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Identification
Nemesia fruticans (Thunb.) Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for NEMESIA fœtens Vent. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
NEMESIA fœtens Vent. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Jard. Malmais. 41, t. 41;—Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 80; Duvau in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1 sér. viii. 180, t. 27, fig. 6; Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 22.
Antirrhinum capense Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. 105, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 481; not of Burm. f.
Antirrhinum fruticans Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. 105, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 483.
NEMESIA linearis Vent. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Jard. Malmais. sub n. 41; Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 21, and in DC. Prodr. x. 263.
Linaria fruticans Spreng. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 789.
Linaria capensis Spreng. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], l.c. ii. 796.
NEMESIA Thunbergii G. Don [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Gen. Syst. iv. 534.
NEMESIA natalitia Sonder [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 82 (“palato glabro”).
NEMESIA capensis O. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 237.
NEMESIA fruticans Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 22, and in DC. Prodr. x. 263.
Nemesia Burchell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Trav. S. Afr. i. 318 note.
Information
a decumbent or ascending undershrub or suffruticose herb, perennial, much branched, shrubby and usually tufted at the base, herbaceous above, glabrous or nearly so, 4–24 in. high; bark cracking, grey-ashy; smell disagreeable; branches tetragonous, furrowed, leafy, brownish below, dull green above; axillary shoots often very short and but little developed; leaves opposite, sometimes quasi fasciculate-verticillate, usually linear or lanceolate, obtuse or pointed at the apex, somewhat narrowed or obtuse at the base, sessile or subsessile or the lower shortly petiolate, entire or dentate, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, 1/16– 2/5 in. broad, spreading; internodes mostly about equalling the leaves; racemes terminal, several- or many-flowered, subcorymbose or oblong, 1/2–9 in. long, elongating; bracts alternate, entire, sessile, smaller than the leaves; pedicels inserted in the axils of the bracts or fascicled in a subverticillate manner, more or less glandular-pilose, 1/3– 3/4 in. long; calyx-segments narrowly oval or linear, obtuse, 1/10– 1/5 in. long, puberulous or subglabrous; corolla pink, blue, lavender or white with yellow crest; upper lip about 1/4 in. long; lobes oblong, rounded at the apex, about half as long as the upper lip; lower lip about as long as the upper; throat yellow; spur yellow, cylindrical, obtuse, straight or slightly curved, 1/6– 1/4 in. long; palate closed with two protuberances, bearded; capsules oblong or ovoid, 1/5– 3/5 in. long, 1/6– 1/3 in. broad, somewhat contracted or scarcely so about the apex, unequally rounded or obtuse at the base; valves rounded or subtruncate at the apex, usually not horned, glabrous or viscid-puberulous. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Prince Albert Div.; Kendo (Kandos Mountain), 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 897 b! Div.? at Klip Drift, in the Great Karroo, Schlechter, 2247! Somerset Div.; banks of the Little Fish River, near Somerset, MacOwan, 1634! Graaff Reinet Div.; hills near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 68! Snowy mountains, Burke, 536! Murraysburg Div.; banks of streams near Murraysburg, 4000 ft., Tyson, 280! Beaufort West Div.; Nieuwveld Mountains near Beaufort West, 3000–5000 ft., Drège, 897 a! Sutherland Div.; at the Great Riet River, Burchell, 1371! Fraserburg Div.; near Fraserburg, 4200 ft., Bolus, 7892! Aliwal North Div.; Aliwal North, Kuntze. Albert Div.; Burghersdorp, Kuntze. Prieska Div.; by the Orange River, Burchell, 1638! VAR. β: Albert Div., Cooper, 1784!COAST REGION Humansdorp Div.; hill-side at Humansdorp, 400 ft., Galpin, 4357! Uniondale Div., Long Kloof, near Ongelegen, Bolus, 2408! Uitenhage Div.; in stony places near Uitenhage, 250 ft., Schlechter, 2540! and without precise locality, Zeyher, 139! Albany Div.; Sidbury, Burke! Bedford Div.; near the Fish River, Burke! King Williamstown Div.; mountains near Buffalo River, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 734! Mount Coke, 2000 ft., Sim, 1426! Queenstown Div.; Klipplaats River, Ecklon! Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 768! Queenstown plains, 3500 ft., Galpin, 1554! VAR. β: Cape Div.; North Hoek forest, Milne, 197! East London Div.; on grassy slopes by the coast, near East London, 50 ft., Galpin, 3326! 3929! Eastern districts, Cooper, 214!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; between Nquamakwe and Engcobo, 3600 ft., Bolus, 8755! Natal; South Downs, Weenen county, 4000–5000 ft., Wood, 4374! near Durban, Gueinzius, 514! Cooper, 2825! near the Tugela River, 4000 ft., Wood, 3622! Sundays River, Nelson, 2! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 383! VAR. β: Natal; Cathkin Peak, 8000–10000 ft., Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4876! near Durban, Grant! Peddie! Plant, 17! Schlechter, 2928! between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 2185! 30–60 miles from the sea, 2000–3000 ft., Sutherland!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Modder River, Kuntze. Orange River Colony; by the Vaal River, Burke! Besters Vlei, 5300 ft., Bolus, 8224! 8225! near Bethulie, 4000 ft., Flanagan, 1504! Basutoland; Mout-aux-Sources, 7000–8000 ft., Flanagan, 2083! Transvaal; Heidelberg, Vandeleur! near Pretoria, Kirk! McLea, 83! Rehmann, 4265! Elands River, Lydenburg, Nelson, 140! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1064! Menaars Farm, on the Boshveld, Rehmann, 4877! Jeppestown Ridges, near Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6057! Umlomati Valley, near Barberton, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1091! Elands Fontein, Barret-Hamilton! Johannesburg, Rand, 721! 880! Maquasi Hills, Nelson, 232! VAR. β: Orange River Colony; without precise locality, Cooper, 717! Transvaal; Rhenoster Kop, Burke! and Klein Olifants River, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 3798!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! var. β: Robinson! Zeyher, 1266! Harvey, 139!
Notes
N. capensis, var. ecalcarata, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 237, with the corolla pouched, and either acute or very shortly spurred at the base, is unknown to me. It was collected by Kuntze at Beaufort West, in Beaufort West Div.

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