﻿198 SCROPHULARIACE.E (Hieru). [Nemesia. 



ovate-oblong, truncate and emarginate at the apex, nearly glabrous, 

 slightly narrower towards the apex artd slightly or scarcely broader 

 again at the apex, somewhat unequal at the base, one side rounded, 

 the other slightly narrowed towards the base, \-\ in. long, ^\ in. 

 broad ; valves with their outer top corners rounded or scarcely 

 horned. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 264. 



Var. j3, glabrior (Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 264, without description) ; 

 apparently annual, 6-12 in. high, comparatiTely glabrous ; corolla-lips J in. 

 long ; spur yL in. long ; capsules rather more oblong. 



Coast Regiok : Uuiondale Dir. ; hills by the Klip River near Keurbooms 

 River, 2000-3000 ft., Ih-tge, 7878 ! 



CKNTBAii Region : Graatf Reinet Div. ; in sandy places on Cave Mountain, 

 near Gmaff Reinet, 3900 ft., jBoZms, 2007a! Vab. 8 -. GraafiF Reinet Div. ; on 

 stony and rocky mountain flats, near Graaff Reinet, 3000-4000 ft., Drege, 7877!) ! 

 Middelburg Div. ; Conway Farm, Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 2998 ! 



Kalahari Region: Var. -. Orange River Colony; Thaba Uncbu, 

 Bvrke ! 



45. N. albiflora (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 28) ; an 

 erect or ascending herb, 4-18 in. high, viscid-pubescent or woolly 

 with long pallid hairs, loosely branched from the base upwards ; 

 root annual or perhaps perennial ; stems and branches tetragonous, 

 sulcate and striate, leafy ; leaves opposite, ovate, obtuse or the upper 

 subacute, rounded at or near the base or the lower abruptly wedge- 

 shaped, pubescent or nearly glabrous, crenate-serrate or serrate- 

 dentate, membranous, i-2 in. long, |-1| in. broad, the upper sessile, 

 the lower shortly petiolate ; petioles ranging up to | in. long ; 

 flowers axillary or the upper quasi-racemose, arranged in terminal 

 several- or few-flowered leafy and bracteate racemes ; peduncles and 

 pedicels 1 -flowered, slender, |-f in. long, axillary or bracteate at the 

 base ; bracts gradually smaller than the leaves ; calyx-segments 

 narrowly elliptical or sublinear, subacute or minutely apiculate, 

 iV~5" i'i- long ; corolla white with a few violet veins ; lips i-| in- 

 long ; upper corolla-lobes oblong, obtuse ; spur i-| in. long, narrow, 

 obtuse, straight ; lower lip obovate, rounded ; palate glandular- 

 pubescent, with two protuberances ; capsules ovate-oblong, "very 

 broadly excised at the apex, not horned, unequal at the base, one side 

 rounded, the other slightly narrowed towards the base, \~l- in. long, 

 «"i in. broad ; seeds winged, ^\ in. long and broad. 



Central Region : Albert Div., Cooper, 633 ! 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; in open spaces, near Bethlehem, 

 5300 ft., Bolus, 8226! at the foot of Mont-aux-Sources, near Elands River, 

 6^00 ft., Flanagan, 2105 ! 



Eastern Region : Katal ; Mooi River, 4000 ft.. Wood, 4073 ! in old oaves by 

 the Bushmans River, on the Drakensberg, 6000-7000 ft., Evans, 58 I and with- 

 out precise locality, Gerrard, 1230! 



46. N. lanceolata (Hiern) ; a rigid herb, apparently perennial, 

 softly pubescent, much branched, a ft. high or more ; branchlets 

 making a rather small angle with the branches, rather slender, wiry, 

 straight, moderately leafy, obscurely quadrangular, striate, opposite; 



