296 XCIV. PLUMBAGINE^. 



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. VOGELIA, 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, linear, glandu- 

 lar Avithin. Utricle linear- oblong, 5-angled, splitting in 5 

 valves.— Z)(7. Prod, xil p. 695 ; Rarv. Thes. Cap. t. 198. 



Erect, branching unclershrubs. Leaves small, scurfy. Flowers in dense 

 terminal spikes. — 1 Cape species, V. Africana^ Lam., a native of the 

 Northern frontier and Namaqualand. 



3. STATICE, 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, fihform. Utricle irregularly burst- 

 ing.— i)a 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. 



Order XCV. BORAGINE^. 



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 solitary ; 

 style single, simple or once or tmce 2-fid. Fruit either fleshy 

 or dry, drupe-like or nut-like. Seeds pendulous, filling the 

 cavity ; albumen little or ; 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. 



