﻿174 SCROPHULARIACE^ (Hiem). [Nemesia. 



4. N. Bodkinii (Bolus in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2502) ; an ascending or 

 suberect herb, annual (Bolus), glabrous or nearly so except the 

 inflorescence, 3-9 in. high, woody and much branched at the base ; 

 branches ascending, decussate, angular, leafy at least below, firm or 

 wiry ; internodes mostly about equalling or shorter than the leaves ; 

 leaves opposite, lanceolate, sublinear or ovate, acute or apiculate, 

 somewhat narrowed to the sessile subdecurrent base or the lower 

 ■wedge-shaped to the shortly petiolate base, strongly toothed, thick, 

 ■|-1 in. long, -Yi^-k ^^- Iroad ; teeth acute or apiculate ; racemes 

 terminal, short, few-flowered, lax ; pedicels i-f in. loog, finely 

 pilose or puberulous, arising from the axils of bracts ; bracts alter- 

 nate or the lowest opposite, sublinear and smaller than the leaves 

 or the lowest leaf-like ; calyx-segments lanceolate or somewhat 

 ovate or oblong, obtuse or scarcely acute, glandular-pilose or -puberu- 

 lous, -Yo~-5 ^^- loi^gj corolla blackish-purple [Bolus), |-f in. long, 

 sparingly pilose outside, glabrous within; tube inflated, gaping at 

 the throat, with two shallow pockets on the upper side ; limb patent ; 

 upper lip deeply 4-cleft, about ^ in. long, the full breadth of the 

 corolla ; lobes rounded, subequal, ~ in. in diam. ; lower lip broadly 

 oblong, rounded at the apex, i in. broad at the base, about ^ in. long, 

 entire ; pouch broadly saccate-conical, very blunt, ^-^ in. long, 

 ^-f in. broad, inflated, notched at the tip ; capsule ovate-oblong, 

 excise at the apex, somewhat unequal and nearly rounded at the 

 base, glabrous, \ in. long^ ^ in. broad. 



Coast EEGroN : ClanwUliam Div.; Pakbuis Berg, 3000 ft., Schlecliter, 8625 1 

 Tulbagb Di\'. ; on the steep slopes of mountains about Tulbagb (New) Kloof, 

 1200 ft., Bodkin ^' Bolus in Herh. Bolus, 8401 ! 



5. N. saccata (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 

 19) ; an erect or suberect herb, annual, about 6-10 in. high, glab- 

 rous below, somewhat g'andular-pilose above, leafy at least below, 

 usually branched frooi the base ; stem and branches quadrangular; 

 leaves opposite, linear, very obtuse at the apex, slightly narrowed 

 towards the sessile narrowly decurrent base, entire (or rarely with a 

 few small teeth), somewhat fleshy, glabrous, i-li in. long; racemes 

 oblong, terminating the stem and branches, flat at the top, 3-6 in. 

 long, puberulous ; bracts alternate, linear or lanceolate, obtuse, entire, 

 sessile, gradually shorter than the leaves ; pedicels alternate, in the 

 axils of the bracts, |-1 in. long, slender, more or less spreading ; 

 calyx-segments oval or oblong, obtuse, glandular-puberulous and 

 -ciliolate or nearly glabrous, yV-yV in. long ; corolla i-f in. long and 

 broad, blue, glabrous, not bearded, with a short broad pouch at the 

 base ; upper lip deeply 4-lobed ; lobes oblong or ovate, rounded at 

 the apex, about i in. long ; lower lip bifid at the apex, -L in. long, 

 the full breadth of the corolla ; anthers scarcely cohering ; capsule 

 about I- in. long, i in. broad, obovoid, suhtruncate and emarginate at 

 the apex ; valves broad, curved and making an obtuse angle with 

 each other at the apex. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 2G0. 



