134 XCIX. HYDROPHYLLACES. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Hydrolea. 
Bot. Mag. ii. 193, t. 26; Wight Ill. t. 167, and Ic. t. 601; Choisy in DC. 
Prodr. x. 180; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 170. H. javanica, Blume Byd. 726. 
Nama zeylanica, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 73. Nama, Linn, Fl. Zeyl. 49, t. 2. 
— Rheede Hort. Mal. x. 28. 
Throughout Inpra, ascending to 4000 ft., in wet places; abundant in rice swamps. 
—Disrnis. S.E. Asia, Malaya, and Australia; Tropical Africa and America. — . 
Stems 3-18 in., procumbent, branched, with the inflorescence patently viscidly 
hairy, or (in the Ceylon form) nearly glabrous. Leaves 2 by } in., narrowed at the 
base. Racemes 1-2 in.; bracts }-} in., narrow; pedicels 4-4 in. Sepals j im. 
Corolla-segments 4 in. Filaments dilated at the base, or nearly filiform. Capsule in. 
ORDER C. BORAGINEIE. (Dy C. B. Clarke.) 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, often hispid or scabrous. Leaves alternate, very 
rarely opposite, exstipulate, mostly entire. Fowers usually in dichotomous 
scorpioid cymes, rarely solitary and axillary. Calyx inferior, 5-, rarely 6-8- 
toothed or -lobed, usually persistent in fruit.” Corolla gamopetalous, often with 
scales in the throat, rarely 4-6-lobed, imbricate (rarely twisted) in the bud. 
Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, alternate with them, upon the corolla- 
tube. Ovary superior ; cells 2, 2-ovuled, or 4-1-ovuled; style terminal or from 
between the ovary-lobes, long or short, stigma capitate or 2-lobed, rarely the 
style twice bifid; ovules suberect from the inner basal angle of the cell. Frut 
drupaceous or dividing into 2-4 nutlets. Seeds erect or oblique, testa mem- 
branous, albumen fleshy copious sparing or 0; embryo straight or curved, 
radicle superior.—Species 1,200; throughout the world. 
.TRrBE I. Cordiese. Trees or shrubs, Style terminal on the entire ovary, 
twice bipartite. Drupe 4-1-seeded ; albumen 0 ; cotyledons plicate longitudin- 
ally. 
Calyx-teeth very short, irregular. . . . . . . . . . l CORDIA 
TRIBE II Ehretiese. Style terminal on the entire ovary, simple, bi- 
partite, or styles 2. Drupe with 2 2-celled, or 4 l-celled pyrenes; or of 41 
nuts. 
Trees or shrubs. Style 2-fid 
Prostrate herb. Styles 2 e. 
Virgate shrub. Style 1, stigma ca 
. 2. EHRETIA. 
e. se on. s. s. s. s. 3. COLDENIA. 
pitate . . . . . . . 4. RzABDIA. 
TRIBE IH. Heliotropiese. Style terminal on the entire ovary, de- 
pressed-conie at the apex, or with a horizontal ring below the stigmas. 
as of Ehretiec., 
Shrubs, often scandent. Style short, shortly 2-lobed . . . 5. ToURNEFORTIA- 
Herbs. Style dilated at the apex or above the base 6. HELIOTROPIUM. 
TRIBE IV. Borageæ. Herbs. Style simple or bifid, rising from between 
the ovary lobes (except in Trichodesma). Nutlets 4, rarely 3-1 by suppression 
(2 in Rochelia) ; albumen 0, ` ` 
SUBTRIBE I. CxwoeLossE. Nutlets attached to a convex or conical car 
pophore, scar continued to the apex of the nutlets which are often dep , 
"produced, or saccate at the base. 
* Fruiting calyx enlarged enclosing the nutlets. 
Anthers conieally connivent, lanceolate, subexsert . 7. TRICHODESMA. 
