BORAGO orientalis. 



Oriental Borage. 



I'ENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



492. 



Nat.-ord. BoRAaiNEJE. Jussieu gen.2B. Div. IV. Brotm prod, 

 BORAGO. CaL 5-partitu8. Cor. hypogyna rotata 5-fida, plerumi 



fjaux instructa 5 sq __,_^ , ^^.w..^.«, 



prominulis in ejusdem Jaciniarum basi; extr^ hiulci«:) squamul^e^ohtmm 

 emarginatae. Stigma 1 : (fructus gymno-tetraspermus: J sent, rugosa, 

 calyce connivente tecta. Herb^e plerumque asperifolia. Juss. 1, c. 131. 



B. orientalis, cafycibus tubo corollse brevioribus^ foliis cordatis, Linn. sp. 

 pi. I. 197. 



Borago orientalis. MilL dicU ed. 8. n. 2. HorU Kern, 1. 184. ed. 2. 1. 297. 



"w/M prod. Jl. grac. 122. FL grceca 63. tab. 175. fVilld. sp. pi. I, 



78. 



Borago constantlnopolltana. MiiL ic. 1 . 45. t. 68. 



Borago constantinopolitana, flore reflexo caeruleo, calyce vesicario. Toum. 



cor. 6. Ejusd. it. 2. 13. cum icone. Buxb. cent. 5. 16. t. 30. 



Radix tiiberosay perennis, extiis nigra. Caulis herbaceus, erectiis, pedalis 

 aut sesqidpedaliSf anguiato-teres, hispidus^ purpurascens ; supeme pantculato* 

 ramosusyjbliolosus. Fol. radicalia maxima^ longius petiolata^ cordatoy acuta^ 

 undulata, reticuIato-Denosa ; utrinque setoso-scabrd^ subtHs pallidiora : caalins 

 minora, alternay brevius petiolata; superiora ovato4anceoiata, basi elongata, 

 angustata, subsessilia. Petioli canaiiculati^ subretrormm hispidi, ban wr- 



finnntes. Racemi in apicibus ramorum^ gemini, breves, ptlosi, nutantes^ 

 racteati. Bracteae ovat^e, obtusiB, pilosee^ pedicellis breviores* Floren copiosi, 

 purpuro-ci^ruleiy cernui. Calycis lacini^ obovato-oblonga, pilosise, erectce. 

 Corollae tubus calyce duplo fere longiory nlims, sursHm ampliatus; faux 

 intus pilosa, xmlvulis brevious rotundatis, emarginatis^ pubescent ibus, albis 

 coronata; limbus purpuro-cceruleust tubo longior, laciniis linearibus, subfUg 

 pilosis, basi horizon tatibus, apice revolutis. Staxn^Jauce inserta. Umbo ex- 

 planato brevio7'a, subulata, erecta, conniveniia^ incarnata, intus pilosa* 

 Antherae incumbentes, oblonga, nigra^t Germ, parotimf 4f^dum* Stylus 

 Jillformis, roseusy glaber^ staminibus parnm longior^ Stlg. Qbtusum^ nigrum^ 

 Smith Flor. Greeca. I. c. 



Indica, zeylanica, and africana^ three former species of 

 this genus, have been lately withdrawn by Mr. Brown, 

 and combined into a separate group by the title of Tri- 

 CHosDESMA, distinguished from Borago by a considerable 

 difference in the structures of the anther and fruit, as well 

 as by not having the remarkable appendices which crown the 

 mouth of the tube of the corolla in that. A reform by which 

 Borago is reduced to five or six recorded species, all, we 

 believe, belonging exclusively to the Levant and the Coast of 



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