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* NEMESTA floribunda. 



Many-Jlowered Nemesia. 



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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat* ord. ScROPHULABiACE-ffi. Tribus Hemimbride^k, Bentham. 



NEMESIA. Calyx 5-sepalus. Corolla basi saccata vel calcarata, Umbo 

 personate bllabiato, labio superiore 4-fido, inferiore integro vel emarginato^ palato 

 convexo. Stamina 4, didynama, inferiora longlora, basi arcumflexa, superiora 

 cingentia. AntJierce uniloculares, per paria saepissime cohserentes. Capsula 

 compressa, septicido-bivalvis, valvulis navicularibus subcarinatis apice obliqu^ 

 tnincatis, latere exteriore acuto vel breviter comuto, rarius apice rotundatis. 



Semina oblonga^ ak membranacea cincta. 



rarius perennes vel suffrutescentes. 



rariUs axillares. (Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. 2. p. 18.) 



HerbsB Austro- Africance annua, 



Folia oppo$ita. Floras racemosi vel 





N. Jioribunda ; erecta, subglabra ; foliis infimis petiolatls ovatis superiorlbus 

 subsessilibus ovatis oblongis lanceolatlsve plerisque dentatis, corollae laciniis 

 4 superloribus labio inferiori subsequilongls, paiato tenuissimd pubescente, 

 calcare subrecto obtuso labio inferiori subaequilougo, capsula ovali-oblonga 

 valvulis oblique truncatis angwlo exteriore acuto. 



N. floribunda. Lehm. Ind. Sent. Hort. Hamh. 1833. 



N. afBnis. Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. 2.p.2\. 



"An upright branching annual, nine inches to a foot 

 high, nearly glabrous in all its parts, or bearing a few short 

 hairs in the upper part of the plant. Leaves opposite, the 

 lower ones borne on short foot-stalks, the upper ones sessile, 

 all of them in the variety before me usually oval, some- 

 times oblong, or somewhat lanceolate in wild specimens, and 

 generally irregularly toothed in the margin. Racemes ter- 

 minal, loose. Peduncles one-flowered, alternate and solitary 

 in the axilla of a small ovate bract or flower leaf, about an 

 inch long, without any bracteoles, and usually bearing a few 

 hairs. Calyx formed of five linear sepals, free from the 

 base. Tube of the corolla bearing a linear-conical obtuse 



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lip of the corolla. 



v£/«jffi£ division, m alliisioD to the lobes of the upper 



