﻿Nemesia.'] scrophulariace^ (Hiern). 193 



38. N. divergens (Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 22) ; a glabroua 

 erect herb, shining, perennial, about 2 ft. high, rigid, much branched 

 near the hard or somewhat woody base, sparingly branched above ; 

 branches erect or ascending, wiry, rigid, often broom-like ; internodes 

 mostly exceeding or nearly equalling the leaves ; leaves opiiosite, 

 linear-lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped to 

 the sessile or subsessile subdecurrent base, entire or denticulate, 

 rigid, l—l in. long, -^-^-^ in. broad ; racemes terminal, oblong, many- 

 flowered, rather dense, 3-6 in. long, bracteate ; bracts alternate, 

 lanceolate or sublinear, smaller than the leaves ; pedicels axillary to 

 the bracts, erect-patent or ascending, ^-| in. long, rather slender, 

 rigid; flowers about i in. in their greatest length; calyx-segments 

 tV-i in. long, linear-oval, obtuse, glabrous or minutely sessile- 

 glandular ; upper corolla-lip ^ in. long ; lobes oblong, rounded at 

 the apex, J in. long ; lower lip nearly equal to or rather shorter than 

 the upper ; palate shortly bearded ; spur conical-prolonged, i-i in. 

 long, straight or nearly so ; capsules semi-elliptic or oblong, sub- 

 truncate and emarginate at the apex, unequally rounded at the base, 

 i-l in. long, -j\j-i in, broad, not or slighily 2-horned at the apex. 

 Benth. in 1)0. Prodr. x. 263; Krauss in Flora, 18i4, 833; O. 

 Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 237. 



Coast Region: Cape Div. ; near Capetown, Ecklon, 144 ! Kuysna Div. ; 

 on hills near Knysna Eiver, Krauss, lgl4 ! S tockenstrom Div. ; Katbeig, Sham .' 

 Alexandria Div. ; Zwart Hoogte~2550 ft:','Ecklon Sf Zeyher, 1201 ! 



Centbal Region : Cradock Div. ; Crudock, Kuntze. Hopatovvn Div. ? 

 ]"oiirnev t'rom Colesberg to Hopetown, Shaw ! 



Western Region: Great Nam«qualaud? without precise locality, Schmz, 

 49! 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony; Caledon River, Zey/ier, 1263 ! and 

 without precise locality, Zeyher, ll'J9 ! 



Eastekn Region : Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 107 ! 



Perhaps only a variety of N. feet ens, Vent. 



39. N. foetens (Vent. Jard. Malmais. 41, t. 41) ; a decumbent 

 or ascending undershrub or sufl'ruticose herb, perennial, much 

 branched, shrubby and usually tufted at the base, herbaceous 

 above, glabrous or nearly so, 4-24 in. higii ; bark cracking, grey-a^hy ; 

 smell disagrteable ; branches tetragonous, fuirowed, leafy, bruwi.i-h 

 below, dull green above ; axillary shoots often very short and but little 

 developed ; leaves opposite, sometimes quasi fasciculate-verti.ilhitH, 

 usually linear or lanceolate, obtuse or pointed at the ap-x, somewhat 

 narrowed or obtuse at the base, sessile cr subsessile or tlie low- r 

 shortly petiolate, entire or dentate, i-li m. long, -iVI ^^- ^>^'-'^'^' 

 spreading ; internodes mostly about equalling the leavvs ; lacemes 

 terminal, several- or many-flowered, sub.orymbose or oh loi,g. ^-y in. 

 l"ng, elongating; bracts alternate, entire, sessile, smaller ihun ih. 

 leaves; pedicels inserted in the axils of the bracts or f.iscicl d hi a 

 subverticillate manner, more or less glandular-pilose ,^i-| ni. long ; 

 calyx-segments narrowly oval or linear, obtuse, yVs '"• '',"-• 

 pnbernlous or subglabrous ; corolla pink, blue, lavender or NvJute 



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