6 LXXXIX. BORAGINEZ (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [ Cordia. 
subhorizontal ; hilum small; testa membranous; albumen present 
or absent ; embryo straight or curved; cotyledons usually entire, rarely 
bifid or plicate—Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, exsti- 
pulate. Inflorescence normally a dichotomous cyme;_ branches 
frequently scorpioid. Flowers various in colour, usually blue or white. 
Calyx often more or less accrescent. 
Species 1200, cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical regions. 
* Style terminal on the ovary. 
Stigma terminal on the style. 
Style twice forked . . “ c : . 1. Corpia. 
Style once forked. 
Stamens inserted at or near the throat of the 
corolla-tube : : : : . 2. EHRETIA, 
Stamens inserted low down in the corolla-tube 3. Ruappra. 
Styles two, distinct . 4. COLDENIA. 
Style simple . : ; : : : 5. PoskEa. 
Style with a stigmatose ring below the apex. 
Fruit usually drupaceous : : “ . 6. TOURNEFORTIA. 
Fruit of 4 dry nutlets : . 7@, HELIOTROPIUM. 
** Style inserted between the four lobes of the ovary. 
Calyx large, very accrescent . 3 = 4 . 8. TRICHODESMA. 
Calyx but little accrescent. 
+ Flowers regular. 
Nutlets depressed orbicular : : - 9. CYNOGLOSSUM. 
Nutlets ovoid, triquetrous on the inner face. 
Throat of the corolla appendiculate with 
scales . : : ‘i : : - 10 ANCHUSA. 
Throat of the corolla without scales 
Style bifid. . . : : : - 11. ARNEBIA. 
Style simple. 
Filaments as long as the anthers . 12. SERICOSTOMA. 
Filaments very short. 
Corolla-lobes contorted . : . 13. Myosorts. 
Corolla-lobes imbricate : . 14. LITHOSPERMUM. 
tt Flowers more or less irregular. 
Corolla-limb nearly regular . : . 15. LoBostemon. 
Corolla-limb distinctly irregular. 
Stamens short é : : . 16. ECHINOCHILON. 
Stamens long : : : : - 17. Ecu1um. 
1. CORDIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 838. 
Flowers often polygamous. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped or tubular, 
smooth or sulcate ; lobes 2-5, short, sometimes cohering. Corolla-tube 
cylindrical or funnel-shaped ; lobes 4—5, patent or recurved, usuall? 
imbricate or subcontorted. Stamens usually 4—5, inserted in the 
corolla-tube ; filaments filiform ; anthers ovate-oblong or linear. Ovary 
4-celled; style elongated, filiform, twice forked ; stigmas 4, linear or) 
capitate; ovule erect, attached at the base or below the middle. Fruit! 
a drupe surrounded by the persistent accrescent calyx; endocarp\ 
usually bony ; cells 4 or by abortion fewer, 1-seeded. Seeds ascending, | ' 
exalbuminous ; cotyledons very plicate ; radicle short.— Trees or shrubs. 
Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, petioled, entire or crenate-dentate. t 
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