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usually with tufts of smaller ones in the axils, sessile, small. Flowers 

 mostly racemose, white or blue. — 25 species, dispersed. 



11. 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. — Fl. Cap. iii. ^;. 564. 



Small annuals. Leaves alternate or subopposite ; small, narrow, upper 

 ones longest. Flowers terminal, sessile or pedicelled, small. — 4 species, 

 dispersed. 



12. LSPTOCODON, Sond. 



Character of Microcodon, except : Capsule quite inferior, 

 2-celled.— i^/. Cap. iii.j?. 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-ce'lled, opening 

 by as many apical valves ; valves septiferous in the middle ; 

 cells, when 5, opposite the calyx-lobes. — Fl. 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 forkei;!, often long, terminal or axillary; pedicels slender. 

 Flowers drooping, mostly blue ; capsules erect. — 46 Cape species, dis- 

 persed. 



14. PRISMATOCARPUS, L'Her. 



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. — Fl. Cap. iii. 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 



