XCV. BORAGINER. 301 
with short scales; lobes of limb obtuse. Stamens included. 
Stigma entire or emarginate. Nuts 4, laterally affixed to a 
central column, imperforate at base, 3-cornered or compressed, 
the dorsal surface margined, or more usually girt with 1-3 
rows of hooked bristles, otherwise smooth or tubercled.—DC. 
Prod. x. p. 185. 
Annual or perennial herbs, simple or branched. Leaves oblong, lanceo- 
late or linear. Racemes bracteate; corolla blue or white.—2 Cape species. 
13. CYNOGLOSSUM, Tourn. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped; tube about as 
long as the calyx, the throat closed by blunt scales; lobes 
very obtuse. Stamens included. Stigma entire or emargi- 
nate. Nuts 4, imperforate at base, affixed to the style-base, 
roundish, convex or depressed, not margined, covered all over 
with hooked bristles—DC. Prod. x. p. 146. 
Herbs or rarely undershrubs. Leaves entire. Racemes mostly spicate, 
bracteate or ebracteate ; corolla blue purple or white.—2 Cape species, 1 
with bracteate, the other with ebracteate racemes. 
14. TRICHODESMA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted or deeply 5-fid, mostly enlarging in fruit, the 
lobes broad-based, taper-pointed. Corolla scarcely longer 
than the calyx, the tube widely cylindrical, the throat without 
scales, the lobes broad-based, taper-pointed, spirally twisted in 
bud. Stamens partly exserted; anthers much longer than 
the filaments, conniving in a cone, villous at back, with long, 
subulate points. Stigma subsimple. Nuts 4-1, imperforate 
at base, attached by the whole inner face to the central, 
quadrangular column.—D@C. Prod. x. p. 171; Thes. Cap. t. 40. 
Erect, branching, roughly pubescent herbs. Leaves alternate or oppo- 
site, sessile, entire. Pedicels lateral, subracemose. Nuts various; in the 
Cape species bordered with hooked or swollen bristles.—2 Cape species, 
Eastern. 
-Orver XCVI. LABIAT A, 
Calyx tubular, equal or 2-lipped, persistent. Corolla 2- 
lipped, upper lip entire or 2-fid, often vaulted, lower 3-lobed. 
Stamens 4, didynamous (2 sometimes abortive or absent) ; 
anthers 2-celled, cells sometimes confluent or 1 abortive. 
Ovary free, deeply 4-lobed ; ovules solitary ; style 1, from the 
base of the ovarian lobes; stigma 2-fid. Fruit of 4 separable 
nuts, in the base of the persistent calyx. Seed erect, without 
albumen.—Herbs or shrubs, with 4 angled stems and strictly 
opposite leaves. Flowers in short, whorl-like cymules in the 
