( 17S7 ) 

 Symphytum tauricum. Taurian Comfrey. 



C/ass ««d Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Corolla limbus tubulato-vcntricosus : fauce clausa radiis 

 -subulatis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Symphytum tauricum ; foliis cordato-ovatis rugosis hirti$, 



limbo corolla? cyathiformi, caule ramoso hispido macu- 



lato. 

 Symphytum tauricum; foliis cordato-ovatis hirtis petiolatis, 



floralibus oppositis sessilibus, laciniis limbi corollas ob- 



tusis, caule ramoso. JVilld. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1. 



p. 183. 

 Symphytum foliis cordatis crenulatis basi inaequalibus petio- 



latis. Willd. in N. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol. 3. p. 120. 



t. 6.f. 1. 

 Symphytum orientate; caule foliisque cordato-ovatis petio- 



latis hirsutism summis oppositis sessilibus, corolla? limbo 

 . oampanulato. M. V. Bieberst. Fl. Taurico-Caucas. 1. 



p. 129. 

 Symphytum Constantinopolitanum, Borraginis folio et facie, 



flore albo. Tournef. Corol. 7. Voyage du Levant, 



v. 1 . p. 524. cum tabula. 



Descr. Ste?n herbaceous, scarcely a foot high, hispid 

 and spotted with small reddish dots. Branches very divari- 

 cate. Leaves on very short winged footstalks, ovate, acute, 

 with a broad base frequently cordate, rugose, margin finely 

 undulated, so as to give the appearance of being crenulate, 

 villous and hairy along the veins : floral leaves sessile, oppo- 

 site, spreading. Racemes terminal, always two together, 

 nodding. Calyx five-cleft : segments subulate. Corolla 



funnel-shaped, 



