Ohlendorffia
(named in honour of Dr. C. F. Ohlendorff, of Holstein). SYN. Chilostigma. ORD. Scrophularineae. A genus comprising nine species of small greenhouse shrubs, rarely herbs, depressed, prostrate or tufted, now regarded as a synonym of Aptosimum; one is a native of Nubia, and the rest are found in tropical Africa. Flowers sessile, axillary, bibracteolate; calyx deeply five-cleft, with narrow, sub-valvate lobes; corolla usually bluish, venose, with an enlarged throat, and a spreading, oblique, five-cleft limb; stamens four. Leaves alternate, clustered, entire, one-nerved, oblong-spathulate, linear, or acicular. O. procumbens, the only species known to cultivation, thrives in well-drained sandy peat. It is propagated by cuttings of half-ripened shoots, inserted in gentle heat; or by seeds. O. procumbens (procumbent). fl. blue; corolla eight lines long, pubescent without, with a short narrow tube and a funnel-shaped limb. August. l. three to four lines long, not opposite, much crowded, petiolate, obovate, glabrous, rather thick, very obtuse, shortly mucronate. h. 2 1/2ft. South Africa, 1836. Undershrub. (B. R. 1882, under name of Aptosimum depressum.)