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at or near the base, 4-12 in. high ; stem tetragonoiis, furrowed, leafy 

 about the base, naked or sparingly leafy above ; basal branches 

 opposite, spreading, prostrate or ascending, tetragonous, moderately 

 leafy ; upper internodes exceeding the leaves ; radical leaves rosulate, 

 narrowly elliptical or oblanceolate, obtuse at the ap"x, tapering to the 

 base, membranous, entire, repand, denticulate or few-toothed, pale 

 green or subglaucous beneath, ^-1^ in. long, ^'^^-l in. broad ; petioles 

 ranging up to J^ in. long; cauline leaves similar or narrower, opjtosite, 

 sessile or shortly petiolate, ranging up to l} in. long; flowers race- 

 mose, several or rather numerous, |— ^ in. lung and broad ; racemes 

 terminal, comparatively dense at the corymbose top, lax below, mostly 

 1-2 in. long ; pedicels slender, spreading or erect-pitent, alternate, 

 singly arising from the axiis of the small narrowly linear bracts, 

 thinly glandular-pilose, ^~| in. long ; calyx-segments lanceolate-oval 

 or oval-oblong, obtuse, weakly trinerved, minvitely glandular^ spread- 

 ing, subequal, iV~8" '"• ^ong; corolla pale blue with an orange- 

 coloured throat; upper lip ^-| in. Ion?, obtusely 4-lobed, lobes 

 ovate or oblong ; lower lip quadrate-oblong, shortly excised at the 

 apex, about ^ in. long by ~ in. broad; throat minutely puberulous 

 ■within ; palate shortly bearded ; spur cylindric-conical, obtuse, 

 ^-f in. long, nearly straight or incurved about the terminal third ; 

 s'amens 4 ; anthers glabrous ; filaments minutely glandular-puberu- 

 lous ; capsules oblang, glnbrous, excised at the apex, nearly rounded 

 at the base, nearly i in. long ; valves with their outer top corners 

 diverging and apiculate. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliatn Div. ; in sandy places near Zeekoe Vley, 600 ft., 

 f^ehUchler, 8507 ! on the banks of rivers and in sandy soil near water, near the 

 village of Cluuwilliain, Leipoldt in Herb. Bolus, 9375 ! 



25. N. Maxii (Hiern) ; an erect herb, annual, shining, simple or 

 nearly so, subglabrous, 2^-5 in. high; stem rather slender, furrowed, 

 minutely glandular-pilose, leafy near the base ; middle internodes 

 exceeding the leaves ; leaves opposite, lanceolate or the basal oval, 

 obtuse at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, sessile or sub- 

 sessile or the basal almost petiolate, deniiculate-repaiid, membranous, 

 minutely glandular-papiliose, |-1 in. long, y} in. broad ; racemes 

 terminal, few- or several-flowered, rather lax, corymbose or rounded, 

 1-1-i- in. long ; bracts .alternate, ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, entire, 

 i-i in. long ; pedicels ranging up to } in. long; flowers about I in. 

 long ; calyx-segments linear-oval, pilose, J—J- in. long ; upper corolla- 

 Hp purplish, i in. long, lobes oblong, |- in. long ; lower lip purple, 

 i in. long, convex, broad, bigibbous, emargiiiate ; gibbosities yellow ; 

 palate shortly bearded ; spur conical, obtuse, -} in. long, yellow ; 

 young capsule excised at the ai^ex, oval, unequally rounded at the 

 base, i- in. long, ^^ in. broad. 



Western Region : Little Bushmansland ; at Keuzabies, Max Schlechter, 81! 



26. N. anisocarpa (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. ii. 19); an erect or ascending herb, annual, glabrous below, 



