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TOURNEFORTIA fruticosa. 
Sweet-scented Tournefortia. 
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PENTÁNDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BORAGINER. Jussieu gen. 128. Brown prod. 1. 492, 
TOURNEFORTIA. Cal. 5-parütug Cor. hypocrateriformis (v. sub- 
rotata), fauce nudà. Stam. inclusa. Stig. peltatum, subconicum. Bucca 
dipyrena, ossiculis dispermis, Frutices volubiles v. erecti. Fol. scabra v. 
tomentosa, integra. Spice secunde, ebracteate, sepiùs cymose. Brown 
prod. 1. 496. 
T. fruticosa, caule fruticoso, foliis petiolatis, corollis hypocrateriformibus. 
Lin. suppl. 132; (sub MESSERSCHMIDIA). 
Tournefortia Messerschmidia. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 31. 
Messerschmidia fruticosa. Linn. suppl. 132. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 789. Ejusd. 
enum. 1.188. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 303. 
Rami axillares, flexuosi, virides, teretes, hispidi. Fol. divaricata, 
elongato-lanceolata, saturati? viridia, hispida, nitida, S-uncialia v. ultrà 
latitudine unciali v. infra, inferné subovata superué longiùs attenuata: pets 
pluriés brevior laminá, à supino canaliculatus. Panicule ebracteate, ramu- 
lorum summorum terminales, dichotomo-eymose, divaricate, flexuosa, flore 
solitario in singulis furcis sessile; spicule dichotome, pedunculate, recurve, 
floribus parvulis bifuridm v. disticho-secundis, approximatis, rachide ap- 
pressé villosá. Cal. parvus, herbaceus, pubescens, campanulatus, aliquotiès 
brevior tubo corolla, persistens, segmentis acuminatis. Cor. hypocraterij 
mis, luteo-virens, extus pubescens; tubus rectus, tereti-angulosus; faux in- 
‚flatior, saturate virens, intis ad orificium plicis 5 cum laciniis alternantibus 
notata: limbus pallidé et squalidé lutescens, stellato-patens wstivatione 
valvari infracto-connivente, laciniis acuminatis undulatis intis glabris. 
Anth. subsessiles, fusce, sagittato-oblonge, fauce incluse. Stylus colum- 
naris, teres, glaber, crassiusculus: stig. peltato-capitatum, virens, conicum, 
villosum, obtusum, basi planum: germ. calyce inclusum, viride, rugosum, 
umbilicatum, subrotundum, basi disco glanduloso luteo cinctum. 
The genus Mrsserscumipia, where our plant formerly 
ranked, has been incorporated by Mr. Brown with Toun- 
NEFORTIA, technically distinguished in the Prodromus of the 
Flora of New Holland among its co-ordinate Boraginea 
by a definition of which the following is a version: 
Calyx 5-parted: corolla hypocrateriform or nearly rotate 
smooth (naked) in the faux: stamens enclosed: stigma 
peltate, subconical: berry dipyrenous (twin-stoned), each 
stone (ossicle) containing two seeds (kernels): embryo iu- 
verted. The species are shrubby and consist of both 
twining and standard plants, with entire and either rough or 
