﻿Colpias.] SCEOPHULAEIACE^ (Hiern). 169 



tube f-i in. long, i-f in. broad ; Iimbi-| in. broad ; lobes rounded ; 

 stamens glabrous or the filaments minutely glandular ; capsules 

 glabroas, i-|- in. long. Bentli. in DC. Prodr. x. 260 ; Ilarv. Gen. 

 S. Afr. PI eel. i. 252. 



Western Region : Little Namaqnaland ; in rocky places at Silver Fontein, 

 near Ookiep, 2000-3000 ft., Brege, 3104! Modder Fontein, Whitehead! in 

 clefts of rocks at Garrakoop Poort, 3200 ft., Bolus and MacOwan, Herb. Norm. 

 Aust.-A/r., 647! and without precise locality, Scully, 1281 



IX. NEMESIA, Vent. 



Calyx herbaceous, 5-partite, persistent, somewhat accrescent in 

 fruit; segments scarcely imbricate. Corolla membranous; tube 

 short, produced in front into a dependent spur, pocket or pouch ; 

 limb bilabiate ; posterior lip 4-cleft ; anterior lip consisting of one 

 entire or emarginate lobe and having at its base a convex palate. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous ; filaments of the anterior pair usually bent 

 round the posterior pair ; anthers by confluence 1-celled, usually 

 cohering in pairs about the stigma. Orar?/ 2 -celled ; style filiform, 

 narrowly stigmatose at the apex ; ovules numerous. Capsule laterally 

 compressed to a moderate extent ; valves boat-shaped, somewhat 

 keeled, at the apex obliquely truncate, rounded or angular at the 

 outer corner, exposing the placentiferous column. Seeds in one or 

 two rows, oblong, transverse ; testa somewhat loose, membranous, 

 reticulate or granulated, girt with a hyaUne wing. 



Herbs or undershrubs, annual or perennial ; leaves opposite ; flowers axillary 

 or arranged in terminal racemes with ebracteolate pedicels. 



DisTRiB. Species about 50, of which 2 or 3 are found in Tropical Africa. 



Corolla with a broad pouch or pocket rather than a 

 spur at the base : 



Corolla hairy within the lower lip : 



Perennial : leaves linear, entire (1) pallida. 



Annual ; cauliue leaves dentate, mostly ovate 

 or lanceolate : 



Corolla f-lj in. broad (2) strnmosa. 



Corolla about § in. broad (3j Guthnei. 



Corolla glabrous within : ... 



Coiolla sparingly minutely pilose outside ... (4) Bodkmu. 



Corolla glabrous on both faces : 

 Leaves linear : 



Pedicels all alternate ; leaves sessile, 



not hastate (5) saccata. 



Lower pedicels opposite; leaves 

 shortly petiolate and hastate at 



the base (6) hastata. 



Leaves ovate or somewhat lanceolate : 

 Calyx-segments linear or narrowly 

 oval ; bract linear or lanceo- 

 late (7) lucida 



Calyx-segments oval; bract ovate (!<) Leipoldtu. 



