XCV. BORAQINE^. 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. 

 Frod. X. p. 135. 



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, E. 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. — DO. Frod. 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. 



Order XCVI. LABIATjE. 



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. Emit 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 



