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sCROPHULARTACE-s: (Hiem). 



[Nemesia. 



pilose above, shining, simple or more or less branched from the base, 

 -J-l|- ft. high ; stem and branches quadrangular, smooth or nearly 

 so, stiflF, rather slender ; upper internodes exceeding the leaves ; 

 leaves opposite, ovate or lanceolate, or the uppermost sublinear, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded or very obtuse at the sessile 

 or subsessile base or the lower petiolate, denticulate or subentire, 

 ^-2 in. long, yV^ii^- broad ; petioles of the lower leaves ranginuf up 

 to ~ in. long; racemes terminal, oblong or subcorymbose, several- or 

 mauy-flowered, 2-8 in. long ; bracts alternate, smaller than the 

 leaves ; pedicels inserted in the asils of the bracts, ranging up to 

 about 1 in. long ; calyx-segments lanceolate-linear or linear, puberu- 

 lons, ciliolate, obtuse, ^-^ in. long • corolla varying in colour, yellow, 

 red and white ; uppermost lobes oblong, obtuse, i-i in. long, ^-} in. 

 broad, longer than the broad and emarginate lower lip ; palate thinly 

 bearded ; spur straight, conical, \ in. long ; capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 oblique and unequally narrowed at the base, -^— f in. long, \~^ in. 

 broad ; valves somewhat contracted at the top, inner curved parts 

 of the upper edges meeting at an obtuse angle, the outer parts shortly 

 apiculate, points diverging. Bentli. in DC. Prodr.x. 261. JHemesia, 

 Burchell, Trav. S. Aft. i. 225, note. 



South Africa : without locality, Auge (Nelson) ! Heri. Burmann! 



Central Rkgion : Ceies Div. ; at Yuk Itiver or near Yuk Eiver Hoogte, 

 Burchell, 1248 ! 



Western Region: Little Namaqualand; in rooky places at Silver Fontein, 

 2000-3000 ft., Drege, 7145! 7883! near Ookiep, 3200 ft., Bolus, Herh. Norm. 

 Aust.-Afr, 651! and witliout precise locality, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 57211 

 Vamhynsilorp Div.; Varsch Eiver, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8098! on lulls near 

 Miererikasteel, below 1000 ft., Drege, 3148 ! 



Kalahari Region: Trausvaal; Ronthosch, Behmann, 6006! 



27. N. gracilis (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 20) ; an 

 erect herb, slender, annual, simple or sparingly branched above, 

 thinly pubescent or subglabrous, 4|^-18 in. high^ stem tetragonous, 

 furrowed, striate ; internodes mostly exceeding the leaves ; leaves 

 opposite or the upper alternate, rather few, ovate-oblong, spathulate 

 or sublinear, denticulate, sessile or the lowest almost petiolate, obtuse 

 at the apex, narrowed or scarcely so at the base, f-1 in. long, 

 -gV-i in. broad ; racemes terminal, several- or many-flowered, dense 

 at the apex, lax below, 1-8 in. long or those of the lower branches 

 shorter ; bracts alternate, lanceolate or sublinear, small ; pedicels 

 very slender, ranging up to f in. long; calyx-segments ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, ^V-tV in. long ; corolla about I- in. long ; lips about -}-^ iu- 

 long, streaked ; lobes of the upper lip oval-oblong, yV-xV '^^- ^^"o ' 

 lower lip rounded; palate bearded; spur linear-oblong, blunt, 

 T^-i- in. long ; capsules broadly obovate, obcordate, broadly notched 

 and 2-horned at the apex, narrowed at the base, ■^\-~} in. long, 

 ^\ in. broad at the apex. Benth. in DO. Brodr. x. 1,62. 



Coast Region: Clanwllliam Div.; by the Olifants River and near Brak 

 Fontein, Ecklon, 33! in stony places near Olifants River, 500 ft., Schlechter, 

 4989 ! Vogel Fontein, Schlechter, 8511 ! on hills behind Piquiniers Kioof, 



