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namous, tlie filaments of the lower ones curved round at base 

 and clasping the upper, sometimes dilated and appendiculate, 

 rarely without anthers ; anthers 1-celled, mostly cohering. 

 Capsule subglobose or elongate, obtuse, not compressed, sep- 

 ticidal.— i>C. Prod. x. p. 25G. 



Annual or rarely perennial herbs, the lower or all the leaves opposite. 

 Pedicels axillary and solitary, or the upper tufted and racemose. Flowers 

 often red. — 21 species, dispei-sed. 



3. COLPIAS, E. Mey. 

 Calyx 5-parted. Corolla-tube ample, declinate at base, in- 

 curved ascending, 2-gibbous or shortly 2-saccate in front ; 

 limb with 5 subequal, broad, spreading lobes. Stamens 4, 

 short, declined, didynamous ; filaments incurved but not cir- 

 cumflexed ; anther-cells at length confluent. Style emargi- 

 nate. Capsule ovoid, acuminate, septicidal, with 2-fid valves. 

 —DC. Prod. X. p. 259. 



A branching shrublet, softly hairy. Leaves petioled, roundish-cordate, 

 toothed or cut. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered ; corolla about 8 lines long. 

 — Namaqualand. 



4. NEMESIA, Vent. 

 Calyx 5-parted. Corolla personate, the upper lip 4-fid, 

 lower entire or emarginate, palate convex, the throat, under 

 the palate, prolonged into a single pouch or spur. Stamens 

 4, didynamous, the lower filaments curved round at base and 

 clasping the upper ; anthers 1-celled, mostly cohering in pairs. 

 Capsule compressed, septicidally 2-valved, the valves boat- 

 shaped, somewhat keeled. — DC. Prod. x. p. 260. 



Herbs, annual or perennial, rarely halfshrubby. Leaves opposite. 

 Flowers racemose, rarely axillary ; corolla yellow white violet or parti- 

 coloured. — 28 species, dispersed. 



5. DICLIS, Benth. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla personate, the upper lip 2-fid, 

 lower 3-fid, the tube under the upper lip 1-spurred. Stamens 

 as in Nemesia. Capsules subglobose, emarginate, loculicidally 

 2-valved, the valves entire or scarcely cloven. — DC. Prod. x. 

 p. 264. 



Creeping herbs, mostly turning black in drying. Leaves opposite, petio- 

 late, toothed. Pedicels solitary, axillary, 1-flowered. — 2 South Afi'ican 

 species, Eastern and at Natal. 



Tribe 2. ANTiRRHiNEiE. (G-en. 6.) 



6. LINARIA, Juss. 



Calyx deeply 5-partcd. Corolla personate, tube spurred at 

 base, upper lip erect, with a prominent, large or small palate. 



