286 xcn. scROPi-iULARiACEiE (hemsley and skan). [Nemesia. 



1. N. affinis, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 21, excl (3 and y. 

 An erect annual herb up to 1| ft. high, branched from the base, glabrous 

 below or very sparingly pubescent ; stem and branches slender, quad- 

 rangular, rather sparingly leafy. Leaves usually opposite, sessile or the 

 lower petiolate, oblong, lanceolate or linear, \-l\ in. long, up to \ in. 

 broad, acute or obtuse, denticulate. Racemes terminal, lax, few- or 

 many-flowered, 1-4 in. long ; bracts alternate, linear to ovate-lanceo- 

 late 1-4 lin. long ; pedicels slender, \-\ | in. long, more or less glan- 

 dular-hairy. Calyx-segments linear to narrowly oblong, f-lA- lin. long, 

 nearly glabrous or glandular-hairy, obtuse. Corolla glabrous outside, 

 4-5 lin. long; upper lobes oblong, l§-3 lin. long; lower lip slightly 

 shorter than the upper ; palate bearded ; spur conical, 1-2 J lin. long, 

 obtuse. Capsule broadly oblong, 2|— 3 lin. long, 2-2^ lin. broad, sub- 

 truncate at the apex ; valves minutely apiculate. — DC. Prodr. x. 262 ; 

 Hiern in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 182. 



lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Great Namaqualand, Reho- 

 both, Schinz, 23 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



IT. linearis, Vent., var. clenticulata, O. Kuntze in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 

 269 (Hereroland, Pecliuel-Loesehe) is unknown to me. The type is confined to 

 eastern and central South Africa. 



2. 3NT. dentata, G. Don, Gen. Syst, iv. 534, An erect herb, annual, 

 leafy at the base, glabrous except the inflorescence, 1| ft. high, simple 

 up to the inflorescence ; upper internccles exceeding the leaves. Leaves 

 opposite, linear, denticulate, 1-2 in. long, f-3 lin. broad. Pedicels 

 pubescent, about 5 lin. long. Calyx-segments linear, subobtuse, pubes- 

 cent, 2^ lin. long. Corolla glandular-puberulous outside, 4 lin. long ; 

 the four posticous lobes rounded, li lin. long ; sac rounded, reaching 

 # lin. below the calyx, 1 lin. broad ; anticous lip very broad, as long as 

 the posticous lobes ; palate bearded. Stamens glabrous. — A", monomota- 

 pensis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 264. Linaria monomota.pensis, Desf. 

 ex Spreng. Syst. ii. 797. Antirrhinum dentalum, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 

 iv. 22. 



IVIozamb. SSist. Zambesia, Herb. Sprengel, 166. Matabeleland ; Monomotapa, 

 Serb. Dexfontaines. 



The above description was prepared by Mr. Hiern from a specimen which he saw 

 in the Berlin Herbarium. 



7. DICLXS, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 932. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments scarcely imbricate. Corolla 2-lipped ; 

 posticous lip 2-fid ; anticous lip 3-fid ; tube 1-spurred in front. Stamens 

 4, didynamous ; filaments of the anticous pair circumflex at the base ; 

 anthers 1-celled by confluence, cohering in pairs. Style minutely 

 stigmatose at the apex. Ovules numerous. Capsule subglobose, 

 emarginate at the apex, loculicidal ; valves entire or semi-bifid. Seeds 

 ovoid ; testa reticulate-foveolate. — Slender creeping or prostrate herbs, 

 often drying black. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, ebracteate. 



