Compilation
Borreria scabra

Annual unbranched or sparsely branched herb (3–)16–60 cm. tall, with 4-ribbed stems ± densely covered with spreading white hairs. Leaf-blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 2–7 cm. long, 0.35–2.2 cm. wide, acute at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, with ± long hairs on both surfaces and scabrid at the margins; true petiole absent; stipule-sheath 3 mm. long, densely hairy, with 7 setae 0.2–1.1 cm. long. Flowers in clusters at the nodes, up to 1.5–2 cm. in diameter in fruiting stage. Calyx-tube subcylindric, 2.5 mm. long, hairy above; lobes 4, ± equal, mostly lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 2–4 mm. long, 0.2–0.8 mm. wide, scabrid on the margins. Corolla white, sometimes with mauve streaks reaching into the throat, tube funnel-shaped, 3–8 mm. long; lobes triangular, 1.5–4.5 mm. long, 1–3 mm. wide, pubescent at the apex outside. Filaments exserted 1–3 mm. Style exserted 1–3.5 mm. Capsule pale, often streaked red-brown, ellipsoid, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, densely hairy. Seeds pale chestnut-coloured to deep blackish red, oblong-ellipsoid, 2.6–2.8 mm. long, 1.2–1.7 mm. wide, 0.8–1 mm. thick, with a deep narrow ventral groove, covered with a fine shallow reticulation. Fig. 51/23, p. 344.