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Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary or cymose, usually conspicuous. Calyx tubular or cup-shaped, 5- or rarely 4-lobed. Corolla subrotate or campanulateor tubular or funnel-shaped; lobes 5–4, in species not found in New Zealand often with folds between the lobes. Stamens 5–4, inserted on the corolla-tube, included; anthers oblong or ovate. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 parietal placentas; style short or almost wanting; stigmas 2, persistent, recurved; ovules numerous. Capsule stalked or sessile, ellipsoid to narrow-oblong, 2-valved to the base. Seeds small, globose or oblong.