﻿176 scuoPHULARiACE^ (Hiem). [Nemesia. 



rigid, 6-12 in. high or rather more ; stem and branches tetragonous, 

 the latter opposite and erect-patent ; internodes mostly exceeding 

 the leaves ; leaves opposite, ovate or the upper somewhat lanceo- 

 late, obtuse at the apex, subtruncate, rounded or obtusely narrowed 

 at the base, irregularly dentate, membranous, \-l^ in. long, ^-f in. 

 broad, subsessile and narrowly decurrent or shortly petiolate; 

 petioles rather broad, narrowly decurrent ; flowers rather numerous, 

 racemose, about \-l in. long and f-f in. broad ; racemes terminal, 

 several- or many-flowered, moderately lax, 1-5 in. long; pedicels 

 alternate, spreading, curving upwards near the apex, -^-f in. long, 

 bracteate at the base ; bract ovate, dentate, broad at the base and 

 embracing the base of the pedicel, sessile, xV~4 ^^- ^^^S > calyx- 

 segments 5, oval, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, nearly equal, 

 more or less overlapping each other, minutely and closely ciliolate, 

 -xt~'k i"- lo^gj persistent ; corolla very tender, apparently lilac on 

 the lips, yellow on the shallow broad pocket and on the convex 

 glandular-papillose palate, otherwise glabrous ; lip widely diverg- 

 ing, |— 1- in. long ; stamens glabrous or nearly so, short ; anthers 

 cohering by pairs, one pair larger than the other ; filaments fili- 

 form ; capsules ovate-quadrate, compressed, subtruncate at the apex, 

 nearly glabrous, sparingly glandular, fV-yV ^^- loiiff) 6~i i^- broad; 

 valves nearly equal or somewhat unequal, scarcely or slightly 

 apiculate at the outer side of the apex, rounded on the outer side of 

 the base ; seeds, including the scariously winged border, ^V ^^- ^°^o' 

 oval-oblong. 



Cenxsai, Region : Calvinia Div. ; Nieuwoudtville, Leipoldt in Herh. Bolus, 

 9379! 



9. N. picta (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 176) ; an erect 

 herb, annual, rigid, branched a little from the base upAvards, 5-10 in. 

 high ; branches tetragonous, glabrous except at the apex, shining, 

 slender, wiry ; internodes mostly longer than the leaves ; leaves 

 opposite, glabrous, patent; lower leaves shortly petiolate, oblong- 

 elliptic, strongly toothed, rarely obscurely tootbed or nearly entire, 

 |— 1 in. long ; upper leaves sessile, lanceolate, acute at the apex, 

 strongly toothed or subpinnatifid-lobulate, |--f in. long ; teeth sharp 

 or strongly apiculate ; racemes loosely several-flowered, elongating, 

 1-3 in. long ; bracts linear or broader, alternate, entire or toothed, 

 obtuse or acute, patent or spreading, the lower leaf -like, the upper 

 smaller and glandular-puberulous ; pedicels rigidly filiform, erect- 

 patent or ascending, glandular-puberulous, ^-i in. long; calyx- 

 segments lanceolate-oblong or sublinear, rather obtuse, glandular- 

 puberulous, subequal, ^^-^ in. long; corolla rosy with a white 

 marking and yellow throat, ornamental, about |-|-in. in diam. ; seg- 

 ments of the upper lip oblong or rounded, obtuse, about i-A in. long, 

 subequal, erect-patent ; lower lip rounded, deeply excised, as long as 

 the upper ; spur or pouch subsaccate, conical, somewhat blunt with a 

 short narrow nipple at the end, about yV-r in. long; throat puberu- 

 lous ; capsule oblong, subtruncate at the apex, shortly and broadly 



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