﻿Nemesia.] scrophulaeiace^ (Hiern), 197 



South Africa: without locality, Thunherg ! Schumaker ! Zeyher, 1264! 

 Nelson.' Bolus, 28731 Harvey, 52)1' Sieber / and cultivated specimens ! 



Coast Reuion : Cape D'lv.; Talile Mountain, 1000-3000 ft.. Ecklon, 556! 

 Drege, 7877 cl Bolus Herh. Norm. Aust.-Afr.,^76\ Krauss ; Devils Mountain, 

 at the Waterfall, 1200 ft., Wolley Dod, 651 ! Bolus, 3303 ! Simons Bay, 

 Wright, 612! Cape plain, Schmieterloh, 179! Swellendara Div. ; Voormans- 

 bosch, Zeyher, 3488 ! Svvellendam, Lichtenstein. 



iV. chamcedryfolia, var. natalensis, Bernh. ex Krauss in Flor.i, 1844, 833, 

 without description, collected in grassy places about Durban Bay, Natal, by 

 Kra-us-i, is unknown to me. 



43. N. hanoverica (Hiern) ; a decumbent herb, suflFruticose below, 

 apparently perennial, much branched, pilose above, 9 in. high, or 

 more ; branches wiry, difEuse, herbaceous above, slender, tetragonous, 

 furrowed, ascending ; upper internodes shorter than the leaves, 

 middle ones longer ; leaves opposite, ovate or lanceolate, subobtuse 

 or acute at the apex, apiculate, shortly narrowed or wedge-shaped at 

 the base, membranous, sparingly pilose, serrate-dentate or denticu- 

 late or the upper floral subentire, f-l| in. Jong, |-| in. broad ; 

 petioles ranging up to I in. long ; flowers axillary and in terminal 

 bracteate racemes ; peduncle and pedicels slender, spreading or 

 ascending, shortly pilose, i-i^ in. long ; bracts alternate or opposite, 

 lanceolate, subentire, like the leaves but smaller ; calyx-segments 

 lanceolate or sublinear, acute, entire, shortly pilose, about ^ in. 

 long ; corolla | in. long, apparently whitish, sparingly pilose outside, 

 thinly membranous ; upper lip ^ in. long ; lobes short, rounded ; 

 lower lip nearly as long as the upper ; spur conical, about I in. long, 

 I in. broad at the base, narrow at the free end ; capsule oblong, 

 subtruncate at the apex, unequal and rounded at the base, slightly or 

 scarcely narrowed below the apex, not horned at the apex. 



Central Region: Hanover Div.; rocky places near Hanover, 4500 ft.. 

 Bolus, 20O7! 



44. N. pubescens (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 22) ; an 

 erect or ascending herb, pubescent or more or less pilose, loosely 

 branched, a ft. high or more ; root apparently perennial (except the 

 variety) ; stem and branches tetragonous, furrowed and striate ; 

 internodes mostly rather longer than the leaves ; leaves opposite or 

 the upper floral alternate, ovate, obtuse or apiculate or the floral 

 acute at the apex, broad near tlie base, membranous, thinly pubes- 

 cent or nearly glabrate, dentate-serrate, shortly petiolate, 1-2 in. 

 long, 1-1^ in. broad, or the floral smaller ; petioles ranging up to 

 i in. long; flowers axillary or the upper quasi-racemose, arranged m 

 terminal several- or few-flowered leafy and bracteate rather lax 

 racemes ; peduncles and pedicels l-flowered, slender, inserted in the 

 axils of floral leaves and bracts, ?, | i"- '^"r', V'^'^^^^ o"" ^^^^Z 

 glabrous ; bracts alternate, together with the floral leaves gradually 

 smaller towards the top of the racemes; calyx-segments lanceolate 

 or sublinear, acute or subacute, pilose or subglabrous, shortly cdiolate, 

 tV-v in. long ; corolia-lips about } in. long or shorter ; spur conical- 

 prolonged, obtuse, about ^ in. long or shorter; capsule l)roadly 



