Nemesia picta Schltr.

An erect herb, annual, rigid, branched a little from the base upwards, 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 toothed or nearly entire, 4/5-1 in. long; upper leaves sessile, lanceolate, acute at the apex, strongly toothed or subpinnatifid-lobulate, 3/5-4/5 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, 1/8-1/2 in. long; calyx-segments lanceolate-oblong or sublinear, rather obtuse, glandular-puberulous, subequal, 1/10-1/5 in. long; corolla rosy with a white marking and yellow throat, ornamental, about 1/3-1/2 in. in diam.; segments of the upper lip oblong or rounded, obtuse, about 1/6-1/4 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 1/12-2/7 in. long; throat puberulous; capsule oblong, subtruncate at the apex, shortly and broadly excised, unequal and round at the base, glabrous, 1/4-2/5 in. long, 1/6-1/4 in. broad; valves with diverging scarcely horned tips; seeds suborbicular, the body verruculose-appendiculate, wings snowy-white.