﻿JSfemesia.] sCROPHULAEiACBiG (Hiern). 187 



700 ft., ScWechUr, 10749 ! SweUendam Div. ; mountain ridges along the lower 

 part of Zonder ELiide River, Zeyher, 3482 ! 



Distinguished with difficulty from N. parvifiora, Benth., by the shape of the 

 fruit. 



28. N. bicornis (Pers. Syn. ii. 159) ; an erect or ascending 

 herb, annual, sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous at least below, 

 shining, simple or branched from the base or upwards, -1-2 ft. 

 high ; stem and branches quadrangular, smooth ; upper iuternodes 

 of the flowering stems and branches exceeding the leaves ; leaves 

 mostly opposite, sometimes fasciculate-verticilkte, oval, ovate, lan- 

 ceolate or sublinear, obtuse at the apex, obtuse at the subamplexi- 

 caul sessile base or the lower obtusely narrowed and shortly petiolate, 

 toothed, often strongly so, glabrous or somewhat pilose, -^—2 in. long, 

 4^-1 in. broad ; petioles short or obsolete or ranging up to |- in. long ; 

 racemes terminating the stem and branches, subcorymbose or 

 elongated, many-flowered, 1-14 in. long; bracts alternate, mostly 

 smaller than the leaves ; pedicels slender, mostly pubescent or pilose 

 and ~1 in. long ; flowers white and striped with coloured lines 

 outside ; calyx-segments oblong or narrowly ovate-oval, obtuse, 

 puberulous, more or less spreading, yV-i in. long in flower, ^-~\ in. 

 long in fruit ; upper corolla-lobes ovate-oblong or oval-oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, ^-i in. long, ^Vi i"- hroad ; lower lip rounded, 

 bifid, i-i in, long ; palate bearded, bicallose ; spur linear, obtuse, 

 straight, i— i- in. long ; filaments white ; anthers yellow ; capsule 

 obcordate, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, with diverging 

 points or short horns at the outer sides of the curved tops of the 

 valves, -}-f in. long and broad. Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 ii. 20 ; and in DC. Prodr. x. 262 ; not ufSieh. Aniirrlmmm Income, 

 Linn. Amcen. Acad. vi. 88 ; Thunh. Hort. Upsal. Plant, cult. 1803, 

 34, Thunb. Prodr. 105, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 482. A. capense, 

 Burm.f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 16; not of Thunb. J^. versicolor, Brege 

 in Linncea xx. 197, not of E. Meyer. N. biennis, Dri'ge, ZweiPflan- 

 zengeogr, Documente, 107. — Linaria foliis copiosis oblongis dentatis, 

 capsnla corniculata reflexa, Burm. Bar. Afr. PI. 211, t. 75, Jig. 3 

 (1738). Linaria Dracocephali folio, Petiv. Mus. Pet. 40, n. 430 

 (31 Aug. 1699); Herb. Petiver. in Herb. Sloan, vol. cclvi. fol. 

 63. 



South Africa: without locality, Ifasson .' Herh. Burmann! Grey! Pappe! 

 Forster ! 



Coast Region : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; on sand-bills at Ebenezar, below 500 ft., 

 Brege, 3142c! Wind Hoek, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8335! Clanwilliam Div.; 

 between Jaklials Elver and Heerelogemeut, Drege, 3816 ! Malme>bnry Div. ; 

 Zwartlaud, Thunherg ! Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, Zegher, 1272 ! Bolug, 3722 ! 

 sand-flats between Tyger Berg and Blue Berg, below SCO ft., Drege! Camp 

 ground, Wolley Dod,'lo2 I near Diep River, WoUey Bod, 1108 ! near and beyond 

 Siuionstown, Wolley Bod, 153 ! 424 ! Schlechter, 1194 ! near Cape Town and 

 between it and the Drakeusteen Mountains, Thunherg ! 



This is a variable species and difficult to distinguish from its allies ; there are 

 twelve sheets so classed in Thuuberg's herbarium. 



