Misopates Raf.

Herbs, annual, simple or branched, glabrous or glandular-pilose. Leaves simple, entire, usually opposite below, becoming alternate above. Flowers zygomorphic in terminal racemes, or solitary-axillary. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes longer than corolla tube, markedly unequal; corolla tubular, tube broadly cylindric, wide mouthed, villous within. Fruit a capsule ovoid, opening with 2 pores. Seeds somewhat flattened, one face with a wide, raised, papillose border, the other smooth, keeled and produced into a narrow wing.

Worldwide: Three species from the Mediterranean to North West India.

Malawi: 1 taxon.