﻿Nemesia.^ scrophulabiace^ (HIern). 195 



Nelson, 232 ! Var. fi -. Orauge River Colonj j without precise locality. Cooper, 

 717! Transvaal; Rhenoster Kop, Burke! and Klein Olifauts River, 5000 ft 

 Schiechter, 3798 ! 



Eastern Region : Tembuland ; between Nquamakweand Engcobo, 3600 ft., 

 Bolus, 8755 ! Natal ; South Downs, Weenen county, 4000-5000 ft,, Wood, 

 4374! near Durban, Gueinzius, 5U ! Cooper, 2825! near the Tugela River, 

 40C0 ft., Wood, 3622 ! Sundays River, Nelson, 2 ! and without precise 

 locality, Sanderson, 383! Var. ;8 : Natal; Catbkin Peak, SOOO-IOOOO ft., 

 Bolus in Herb. Qutlirie, 4876 ! near Durban, Grant ! Peddle ! Plant, 17 ! 

 Schiechter, 2928 ! between Pietermaritzburjr and Greytown, Wilms, 2185 ! 30-60 

 miles from the sea, 2000-3000 ft., Sutherland! 



N. capensis, var. ecalcarata, 0. Kuntze, Kev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 237, with the 

 corolla pouched, and either acute or very shortly spurred at the base, is un- 

 known to me. It was collected by Kuntze at Beaufort West, in Beaufort West 

 Div. 



40. N. melissaefolia (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bof. Mag. ii. 22) ; 

 an erect or ascending herb, robust or wiry, glabrous or nearly so, 

 shining, branched from the bas^, -}-2^ ft. high ; root apparently 

 perennial ; branches opposite, smooth, tetragonous, furrowed, quite 

 glabrous or rarely somewhat pilose, moderately leafy and spreading 

 or erect-patent, ascending ; leaves opposite, ovate or sublanceolate, 

 acute or apiculate, more or less narrowed at the 5-nerved shortly 

 petiolate base, serrate or incise, dentate, |-3 in. long, fV-lv i'l- 

 broad, membranous, glabrous; petioles ranging up to 1 in. long; 

 racemes terminal and axillary, more or less lax, many- or few-flowered 

 or sometimes reduced to a single axillary flower, weak or slender, 

 ranging up to 4 in. long ; bracts small, mostly linear or subulate, 

 alternate or opposite or sometimes verticillate ; pedicels inserted in 

 the axils of the bracts, slender, spreading, ascending, |-| in. long ; 

 calyx-segments oval-linear, obtuse, ^~l in. long, glabrous or nearly 

 so ; corolla white or pink-white ; lips about }-}: in. long ; lobes of 

 the upper lip short, rounded ; spur narrowly conical or conical- 

 prolongedj obtuse, slightly curved, \-} in. long; capsules oblong, 

 subtruncate at the apex, unequal and rounded or scarcely narrowed 

 at the base, |-i in. long, i-i in. broad, glabrous ; valves with their 

 top lines inclined at a very obtuse angle towards each other, with the 

 outer points diverging and slightly or scarcely horned. JBenih. in 

 DC. Prodr. x. 264 ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834. 



Coast Region : Knysna Div. ; in marshes, Zitzikamraa, Krauss, 1616 ! 

 Uitenhage Div. ; near Vite\iba.fre, Zeyher, 3486! Alexandria Div. ; on the rocks 

 in Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3359 ! Zwart Hoogte, EcMon. Albany Div. ; 

 Graharastown, Bolton/ Mrs. Barber, 495! Fort Beaufort Div.; vicinity of Port 

 Beaufort, 1000-2000 ft. Ecl flon 2 15 ! Queenstown Div. ; forest on N'Zebamgra 

 Mountain, near Queenstown, 4500 ft., Galpin. 1823! Stutterheim Div.; near 

 Dohne, Ooop'r, 185! 



CfNTBAr. Region- Div.? Karoo, Drlge! Somerset Div., Cof<iper, 2824! 

 Colesberg Div. ; near Colesberg, Shaw ! Philipstown Div. ; Phdipstown, 

 ^cklon. 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; without precise locality, Cooper, 

 282o ! 



Eastern Region • Griqualand East ; Zunrberg Range, Wood. 1988 1 Pondo- 

 land; Faku's territory. Sutherland ! at the foot of Mount Curne 4500 ft., 

 1'yso-n, 1136! Natal- Illovo River Vallev, 2000 ft., Wood, 1861! Liddesdalt., 



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