﻿196 SCROPHULARIACE^E (Hiem). [Nemesia. 



4000 ft., Wood, 3939! Umzimfculu, Wood, 3039! Ismont, 2000 ft., Wood, 

 1866! Mooi River, 4000 ft., Wood, 4039! Schlechter, 6838! Alatikulu Hill, 

 6000-7000 ft., Evans, 388 ! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1133 ! 



41. N. acuminata (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 22) ; a 

 procumbent herb, glabrous, branched, 9 in. high or more, shining; 

 root perhaps perennial ; stem and branches tetragonous, furrowed ; 

 internodes about as long as the leaves ; leaves opposite, ovate or 

 lanceolate, acuminate or acute at the apex, subcordate or subtruncate 

 at the sessile 5-nerved base, sharply toothed or serrate, ^-li in- 

 long, xj—^ in. broad ; teeth rigid at the apex ; flowers axillary ; 

 floral leaves bract-like, gradually smaller towards the ends of the 

 stem and upper ascending or erect branchlets ; peduncles slender, 

 -J-i in. long ; calyx-segments lanceolate, acuminate or acute, about 

 J-i in. long ; corolla-lobes oblong, apparently about -^ in, long ; 

 lower lip broad, rounded, entire, mucronulate at the apex, about } in. 

 in diam. ; spur short, straight, cylindrical, obtuse, about yV^"^- ^^^S 5 

 palate thinly pubescent ; capsules semi-elliptic, dilated at the apex 

 into two lateral spreading-ascending acute horns, slightly unequal 

 and nearly rounded at the base, ^ in. long, or including the horns 

 ^ in. long, i in. broad or including the horns ^ in. broad ; valves 

 glabrous, their apices inclined at a very obtuse angle or continuous in 

 nearly the same line at the point of contact, curving gently upwards 

 towards their outer corners at the horns. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 

 263. Antirrliinum scabridum, Herb. Banks, ex Benth. in Hook. 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 22. 



South Africa : without locality, Masson ! 



42. N. chamaedrifolia (Vent. Jard. Malmais. sub n. 41) ; an 



erect or ascending herb, robust, much branched, glabrous, 7-24 in. 

 high, turning dusky in drying ; root fibrous, annual ; branches 

 opposite, tetragonous, erect-patent, ascending; internodes usually 

 rather longer than the leaves ; leaves opposite, or sometimes verti- 

 ciUate in fours, ovate, more or less acute or apiculate at the apex, 

 subtruncate or shortly narrowed at the 5-nerved base, serrate, firmly 

 membranous, spreading or erect-patent, |— 1| in. long, \-\. in. broad, 

 subsessile or shortly petiolate ; flowers axillary to the upper leaves ; 

 peduncles solitary, l-flowered, rather slender, \-\ in. long, spreading, 

 ascending; calyx-segments linear-elliptical, obtusely narrowed at 

 both ends, 1-1- in. long ; corolla flesh-coloured; lips \-\ in. long; 

 lobes of the upper lip short and rounded ; palate not bearded ; spur 

 conical, rounded at the free end, small, about -fV in. loug ; capsules 

 comprtssedly uiceolate, subtruncate and emarginate at the apex 

 with the outer points diverging in little horns, unequal and rounded 

 at the base, \~\ in. long, \-\ in. broad, glabrous. iV". cham(EdryfoUa, 

 Benth. in Hook. Comp, Bot. Mag. ii. 22, and in DC. Prodr. x. 264 ; 

 Krauss in Flora, 1844, 833. Antirrhinum macrocarpum, Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. ecZ . 1, ii. 335 ; Vahl, Symb. ii. &Q {macrocarpon). A. 

 scabrum, Thunb. Prodr. 105, and FL Gap. ed. Schult. 483. Linarta 

 scabra, Sp>reng. Syst. Veg. ii. 792. 



