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Annual or perennial herbs, usually move or less hispid. Leaves alternate, entire, radical petioled, cauline sessile. Flowers small, blue or white or yellow, in scorpioid simple or branched racemes, destitute of bracts, or in the axils of the upper leaves, rarely solitary and terminal. Calyx 5-lobed or -partite; lobes narrow, hardly altered in fruit. Corolla with a cylindrical tube partly closed with 5 small scales in the throat; limb spreading, 5-lobed; lobes contorted in the bud. Stamens 5, affixed to the corolla-tube, included or exserted; anthers ovate or oblong. Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style filiform. Nutlets 4, ovoid-oblong, smooth and shining, attached by a small basal area.