Tas. 5599. 
NIEREMBERGIA. Verronn. 
Mr. Veitch’s Nierembergia. 
Nat. Ord. Soranes.—Pentanpria Dieynta. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus v. subcampanulatus, persistens, arcuatus, 
5-fidus, laciniis subequalibus. Corolle tubus gracilis, elongatus; limbus 
infundibuliformis v. campanulatus, sepe plicatus, 5-lobus. Stamina 5, 
fauce corolla inserta, insequilonga, filamentis conniventibus v. connatis ; 
anthere sub stigmate dehiscentes. Ovarium 2-loculare; stylus simplex, 
stigmate 2-lamellato; ovula plurima. Capsula calyce persistente tecta, 
2-locularis, septicide 2-valvis. Semina plurima, minima.—Herbe v. suffru- 
tices Austro-Americane. Folia opposita, alterna v. subverticillata, integer- 
fon Flores extra-alares v. oppositifolia, solitaria ; corolla alba v. sub- 
violtacea. 
Nrerempgrata Veitchii; glaberrima v. tenuiter pubescens, caulibus gra- 
cilibus prostratis ramosis, foliis plerisque oppositis lineari- v. obovato-* 
oblongis v. spathulatis, breviter tengo subacutis, floribus breviter 
pedicellatis, calyeis campanulati lobis magnis patenti-recurvis lineari- 
oblongis acutis, corolle tubo filiformi, limbo lato campanulato, lobis 
latis subacutis. 
NrerEMBERGIA Veitchii. Berkeley, mss. 
A lovely little plant, imported by Messrs. Veitch from Tu- 
cuman, in South America. Though we find nothing exactly 
like it either described or in the Herbarium, the species of 
this genus are so variable, that I suspect it will prove to be 
a form of the Chilian W. repens, R. et P., or Peruvian N. spa- 
thulata, H.B.K., if indeed these be not all varieties of one 
widely-diffused and multiform plant, which differs in the 
amount of pubescence, the form and length of the leaves and 
their petioles, their opposite or alternate insertion, the length 
of the peduncles calyx-lobes and corolla-tube, and in the 
size of the flower. In the present species the lower leaves 
are alternate, and all the rest opposite, the petioles and pe- 
dicels short, and the calyx-lobes rather broad. 
Descr. An elegant, prostrate, branched, slender, glabrous, 
or very sparingly pubescent herb. Stems eight inches to a 
foot long, branches almost filiform, terete. Leaves half to 
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