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Calyx with an ovate or turbinate tube, and a 2–4-lobed limb, and sometimes accessory teeth in the recesses of the primary lobes. Corolla salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, 4 lobed. Stigma bifid or undivided. Capsule crowned, 2-celled; nuts 1-seeded, dividing into 2 parts from the apex; the one part closed by the adnate dissepiment, the other open. Seed oval-oblong, marked inside by a longitudinal furrow. Herbs or sub-shrubs, stems or branches tetragonal. Leaves opposite. Stipules combined with the petioles, sheathing, fringed by numerous bristles. Flowers axillary, sessile, crowded.

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Calyx with an ovate or turbinate tube, and a 2–4-lobed limb, and sometimes accessory teeth in the recesses of the primary lobes. Corolla salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, 4 lobed. Stigma bifid or undivided. Capsule crowned, 2-celled; nuts 1-seeded, dividing into 2 parts from the apex; the one part closed by the adnate dissepiment, the other open. Seed oval-oblong, marked inside by a longitudinal furrow. Herbs or sub-shrubs, stems or branches tetragonal. Leaves opposite. Stipules combined with the petioles, sheathing, fringed by numerous bristles. Flowers axillary, sessile, crowded.

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Calyx with an ovate or turbinate tube, and a 2–4-lobed limb, and sometimes accessory teeth in the recesses of the primary lobes. Corolla salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, 4 lobed. Stigma bifid or undivided. Capsule crowned, 2-celled; nuts 1-seeded, dividing into 2 parts from the apex; the one part closed by the adnate dissepiment, the other open. Seed oval-oblong, marked inside by a longitudinal furrow. Herbs or sub-shrubs, stems or branches tetragonal. Leaves opposite. Stipules combined with the petioles, sheathing, fringed by numerous bristles. Flowers axillary, sessile, crowded.