Celsia.] xcn. scrophulariace,e (hemsley and skan). 285 



move or less shortly tomentose on the underside, the lower leaves 

 petiolate sometimes pinnate with very small lateral leaflets, the upper 

 leaves smaller, sessile and cordate at the base. Raceme 12-18 in. long, 

 simple or branched ; bracts broadly cordate, irregularly dentate, acu- 

 minate, longer than the pedicels; pedicels 4^-f in. long; flowers very 

 large. Calyx 4-5 lin. long ; segments lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 sometimes slightly toothed near the apex. Corolla yellow. Filaments 

 all bearded ; anthers reniform. Capsule as long as or slightly shorter 

 than the calyx, glabrous, obovoid. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Air. 376, 

 partly. 



Wile land. Abyssinia : .Samen ; Mount Aber near Jenausa. 9000-10000 ft., 

 ScAiiwper, 2077 ! Begerneder ; Reb Valley, Sc/iimjier, 1400! and without precise 

 locality, Schimper, 866 ! 869 ! Uganda, 7000-9600 ft. : between Eldama Ravine 

 and upper Man plateau, Whyte I upper Mau plateau, Whyte ! Ruwenzori; Kivata, 

 Scott-Elliot, 7723 ! 



11. C. brevipedicellata, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 376. 

 Stem rather more than a yard high, simple, erect, leafy, sparingly 

 pilose ; lower internodes 1J-2 in. long, the upper |-1-| in. long. Leaves 

 oblong, obtuse, rounded at the base, biserrate, thinly pilose on the 

 underside; lower leaves \\ in. long, 5-7^ lin. broad, with a slender 

 petiole f in. long; upper leaves 5-9 \ lin. long, 2-J-3^ lin. broad, sessile. 

 Bracts 2-} F lin. long, 1^-lf lin. broad, lanceolate, irregularly serrate. 

 Pedicels 5 lin. long. Calyx-segments 2h lin. long, \ lin. broad, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute. Capsule slightly longer than the calyx, ovoid. — 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. C. 356 ; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 189. 



Mozamb. 3>ist. German East Africa: KaiMgwe ; Ruchigga, Bagshaive, 

 409 ; Kilimanjaro; in a wood by the Mue Brook, 57*. 0-7500 ft., Meyer, 286. 



A specimen (T'oUcens, 251) received from Berlin under this name has pedicels 

 7-8 lin. long and calyx-segments only 1 \-^h lin. long. 



6. NEMESIA, Yent. ; Benth. et Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. 931. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments scarcely imbricate. Corolla 2-lipped ; 

 upper lip 4-ficl ; anticous lip entire or emarginate, convex at the base 

 forming a palate ; tube produced in front into a single sac or spur. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous ; anticous filaments circumflex at the base ; 

 anthers 1 -celled by confluence, usually cohering in pairs. Style fili- 

 form. Ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule compressed contrary to 

 the septum, septicidal ; valves boat-shaped, subcarinate, obliquely trun- 

 cate or rounded at the apex Seeds 1- or 2-seriate, oblong, surrounded 

 by a membranous transparent wing ; testa reticulate or granular. 

 — Slender annual or perennial herbs or sometimes undershrubs. Leaves 

 opposite. Flowers racemose at the ends of the branches or more rarely 

 axillary and solitary ; pedicels ebracteolate. Corolla yellow, white, 

 violet or variously coloured. 



A genus of 49 species, all, except the following, South African. 



Corolla with a distinct rather slender spur 1-2 J lin. long 1. N. affinis. 



Corolla with a rounded sac 1 lin. broad . . . 2. N. dentata. 



