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Bristly hardy perennial, annual and biennial herbs or undershrubs, with long narrow alternate Lvs. and 1-sided simple or cymose bracted racemes: fls. yellow, purple, or white, tube-like, or urn-shaped, sessile or with short pedicel, with 5 very short corolla-lobes; calyx 5-parted or cut; corolla-throat dilated or contracted; stamens 5, inserted midway on corolla-tube, mostly included; ovary with 4 distinct lobes, the style filiform and stigma small: nutlets 4 or fewer, erect or incurved, smooth and shining or less frequently tuberculate.—Species 70, Medit. region and the Himalayas. They are adapted to borders and rock-gardens; of simple cult, requirements. The perennial kinds are increased by cuttings in summer, in a frame; the annuals and biennials by seeds. Most of the cult, species do not ordinarily much exceed 1 ft. in height and many of them are lower than that.

Bristly hardy perennial, annual and biennial herbs or undershrubs, with long narrow alternate Lvs. and 1-sided simple or cymose bracted racemes: fls. yellow, purple, or white, tube-like, or urn-shaped, sessile or with short pedicel, with 5 very short corolla-lobes; calyx 5-parted or cut; corolla-throat dilated or contracted; stamens 5, inserted midway on corolla-tube, mostly included; ovary with 4 distinct lobes, the style filiform and stigma small: nutlets 4 or fewer, erect or incurved, smooth and shining or less frequently tuberculate.—Species 70, Medit. region and the Himalayas. They are adapted to borders and rock-gardens; of simple cult, requirements. The perennial kinds are increased by cuttings in summer, in a frame; the annuals and biennials by seeds. Most of the cult, species do not ordinarily much exceed 1 ft. in height and many of them are lower than that.

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