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usually with tufts of smaller ones in the axils, sessile, small. Flowers 
mostly racemose, white or blue.—25 species, dispersed. 
1l. MICROCODON, A. DC. 
Calyx 5-cleft ; tube ovoid or spherical. Corolla 5-lobed at 
the apex, small, cylindrical. Stamens free; filaments very 
slender, not broad-based. Style filiform; stigmas 5. Cap- 
sule 5-celled, half-superior, opening by 5 valves at top; cells 
alternating with the calyx-lobes.—#1. Cap. iii. p. 564. 
Small annuals. Leaves alternate or subopposite; small, narrow, upper 
ones longest. Flowers terminal, sessile or pedicelled, small.—4 species, 
dispersed. 
12. LEPTOCODON, Sond. 
Character of MMicrocodon, except: Capsule quite inferior, 
2-celled.—F1. Cap. iii. p. 584, 
A small annual with the aspect of Microcodon. 
13. WAHLENBERGIA, Schrad. 
Calyx 5-3-fid. Corolla 5-3-lobed at the apex, rarely 5- 
cleft to the middle, funnel-shaped bell-shaped or tubular. 
Stamens 5-3, free ; filaments broad at base. Style included, 
pilose above ; stigmas 5-2. Capsule 5-3-2-celled, opening 
by as many apical valves; valves septiferous in the middle; 
cells, when 5, opposite the calyx-lobes.—#7. Cap. iii. p. 566. 
A very large, widely-dispersed genus, chiefly from the Southern hemi- 
sphere. Annual or perennial herbs, rarely halfshrubs. Leaves rarely 
opposite, generally more numerous and larger in the lower half of stem. 
Peduncles forked, often long, terminal or axillary; pedicels slender. 
Flowers drooping, mostly blue; capsules erect.—46 Cape species, dis- 
persed. 
14. PRISMATOCARPUS, L’ Hér. 
Calyx 5-lobed ; tube cylindrical, narrow, elongate, 5-nerved, 
the nerves alternating with the lobes. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
rarely bell-shaped, or with a cylindrical tube, 5-lobed or 5-fid. 
Ovary quite inferior, 2-celled. Base of the style persistent ; 
stigmas 2. Capsule cylindrical or 5-angled, 2-celled, bursting 
first at the apex; then the calyx-lobes falling off, splitting 
from top to bottom into 5 narrow segments.— #1. Cap. iil. p. 
585. 
Rigid undershrubs or herbs, with alternate narrow leaves. Flowers ter- 
minal, solitary or 2-3 together, sessile or subsessile——14 species, dispersed. 
15. ROELLA, Linn. 
Calyx 5-fid; tube cvlindrical or ovoid-oblong. Corolla 
