296 XCIV. PLUMBAGINEAD. 
Utricle membranous, tipped with the hardened style-base, 
circumscissed at base, thence to the middle splitting into valves, 
which cohere at apex. Seed ovate or oblong.—DC. Prod. xii. 
p. 690. 
Herbs or shrubs, often climbing. Flowers in spikes.—2 Cape species, 
dispersed. 
2. VOGELTIA, Lam. 
Calyx ovate, vertically 5-winged, contracted at the mouth, 
composed of 5 broad, strongly ribbed, papery, cross ridged and 
furrowed, slightly cohering sepals. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
the tube exserted; limb'5-parted. Stamens 5, hypogynous. 
Ovary linear ; style filiform ; stigmas 5, long, lear, glandu- 
lar within. Utricle linear-oblong, 5-angled, splitting in 5 
valves.—DC. Prod. xii. p. 695; Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 198. 
Erect, branching undershrubs. Leaves small, scurfy. Flowers in dense 
terminal spikes.—1 Cape species, V. Africana, Lam., a native of the 
Northern frontier and Namaqualand. 
3. STATICEH, Willd. 
Calyx mostly funnel-shaped, with a dry, membranous, 5- 
nerved, 5- or rarely 10-lobed limb. Corolla of 5, either quite 
separate or slightly cohering petals (or very rarely gamopeta- 
lous). Stamens 5, attached to the claws of the petals. Ovary 
oblong or linear; styles 5, filiform. Utricle irregularly burst- 
ing.— DC. Prod. xii. p. 634. 
Perennial herbs of seacoasts and salt ground, with a thick rhizome and 
many radical leaves, or branching undershrubs. Leaves coriaceous, mostly 
entire. Scapes branching, mostly cymose, the flowers secund, fugacious.— 
Several Cape species. 
Orper XCV. BORAGINEA. 
Calyx 5-4-parted, mostly persistent, sometimes enlarged in 
fruit. Corolla 5-lobed, regular or subirregular. Stamens as 
many as corolla-lobes, alternate with them. Ovary normally 
of 2 bilocular carpels, either combined in a solid body, or 4- 
lobed or -parted (like 4 separate carpels); ovules ag 
style single, simple or once or twice 2-fid. Fruit either fleshy 
or dry, drupe-like or nut-like. Seeds pendulous, filling the 
cavity ; albumen little or 0; cotyledons leafy, flat or plaited. 
—A large Order in both temperate and tropical zones. Leaves 
alternate, very rarely opposite. Pubescence mostly rough. 
Inflorescence a scorpioid cyme, or 1-sided raceme. 
