﻿Nemesia.] scKOPiiuLARiACEyE (Hiern). 189 



South Africa : without locality, Krehs, 237 (c,v Prcd.). 



Coast Region: Worcester Div.; Hex River Kloof, 100:?-2000 ft., Dreje, 

 7880c ! Stoekenstrom Div. ; Kat Berg, 4000-5000 ft., Dreje, 78806 ! 



CKNtHAt, Region : Somerset Div. ; ou a plain at the foot of Boscli Rerj^, 

 220a fr., MacOivan, 7£)6 partly! Gniiiff Reiiiet Div,; in rooky places on tlio 

 «neeuvvberg Range, 4000-5000 (t., Dm/e, 7880a! Karoo-Iiko plain at Kmid 

 P'outein, near (iraaff Reiuet, 2700 ft., Bclux, 769 ! MurrHyhlmnr Div.; iu moun- 

 tain valleys at Poortje, uenr Murraysburg, 4000 ft., Bohia, 2056! 



Kalahari Region: Trausvaal; on the Hooge Veld at Stiuuierton, Reh- 

 mann, 6786 ! 



Eastkrn REfltON: Teinbuland ; Bazeia Mountain. 4000 ft., Baur, 512! East 

 Griquuland ; mountain-sides about Clydesdale, 3000 ft., Tijson, 3l')6! Natal; 

 Inauda, Wood, 141! in shadv places near Durban, 120 fi., Wood, 40 ! and 

 without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders ! 



31. N. petiolina (Hiern) ; an erect or ascending herb, apparently 

 annua], shortly pubescent or glandular-pilose at least towards the 

 apex, shining, divaricately branched from the base upwards, about 

 1—1.} ft. high ; stem and branches tetragonous, slemler, furrowed or 

 striate ; glands minute ; several internodes longer than the leave;?, 

 the upper shorter ; leaves oppo.site, ovate or lanceolate, acute or 

 obtuse and minutely apiculate, shortly narrowed or subobtuse or sub- 

 tiuncate at the base, submembranous, glabrous or more or less pilose, 

 sparingly glandular, strongly serrate-dentate, petiolate, ;^-l in. long, 

 sometimes a little oblique, Jjj-^ in. broad; petioles ranging up to 

 6" or i in. long, glabrous or glandular-pilose; racemes termin«l, 

 many- or few -flowered, lax or rather dense, bracteate or leafy, 

 1-12 in. long, glandular-pilose ; bracts alternate or the lower 

 opposite, lanceolate or subulate, acute, glandular-pilose, entire or 

 few-toothed, sessile or subsessile, -^- } in. long, the lower leaf-like ; 

 pedicels or peduncles rather slender, spreading or ascending, bwcteate 

 or leafy only at the base, -J— ^- in. long ; calyx-segments lanceolate or 

 fublinaar, acute or subacute, entire, glandulai'-pilose, J-J in. long; 

 corolla white, about ^— J in. long, minutely L'hndular-puberulent out- 

 side, thinly membranous; lips about .[-^ in. long: lobe.«i of the 

 upper lip oval or shortly oblong, rounded at the apex, i ,' in. long, 

 lower lip about ] in. broad; spur conical, together witli the tube 

 l~\ in. long, blunt ; palate shortly glandular-bi-ar-ifd ; capsule 

 oblong, subtruncate or very broadly excised at the a[)ex, unequal and 

 nearly rounded at the base, l-l in. long, {l in. broad, slightly 

 narrowed below the apex, not or somewhat horned at the apex. 

 Nemesia, Burcliell, Trav. S. A/r. i. 341 w/ie, 544 note. 



Central Region; Ceres Div.; in shadv rocky places at the foot of the 

 Skurfdebergen near Ceres. 1700 ft., Bolus, 7mH'. 



Kai,.\hari ReG[on: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Asbestos Mountain*, at 

 the Kloof Village, Burchell, 1668! 2064! 



32. N. platysepala (Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 47;i) ; an erect 

 herb, gldbrous, 4-7 in. high, glaucescent, annual ; leaves ovate, 

 somewhat acut-a or obtuse at the apex, serrate or cuneatc-dentate, 

 shortly petiola:e or subsessile, |-1 in. long, {-} in. broad, opposite or 

 the floral alternate, successively smaller and subamplexicaul ; racemes 



