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Calyx usually deeply 5-cleft; lobes narrow, subvalvate. Corollatube narrow at the base, then suddenly expanded into a long throat; limb spreading, oblique, 5-lobed; lobes flat, nearly equal, rounded, the two upper outside in æstivation. Stamens 4, didynamous, attached near the base of the corolla, included; filaments filiform; anthers transverse, hispid or ciliate, 1-celled by confluence, those of the two smaller posticous ones often empty. Style filiform; stigma small, emarginate. Capsule short, compressed at the top contrary to the septum, obtuse or emarginate, septicidally 2-valved; valves 2-cleft, adhering to the placentiferous column at the base. Seeds numerous, small, obovoid or depressed-spherical; testa reticulated; funicle sometimes dilated; embryo straight or slightly curved, cotyledons ovate. —Dwarf dense often glandular-hairy spinescent under shrubs or rigid herbs. Leaves alternate, crowded, often narrow, 1-nerved. Flowers sessile or very shortly stalked, axillary, 2-bracteolate. Corolla usually veined.

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Calyx usually deeply 5-cleft; lobes narrow, subvalvate. Corollatube narrow at the base, then suddenly expanded into a long throat; limb spreading, oblique, 5-lobed; lobes flat, nearly equal, rounded, the two upper outside in æstivation. Stamens 4, didynamous, attached near the base of the corolla, included; filaments filiform; anthers transverse, hispid or ciliate, 1-celled by confluence, those of the two smaller posticous ones often empty. Style filiform; stigma small, emarginate. Capsule short, compressed at the top contrary to the septum, obtuse or emarginate, septicidally 2-valved; valves 2-cleft, adhering to the placentiferous column at the base. Seeds numerous, small, obovoid or depressed-spherical; testa reticulated; funicle sometimes dilated; embryo straight or slightly curved, cotyledons ovate. —Dwarf dense often glandular-hairy spinescent under shrubs or rigid herbs. Leaves alternate, crowded, often narrow, 1-nerved. Flowers sessile or very shortly stalked, axillary, 2-bracteolate. Corolla usually veined.

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Calyx usually deeply 5-cleft; lobes narrow, subvalvate. Corollatube narrow at the base, then suddenly expanded into a long throat; limb spreading, oblique, 5-lobed; lobes flat, nearly equal, rounded, the two upper outside in æstivation. Stamens 4, didynamous, attached near the base of the corolla, included; filaments filiform; anthers transverse, hispid or ciliate, 1-celled by confluence, those of the two smaller posticous ones often empty. Style filiform; stigma small, emarginate. Capsule short, compressed at the top contrary to the septum, obtuse or emarginate, septicidally 2-valved; valves 2-cleft, adhering to the placentiferous column at the base. Seeds numerous, small, obovoid or depressed-spherical; testa reticulated; funicle sometimes dilated; embryo straight or slightly curved, cotyledons ovate. —Dwarf dense often glandular-hairy spinescent under shrubs or rigid herbs. Leaves alternate, crowded, often narrow, 1-nerved. Flowers sessile or very shortly stalked, axillary, 2-bracteolate. Corolla usually veined.