Celsia. | XCII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 285 
more or less shortly tomentose on the underside, the lower leaves 
petiolate sometimes pinnate with very small lateral leaflets, the upper 
leaves smaller, sessile and cordate at the base. Raceme 12-18 in. long, 
simple or branched ; bracts broadly cordate, irregularly dentate, acu- 
minate, longer than the pedicels; pedicels }~? in. long; flowers very 
large. Calyx 4-5 lin. long; segments lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
sometimes slightly toothed near the apex. Corolla yellow. Filaments 
all bearded ; anthers reniform. Capsule as long as or slightly shorter 
than the calyx, glabrous, obovoid.— Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 376, 
partly. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen; Mount Aber near Jenausa, 9000-10000 ft., 
Schimper, 2077! Begemeder; Reb Valley, Schimper, 1400! and without precise 
locality, Schimper, 866! 869! Wganda, 7000-9600 ft.: between Eldama Ravine 
and upper Mau plateau, Whyte! upper Mau plateau, Whyte! Ruwenzori; Kivata, 
Scott-Elliot, 7723! 
ll. C. brevipedicellata, “ngl. Hochgebirgsf. Trop. Afr. 376. 
Stem rather more than a yard high, simple, erect, leafy, sparingly 
pilose ; lower internodes 14—2 in. long, the upper #-I} in. long. Leaves 
oblong, obtuse, rounded at the base, biserrate, thinly pilose on the 
underside; lower leaves 1} in. long, 5-74 lin. broad, with a slender 
petiole } in. long; upper leaves 5—94 lin. long, 24-34 lin, broad, sessile. 
Bracts 24 lin, long, 14-13 lin. broad, lanceolate, irregularly serrate. 
Pedicels 5 lin. long. Calyx-segments 24 lin. long, $ lin. broad, linear- 
lanceolate, acute. Capsule slightly longer than the calyx, ovoid. — 
Engl. Pf. Ost.-Afr. C. 356; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii, 189. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karsgwe ; Ruchigga, Bagshavwe, 
409; Kilimanjaro; in a wood by the Mue Brook, 5700-7500 ft., Meyer, 286. 
A specimen (Volkens, 251) received from Berlin under this name has pedicels 
7-8 lin. long and calyx-segments only 14-1} lin. long. 
6. NEMESIA, Vent.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 931. 
Calyx 5-partite; segments scarcely imbricate. Corolla 2-lipped ; 
upper lip 4-fid ; anticous lip entire or emarginate, convex at the base 
forming a palate; tube produced in front into a single sac or spur. 
Stamens 4, didynamous; anticous filaments circumflex: at the base ; 
anthers 1-celled by confluence, usually cohering in pairs. Style fili- 
form. Ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule compressed contrary to 
the septum, septicidal ; valves boat-shaped, subcarinate, obliquely trun- 
cate or rounded at the apex Seeds 1- or 2-seriate, oblong, surrounded 
by a membranous transparent wing; testa reticulate or granular. 
—Slender annual or perennial herbs or sometimes undershrubs. Leaves 
Opposite. Flowers racemose at the ends of the branches or more rarely 
axillary and solitary ; pedicels ebracteolate. Corolla yellow, white, 
violet or variously coloured. 
A genus of 49 species, all, except the following, South African. 
Corolla with a distinct rather slender spur 1-2} lin. long 1. WN. affinis. 
Corolla with a rounded sac 1 lin. broad ; ‘ . 2. N. dentata. 
