Caccinia
(named in honour of G. Caccini, an Italian savant). SYN. Anisathera. ORD. Boragineae. A small genus (five species) of hardy, perennial herbs, natives of the Orient. Flowers pedicellate, at length scattered; calyx five-cleft; corolla salver-shaped, with a slender tube and five spreading lobes; stamens five; racemes elongated, bracteate. Nutlets four, or by abortion fewer. Leaves alternate, the margins scabrous-ciliated. C. glauca, the only species in cultivation, thrives in any fairly good soil, and may be propagated by divisions.
C. glauca (greyish). fl. in racemose cymes; calyx lobes greenish-brown; corolla tube not exserted, the lobes violet-blue, turning red, 1/2in. long, oblong-lanceolate. l. 4in. to 8in. long, shortly petiolate, or the upper ones sessile, elliptic-oblong, sparsely tubercled. Stem below as thick as the thumb. h. 1ft. to 3ft. Persia and Afghanistan, 1880. (B.M. 6870.)