Tas. 7272. 
NEMESIA strrumosa. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHuLaRINEZ.—Tribe HEMIMERIDER. 
Genus Nemesia, Vent.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 931). 
Nemesia strumosa ; herbacea, erecta, basi ramosa, caule 4-gono, foliis radicali- 
bus oblongis oblanceolatisve acuminatis remote serratis caulinis lineari- 
bus, racemis multifloris glanduloso-pilosis, bracteis linearibus, floribus 
amplis longe pedicellatis versicoloribus, calycis laciniis linearibus obtusis, 
corolla basi saceata, limbi lobo inferiore latiore quam longo emarginato 
intus barbato, superiore multo minore 3-lobo lobis oblongis rotundatisve. 
N. strumosa, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Maz. vol. ii. p. 18; im DC. Prodr. 
vol. x. p. 260. Journ. Hort. Soc. Ser. 3, vol. xxv. (1892) p. 107, fig. 16. 
Gard. Chron. (1892) vol. ii. p. 269, fig. 48. 
Antirrhinum strumosum, Soland. in Herb. Banks. 
It is difficult to understand how it has come to pass 
that so beautiful a plant as that here figured should be a 
native of the Cape of Good Hope within fifty miles of Cape 
Town, and should never till now have been introduced into 
this country. I can only suppose that it may have im- 
proved greatly under cultivation in England, and that 
native grown specimens are less attractive ; to which must 
be added the general neglect of Cape of Good Hope plants 
amongst horticulturists, and the apathy in late years of 
collectors in that region ; for whilst beautiful and interest- 
ing novelties are constantly arriving from Port Elizabeth, 
Natal, and the Transvaal, Disa grandiflora seems to be the 
only plant worth sending for to the Cape. Mr. N. E. 
Brown, in his excellent account of this plant (‘‘ Gardener’s 
Chronicle,” 1. c.), observes that the variation in colour of 
the flowers is one of its most interesting features. 
Of these variations there are sixteen well marked, exhibit- 
ing an extraordinary range, from white to primrose yellow, 
orange, rose and deep red. In some the colour is nearly 
uniform throughout the upper surface of both lips of the 
corolla, in others of the red or orange series the throat is 
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