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SCROPHULARIAGE.*: (Hiei'n) 



[Nemesia. 



29. N. ligulata (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 ii. 20) ; au erect herb, auuual, usually simple, slender, glabrous 

 below, pilose above, sliiuing, 8-12 in. high ; stem obtusely quad- 

 rangular, smooth ; upper internodes long, the lower short ; leaves 

 opposite, the lower obovate, rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped at 

 the shortly petiolate base, subentire or denticulate, f-f in. long, 

 i-}; in. broad, the upper smaller, sublinear and sessile ; racemes 

 subcorymbose, several-tlowered, -^—2 in. long ; bracts mostly alternate, 

 sublinear, entire, xV^i ^"- ^'^"S > pedicels inserted in the axils of the 

 bracts, pilose, the lower ranging up to f in. long, the upper shorter^ 

 calyx-segments linear-oval, obtuse, pubetulous, yV^o' ^^' ^^"S "^ 

 flower, ranging up to | in. long in fruit; four upper coiolla-lobes 

 ollong, obtuse, J— ^ in. long ; lower lip about as long as the upper, 

 ~~^ in. long ; palate slightly bearded ; spur subfalcate, thickened at 

 the free end, ^-i in. long ; capsules f -f in. long, l-^ in. broad, 

 unequally rounded at the base, broadly notched at the apex ; valves 

 curved at the apex, obtusely pointed at the outer side. Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. x. 261. 



"Western Region -. Viinrliynsdorp Div. ; on karroo-like hills near Holle River, 

 below lOflO ft., Brege, 3t4fi<; ! Little Nuuiaqualaud ; without precise loculit)', 

 M. J. R. M. ill Uei b. Bolus, 6488 •partly ! 



Excepting the dilatation at the tip of the corolla-spuv, the characters scarcely 

 ditler from those of N. versicolor, E. Meyer, so far as specimens show in the 

 Lerbiirium ; there is a uiixrure of the two species under Bohus, t;488. 



30. N. cynanchifolia (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 21); 

 an ascending or ditiuse herb, annual, profusely branched, pallid, 

 6-24 in. high ; stem and branches letragonous, shortly pilose or 

 nearly glabrous, leafy ; leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 obtuse at the apex, nearly rounded at the base, sinuate-dentate or 

 remotely denticulate, spreading, petiolate, a-I^ in, lung, yV I ^^• 

 broad ; petioles ranging up to -| or \ in. long for the lower pairs of 

 leaves, those of the upper pairs gradually shorter, all the leaves more 

 or less petiolate ; racemes terminal, many- or several-flowered, sub- 

 corymbose or oblong, usually dense, very blunt, often umbellate- 

 corymbose at the top, 1-6 in. long ; bracts alternate, subopposite or 

 crowded, sessile, smaller than the leaves; pedicels slender, -J-1^ in. 

 long, pilose, the hairs short, slender and tipped with minute glands ; 

 calyx-segments ovate-linear or suboval, subobtuse at the apex, 

 puberulous, -jV-^- in. long ; corolla lilac-blue or purple; upper lip 

 • about {-| in. long, unequally 4-lobed ; lobes oblong and rounded at 

 the apex ; lower lip about ^-i in. long, rounded, emarginate ; 

 palate puberulous or shortly bearded; spur cylindrical, narrow, 

 obtuse, nearly straight, -i-i in. long;, capsules broadly oblong, 

 scarcely or but little narrowed near the apex, unequal and slightly 

 narrowed towards the base, |-| in. long, J-^ in. broad ; valves 

 glabrous, subtruncate at the apex, not or scarcely horned. Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. x. 262 ; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1879, xii. 136, //>. 22, 

 anrf 1892, xii. 276,^9. 47. 



