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* NEMESIA floribunda. 

 Many-flowered Nemesia. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Scrophulabiace^;. Tribus Hemimeride^e. Bentham. 



NEMESIA. Calyx 5-sepalus. Corolla basi saccata vel calcarata, limbo 

 personato bilabiato, labio superiore 4-fido, inferiore integro vel emarginato, palato 

 convexo. Stamina 4, didynama, inferiora longiora, basi circumflexa, superiora 

 cingentia. Anther ee uniloculares, per paria saepissime coheerentes. Capsula 

 compressa, septicido-bivalvis, valvulis navicularibus subcarinatis apice oblique 

 truncatis, latere exteriore acuto vel breviter cornuto, rarius apice rotundatis. 



Semina oblonga, ala membranacea cincta. Herbs Austro- Africance annua, 



rarius perennes vel suffrutescentes. Folia opposita. Flores racemosi vel 

 rarius axillares. (Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. 2. p. 18.) 



N. floribunda ; erecta. subglabra ; foliis infimis petiolatis ovatis superioribus 

 subsessilibus ovatis oblongis lanceolatisve plerisque dentatis, corollae laciniis 

 4 superioribus labio inferiori subaequilongis, palato tenuissime 1 pubescente, 

 calcare subrecto obtuso labio inferiori subaequilongo, capsula ovali-oblonga 

 valvulis oblique truncatis angulo exteriore acuto. 



N. floribunda. Lehm. Ind. Sent. Hort. Hamb, 1833. 



N. afflnis. Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. 2. p. 21. 



" An upright branching annual, nine inches to a loot 

 high, nearly glabrous in all its parts, or bearing a few short 

 hairs in the upper part of the plant. Leaves opposite, the 

 lower ones borne on short foot-stalks, the upper ones sessile, 

 all of them in the variety before me usually oval, some- 

 times oblong, or somewhat lanceolate in wild specimens, and 

 generally irregularly toothed in the margin. Racemes ter- 

 minal, loose. Peduncles one-flowered, alternate and solitary 

 in the axilla of a small ovate bract or flower leaf, about an 

 inch long, without any bracteoles, and usually bearing a few 

 hairs. Calyx formed of five linear sepals, free from the 

 base. Tube of the corolla bearing a linear-conical obtuse 



* Apparently from ye/jiriinc division, in allusion to the lobes of the upper 

 lip of the corolla. 



