﻿Nemesia.'j scrophulariace^ (Hiern). 191 



than the lower ; capsule campanulate, compressed, \ in. long and 

 broad, nearly equal at the base ; valves 2, obliquely truncate at the 

 apex along curved lines which make an Gbtuse angle with each 

 other and terminate on the outer sides in short diverging points. 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 262. Antirrhinum pinnatum, Linn. f. 

 Suppl. 280 ; Thunb. Prodr. 105. Orontium pinnatum, Pers. Syn. 

 ii. 159. 



South Atrica : without locality, Oldenhurgh, 370! Forbes! Thunherg ! 

 Ecklon, 356 ! Wright, 603 ! 604 ! Harvey J 



Coast Region: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain. Pappe! Cape Flats, Zeifher, 

 1267 ! Flats near Wynberg, Drege, 354 ! slopes above Fernwood, Wolley Dod, 

 149! Flat near Rondeboseh, Wolley Dod, 148! Bnlus, 2871! Camp s'"""""', 

 WoUeij Dod, 150! near Keuilvvorth, 100 ft., Bolus, Herb. Norm. Ausf..-Afr., 618! 

 sandy places near Cape Town, Bolus, 2871 ! north slopes of Slang Kop, [Volley 

 Dod, S021 ! stream beyond Pauls Berg, Wolley Dod, 2366 ! 



It is partial to damp sandy places, and on the Cape peninsula reaches 2000 ft. 

 (_Wolley Dod). 



35. N. coerulea (Hiern) ; a nearly glabrous or somewhat pilose 

 herb, erect, perennial, rigid, much branched near the base, leafy 

 below, shining, pale green, 1-2 ft. high, hard or somewhat woody at 

 the base ; branches erect or promptly ascending, tetragonous, furrowed 

 or striate ; upper internodes longer than the leaves ; leaves opposite, 

 ovate, obtuse at the apex or nearly so, nearly rounded or somewhat 

 narrowed at the sessile or subsessile 5-nerved subdecurrent base, 

 denticulate, f-l in. long, ^-^ in. broad ; teeth thickened or callous 

 on the margin, rather small ; racemes oblong or subcoryrnbose, 

 several- or many-flowered, rather compact or dense, 1-6 in. long, 

 bracteate ; bracts narrowly lanceolate or sublinear, alternate, opposite 

 or quasi-fasciculate, smaller than the leaves ; pedicels axillary to the 

 bracts, rigid, rather slender, -J-~|- in. long, pilose ; flowers blue ; 

 calyx-segments narrowly ovate-oval or -oblong or sublinear, ^-} in. 

 long, veined, pilose ; upper corolla-lip about ^ in. long ; lobes 4, 

 rounded, about ^V in. long and broad; lower iip subhemispherical, 

 about i in. in diam. ; spur conical, obtuse, ^V^tV i^- ^^ng; capsule 

 roundly ovate or oblong, emarginate at the apex, unequally rounded 

 at the base, l-^ in. long, |-| in. broad, not or slightly narrowed 

 below the apex, not horned, outer angles of the top of the valves 

 rounded or bluntly pointed ; seeds winged, about iV i"- ^^"8 ^^^ 

 broad. 



Eastehn Region: Griqualand East; near Kokstad, Wood, 4196! Natal, 

 Gerrard, 371 ! 



36. N. anfracta (Hiern); a diffuse herb, perhaps perennial, 

 glabrous or nearly so, shining; stem compressedly quadrangular, 

 with the narrower sides furrowed, 1| ft. long or more ; branches 

 divaricate, opposite, rather slender, wiry ; internodes mostly shorter 

 than the leaves; brauchlets more or less flexuous, usually zigzag at 

 the inflorescence ; leaves opposite, spreading, lanceolate, acute or 

 apiculate at the apex, broad or not much narrowed at the semi- 



