﻿184 scROPHULARiACEiE (Hiern). [Nemesia. 



Central Region : Fraserbnrg Dir. ; between the Zak River and Kopjes 

 Fontein, Burchell, 1501 ! 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Clairmont and Van Reenens Pass, Kuntze. 



This is the A'emesia mentioned by Bwrchell, Trav. S. Ah. \. 286, note. 

 'N. florihunda, var. tenuior, Krauss in Flora, IMi, 83t, without description, is 

 unknown to me. 



Coast Region: Uniondale Div. ; Liiuge Kloof, iTrawss, 1617 ! 



23. N. versicolor (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 !Mt\g. ii. 20); an erect or ascending herb, annual, nearly glabrous 

 below, sligbtly pilose above, simple or branched from the base, 

 shining, 4-14 in. high ; stem and branches tetragonous, smooth or 

 ne.arly so ; upper internodes mostly exceeding the leaves ; leaves 

 opposite, ovate, oblong-lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse or rounded at 

 the apex, more or less narrowed to the sessile or subsessile base, or 

 in the case of the lower leaves almost petiolate, entire, toothed or 

 denticulate, -|-1| in. long and -g^^-f in. broad or rather larger; 

 racemes terminating the stem and branches, subcorymbose and 

 elongating, several- or many-flowered, 1-3 in. long ; bracts alternate, 

 -jL-i in. long ; pedicels inserted in the axils of the bracts, the lower 

 langmg np to nearly 1 in. long, the npper shorter ; calyx-segments 

 broadly linear, obtuse, puberulous, -^j-^ i^i- ^o^ig or in fruit about 

 \ in. long ; corolla variable in colour, either white and striate outside 

 or cinnabar-red, striate outside and sulphur-coloured on the throat or 

 sulphur-coloured and not striate ; the four upper corolla-lobes 

 oblong, i-i in. long, obtuse ; lower lip about as long as the upper, ^ in. 

 long ; palate somewhat leardetl or pubescent, bicallose ; spur incurved 

 or nearly straight, not thickened at the free end, ^i in. long; 

 capsules i— | in. long, i-i in. broad, unequally rounded at the base, 

 broadly notched at the apex ; valves curved at the apex, obtusely 

 pointed at the outer side. BentJi. in DC. Prodr. x. 261, not of 

 Drege in Linncea, xx. 197. 



Vae. /8, oxyceras (Benth. in Hook. I.e., name only) ; corolla deeper yellow; 

 spur more acute. Benth. in DC. I.e. 



South AiRicA : without locality, Orey .' 



Coast Region; Clanwilliam" Div. ; Zuur Fonfcein, 200 ft., ScJilecMer, 

 8520! by the Olifants River at Brak Fontein, Efifc/ow.' Malme.«bury Div.; ncsir 

 Hopt'field and by the road towards Saldanha Bay, Bachmann, &) \ ' 1402 \ 2089! 

 Saldanhn Bay, KcUon, 198 ! Piqi.otberg Div. ; at the foot of Piquetberjr Moun- 

 tains, 800-fcOO ft., Schlechter. 5217! Knysna Div.; between Melville and the 

 mouth of the Knysna River, Burchell, 5512 ! between Groene Valley and Zwart 

 Valley, Hurchell, 5670! 56 SO I 5681! Var. /8 : Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Kuagas 

 Eerg and between it and Heerelogemont, Drc(/e, 31466 ! 



Western Region -. Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Karree Bergen, 12O0 it. , Scidechier, 

 8305! Bitter Fontein, ]300 ft., Schhchier, 11043! Little Namaqnaland, near 

 t^ilver Fontein, iOOO ft., nreqe,3U7al 3147b! and without precise locality, 

 W. J. 11. M. in Herh. Bolus, 6488 paTtly ! 



24. N. psammophila (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 176) ; an 

 erect herb, animal, nearly glabrous below, somewhat pilose above, 

 minutely glandular, somewhat shining, slender, simple or branched 



