Nemesia linearis Vent.

Annual, 0.1-0.6 m high. Stems erect, well branched, tufted at base, leafy, herbaceous and glabrous above; plant with foetid smell. Leaves shortly petiolate to sessile; blade linear-lanceolate, 12-38 x 1.5-12.0 mm, apex acute, lower leaves with margins dentate, upper ones entire. Flowers: in many-flowered, capitate racemes, longer in fruit, apex obtuse, base narrowed or obtuse, covered with minute hairs, 12-230 mm long, sessile and globular or dot-like; bracts entire; spur 3-4 mm long, cylindric, obtuse, somewhat curved; corolla with upper lobes oblong; white, pink or mauve with purple veins, palate bi-convex, yellow-orange; Aug.-Dec. Fruit an oblong to ovoid capsule, 4-14 x 4.0-8.5 mm, apex slightly contracted, not horned, valves obliquely truncate.