Description :

• Robust undershrubs, ± glabrous except for puberulous inflorescence; branches narrowly 4-winged by decurrence of petioles
• Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate to lanceolate, crenulate-serrulate, sometimes biauriculate at base
• Flowers many, pendulous, pedicellate, in axils of bracts, grouped in terminal, secund, paniculate cymes
• Calyx tubular, 5-partite, much shorter than corolla tube, chartaceous; tube short; lobes imbricate
• Corolla tubular, irregular or subregular, 5-lobed, trumpet-shaped; tube long, incurved or ± straight; limb strongly oblique or ± equal; lobes short, obtuse, subequal, ± spreading, with stalked glands on inner face and margin; 2 posterior lobes exterior in bud
• Stamens 4, didynamous, glabrous, exserted; filaments thickish, linear; arising a third to halfway down corolla tube; anthers erect, bithecate, with parallel thecae; connective thick; staminode obsolete
• Ovary bilocular, ovoid; ovules many; style terete, glabrous, becoming long-exserted; stigma shortly bifid or subcapitate
• Fruit an ovoid, ± oblique, septicidal capsule, with entire valves
• Seeds subovoid, bluntly angular, subreticulately veined, minutely papillose; testa rather thickly spongy

Nomenclature:

• Phygelius E.Mey. ex Benth.
  • Bentham: 53 (1836)
  • Hiern: 212 (1904)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa : Species 2, widespread, but not in Western Cape