 650! 



20. N. glaucescens (Hiern) ; an erect herb, annual, slender, 

 glauceacent, simple or nearly so, glabrous below, sparingly glandular- 

 pilose above, 6-10 in. high ; stem slender, tetragonous, furrowed ; 

 internodes mostly longer than the leaves ; leaves opposite, oblong- 

 lanceolate or sublinear or the lower oval, obtuse or rounded at the 

 apex, nearly rounded at the base, membranous, glabrous, distantly 

 denticulate or very nearly entire, sessile or subsessile or the lower 

 shortly petiolate, f-1^ in. long, ^\y-f in. broad ; racemes terminal, 

 few-flowered, lax ; bracts lanceolate-linear, alternate, subentire, 

 smaller than the leaves; common peduncle 1-3 in. long, slender; 

 pedicels axillary to the bracts, very slender, thinly glandular-pilose, 

 i-f in. long ; calyx-segments linear-elliptic, obtuse or nearly so, 

 glandu^lar-puberulous, ^-^ in, long ; corolla glabrous, pallid, about 

 -| in. long ; upper lip ^-f in. long ; lobes oblong, rounded at the 

 apex, about i in. long and i-| in. broad ; lower lip rounded and 

 emarginate at the apex, about as long as the upper ; palate glabrous ; 

 spur conical-prolonged, straight, ^-^ in. long, obtuse or scarcely 

 acute. 



Westeen Eegion : Little Namaqualand; at Modderfontein, Whitehead ! 



21. N. aflBnis (Benth, in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 21, excl. /3 

 and y) ; an erect herb, annual, glabrous below, puberulous above, 

 branched from the base, 4-18 in. high ; stem and branches tetrago- 

 nous, smooth or nearly so, leafy below ; leaves mostly opposite, 

 sometimes fasciculate-verticillate, oblong, lanceolate or linear, obtuse 

 at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the subsessile base or the lower 

 shortly petiolate, mostly denticulate, |-1^ in. long, 2V~i ^°- ^^^^'^^ 

 glabrous; racemes terminal, oblong, few- or many-flowered, 1-2 in. 

 hmg ; bracts alternate, sessile, mostly smaller than the leaves ; 

 pedicels rather slender, inserted in the axils of the bracts, I—} in- 

 long ; calyx-segments narrowly elliptical or sublinear, nearly gla- 

 brous, j'o-i ^^- loJ^gj obtuse ; upper corolla-lobes oblong, rounded at 

 the apex, i-^ in. long ; lower lip about as long as the upper ; palate 

 bearded with very slender hairs ; spur conical, prolonged, obtuse, 

 straight or nearly so, ^-^ in. long ; capsules urceolate oblong, some- 

 what contracted at the apex, unequally rounded or obtusely narrowed 

 at the base, l-\ in. long, 1.-1- in. broad ; valves subtruncate, apex 

 nearly straight, shortly rounded on the inside edge, scarcely apiculate 



