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BOBAGINACEAE. 



1. Mallotonia gnaphalodes 



(L.) Britton. SEA LAVENDER. 

 (Fig. 327.) A somewhat fleshy 

 shrub, 2-4 tall, with silky-to- 

 mentose foliage, much branched 

 and often forming large clumps, 

 the twigs densely leafy. Leaves 

 numerous, iinear-spatulate, l2*-4' 

 long, obtuse; cymes with 2-4 re- 

 curved branches; calyx campanu- 

 late, its lobes about 1" long, ob- 

 long; corolla surpassing the calyx; 

 fruit ovoid, 2$"-3" high, black, 

 with 2 nutlets. [Heliotropium 

 gnaplialodes L. ; Tournefortia gna- 

 pjialodes E. & S.] 



Frequent on sea-beaches and 

 coastal rocks. Native. Florida and 

 the West Indies. The plant doubt- 

 less reached Bermuda by floating. 

 Flowers from spring to autumn. 



Tournefortia laurifolia Vent., LAUREL-LEAVED TOURNEFORTIA, of Porto 

 Eieo, a glabrous vine, with firm ovate evergreen leaves, and long, 1-sided spikes 

 of small greenish flowers, is recorded by Lefroy as grown at Mt. Langdon. 



Borage officinalis L., BORAGE, European, a rough-hispid herb with oblong 

 to obovate leaves 2'-5' long, and showy blue flowers in terminal, leafy racemes, 

 is grown in gardens. 



Lithospermum distichum Ortega, Mexican, included by Lefroy in the 

 Bermuda Flora as a native sea-side plant, is evidently an error either in 

 record or determination. Lefroy 's record is cited by H. B. Small, and copied 

 by Verrill. 



Myosotis palustris (L.) Lam., FORGET-ME-NOT, European and Asiatic, 

 occasional in flower-gardens, is a low perennial herb with decumbent branches, 

 oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse appressed-pubescent leaves l'-3i' long, and 

 slender racemes of small flowers, the corolla salverform, blue with a yellow 

 eye, 5-lobed, about 3" broad, the fruit 4 erect nutlets. 



Family 6. EHRETIACEAE Schracl. 

 EHRETIA FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees, or some species herbs, with watery sap. Leaves mainly 

 alternate, without stipules, simple. Flowers perfect, regular, in cymes. 

 Calyx 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla gamopetalous, deciduous, its lobes 

 spreading. Stamens 5, or 4 or 6, adnate to the base of the corolla-tube; 

 filaments often united at the base; anthers introrse. Ovary 2-4-celled or 

 1-celled, some of the partitions being imperfect ; styles 2, and distinct or 

 partially united, or 4 and united by pairs. Ovules 1 or 2 in each cavity of 

 the ovary. Fruit drupaceous, with a 4-celled but only 1-seeded stone or 2 

 two-seeded or 4 one-seeded stones. About 20 genera and 360 species, mostly 

 of tropical distribution. 



