842 CXn. BORAGINE.^. [Ehretkm. 



2, a basi distincti v. ad medium coliterenies sed facile partibiles, termiiiales, stigmatibus 

 capitatis ; oviila sub apice affixa, pendiila. Fructus exocarpio tenuitcr caniosnlo v. sub- 

 sicco in pyrenas seu nuces 4 v. abortu paiiciorea l-spermaa secedens. Semina exalbu- 

 minosa ; cotyledones plante, latse ; radicula brevis, recta incurva v. cotyledonibus inciun- 

 bens.— Herb^e ramosissimjo, srepiua diffusaB v. prostrate. Folia altenia, inte^errima 

 dentata v. lobata, ssepius parva v. jcrispa. Flores in axillis sessiles v. brevissimo pedi- 

 cellati, superiores sfepe in capitukim v, racemum 1-laterale foliaceo-bracteatum diapositi. 



Species 10, quarum una per regiones calidiores orbis veteris late dispersa, cseter* America ocoi- 

 dentalis, tara australis qiiam borealis, inclusis ins. Galapagorum, incol». DC. Prod. ix. 558. A. 

 Gray, Proc. Anter. Acad. viii. 292. S. Wats. Hot. 40 Parall. 247. Philippi, Fl. Atacam. 37. 



Genus ab A. Grayio in Proc. Amer. Acad. v. 340 reformatum, in subgenera 2 sequentia 

 dividitur. 



l.^Eucoldcnia, fructu potius 4-sulco quam 4-lobo, nuculis seu pyrenis erassioribiis duriusculis, 

 lateribu3 planis arcto contiguis. Hue C. proambcns, Linn. CLoeophyi.lum, F. Mtiell. in Hook. Km 

 Joiim. ix. 21), C. canescens, DC. (Stbgnocabpus, Torr. Hot. Pope Exped. 13 (160), t. 7) et Ptilo- 

 Ckutx., Torr. Bat. Pope Expcd. 14 (170), t. 8, cui fructus abortu l-pyrenus, quod etiam hine inde 

 in aliis speciebiis observatur. ' - 



2. Tigui^jfl, fructu (an semper ? ) lateraliter 4-lobo, nueulis tenuioribus fero ad axin distlnctis 

 sectione transversa rotundaiis. Rtdz et Pav. Fl. Per. et Chil. t. U\ {Lifhospermum). Tiquilta' 

 Pers. Syn. i. 157. Torr. Bot. Wilkes Kvped. ii. t. 12. Galapaqoa, Jlook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc' 

 XX. 196. Anders, in Engen. Hesa, Bot. t. 16. Eddya, Torr. Bot. Pope Exped. 14 (170), t. oVova- 

 rium Tidimus minus lobatum quam in ieono deh'neatum). 



10. Bhabdla, Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 136, t. 195. (Eliretire sect. Xeroderma, DC. 

 Prod. IX. 500.)— Calyx 5-partitus, segmentis lanceolatis acntis imbricatis. Corolla tubo 

 brevi siibcampaniilata, alte 5-fida ; lobi oblongi, imbricati. Stamina 5, tubo corolljB 

 affixa, inclusa v. exserta, filamcntis filiformibiis ; antlicrEu oldongai. Ovarium ovoideum 

 2-loculare, loculis fere perfecte 2-locellatis ; stylus tenninalis, filiformis, indivisus, stig! 

 mate dilatato sub-2-fido ; ovula supra medium lateraliter affixa. Bacca drupacea, exo- 

 carpio membranaceo, pulpa tcnni, pyrenis 4 duriu.sculis baud crassis. Semina oblonga ■ 

 albumen parcum ; cotyledones ovatie.— Frutex nmineus v. procumben.s, ramis vir^^atis' 

 glaber v. subscriceo-villosus. Folia alterna, ad nodos s^pe fascicnlata, lineari-oblon- a y 

 cuneata, mtegorriina v. obscure dentata. Flores parvuli, ad apices ramulonim inter 

 fascicules folionmi pauci, rarius laxius racomosi. Fructus parvi. 



Species 1, utriusque orbis reglonum ealidiorum incola. Hoo/.: Ic. PI. t. 823 Wiohi Ic t 1385 

 {Ehretia): Miers, ContHb. ii. 222, t. 84. Specimina Brasiliana-, African.!, Indica e't Malavana 

 sedido comparata distmctiones nullas ppeeifici valoris ostoutUnit. 



.ROTULA, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 121, BC. Prod. ix. 531, charactero imperfeeto solo Lourcirii nota si 

 rerera Boragmea, est forte eadcm ae liJmhdia lyeioides, Mart. (5. viminea, Dalz.). 



11. Halgania, Gaudkh. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 448, t. 59.— Calyx 3ub-5-pai-titu.s seff 

 mentis lanceolatis lincaribusve ssepe inaequilatis. Corolla tubo brevissimo rotata 5 'loba ■ 

 lobi lati, imbricati. Stamina 5, fauci affixa, exserta, filamentis brevissimis dilatatis ' 

 antherie erectre, in cylindnim longe rostratum stylum includentem connate dorso pube' 

 scentes. Ovarium ovoideum, 4-locuIare ; stylus terminalis, filiformis, indivisus sticnnate 

 parvo ; ovula mfra apicem lateraliter affixa. Fructus siccus v. exocarpio camosult en 

 docarpio crustaceo 2-pyreno, pyrenis 2-locularibus. Semina plus minus albuminosa- 

 embryo teres, rectus, radicula brevi. — Suffrutices v. fniticuli rarius hcrbje hirsut' 

 tomentosi v. rarius glabrati. Folia alterna, integerrima v. dentata Flores' Cferulei 

 purpurascentes V. albi, siepe speciosi, cymis tcrminalibus v. demum laterabbus laxiusculis 

 V. ad racemos suiiphccs rarius ad flores solitarios reductis, bracteis paucis v. 0. 



Species 8, omnos Australian a;. Benth. Fl. Atisiral iv. 401. 



