﻿Neviesia.] scrophulaeiacej5 (Hiern). 183 



and very shortly rounded about the outer edge, making a very 

 obtuse angle with tliat of the other valve. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x, 

 262. 



South Africa: without locality, Farrei/ / Oldenburg! 



CoASi IIegion : Ciiinwilluim Div. ; in sandy places, near Alexanders Hoek, 

 SdilecMer, 5142! on hills at Agtertuln, 800 ft., Sohlechter, 10857! Olifanis 

 River, 400 ft., Schlechter, 5017 1 Tulbagh Div. ; Saron, 800 ft., Schlechter, 

 10640! CiipeDiv.; near Go\^st^Antm, JScklon ^■^ Zeylier I hills near Kamps Bav, 

 Wilms, 3491! Galpin, 4363! Cape Flats, Pappe! Zeyher, 1270! Feilderi ! 

 Simons Bay, Wright! on the sea-shore, near Simonstown, Schlechter, 1194! 

 Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Ecklon ^ Zeyher, VdW ! Uitenhage 

 Div.; Uitenhiige, Zei/her, 139! Kiversdale Div. j near Milkwood Fontein, 

 600 ft., Galpin, 4361 ! 



Westeen Region: Little Namaqnaland ; without precise locality, Scully, 

 64! Great Namaqualand ; Tiras and Bell I Eisib, Schinz, 7! lower district of 

 the Orange River, Steingrover, 19 ! 



Also in the tropical part of Great Namaqualand. 



^ 22. N. floribunda (Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1833) ; an 

 erect herb, annual, glabrous below, somewhat pilose above, shining, 

 pallid, branched from the base or nearly simple, 6-15 in. high; 

 stf^m and branches tetragonous, smooth ; upper internodes rather 

 longer than the leaves ; leaves opposite, ovate or oval or the upper- 

 most sublanceolate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, subtruncate at 

 the sessile or subsessile base or the lower shortly petiolate, glabrous, 

 moderately dentate or denticulate or subentire, i-lf in. long, -^i~a 

 in. broad ; racemes rather lax, subcorymbose or oblong, several- or 

 many-flowered, 1-5 in. long; bracts alternate, mostly smaller than 

 the leaves, sessile ; pedicels inserted in the axils of the bracts, 

 i-f in. long, slender, shortly pilose ; calyx-segments broadly linear 

 or somewhat lanceolate, obtuse, puberulous, yV"! ^^- ^o"S ' corolla 

 whitish ; upper corolla-lobes oblong, rounded at the apex, -J— i in. 

 long ; lower lip bilobed, i-| in. long ; mouth closed ; palate convex, 

 shortly bearded ; spur conical-prolonged, obtuse, nearly straight, 

 sparingly pilose or nearly glabrous, I in. long ; capsules obovate- 

 oblong, rather obliquely ovoid at the base, broadly notched and not 

 horned at the apex, each valve obliquely truncate at the apex, i-^- in. 

 long. Linncea, x. Litt. Ber. 76; Benth. in LindL Bot. Beg. 1838, 

 t. 39 ; Benth. in DO. Prodr. x. 262 ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834 ; 

 O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 237. JV. affinis, Berith. in Hook. 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 21, var. /3 and var. y only; E. Meyer in Drege, 

 Zwei Pflanzengeocjr. Documente, 133. 



South Africa : cultivated specimens ! 



Coast RRamN- O.^np Div • Devils M 



ouuiH AFRICA : cnitivatea specimens ; 



Coast Region: Cape Div.; Devils Mountain, 1000 ft., Krauss, IQX^. (ex 

 Hochstetter). Riversdale Div. ; near Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6729 ! Uiten- 

 hag« Div. ; near Enon, below oOO ft., Drege, 8D7c ! Uitenhage, Zeijher ! near the 

 2;>variko|)S River, Zeyher, 3484. Port Elizabeth Div.; Algoa Bay, Forhes ! 

 Albany Div.; Fish River Heights, jf/»f?o/i .' near Grahanistown, MacOwan, 

 796 partly! Cathcart Div.; Cathcart, Kvntze; Stutterhcim Div.; Toise 

 ■Hiver Station, Kuntze ; Briti^^h Kaffraria, Cooptr, 162 I 



