BORRAGINACEJE. (BORAGE FAMILY.) :829 
1. CORDIA, Plum. y 
Calyx ovate or bell-shaped, 4 - 5-toothed, not circumscissile. Corolla funnel 
or salver form, 4—5-lobed. Stamens 4-5. Ovary entire, 4-celled. Style ter- 
minal, twice 2-cleft, mostly exserted. Drupe ovate or globose, pulpy, 1 - 4- 
seeded, commonly enclosed in the enlarged calyx.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves 
toothed or entire. Flowers spiked or capitate, white. 
1. C. bullata, L. Rough throughout with white bristly hairs; leaves 
oblong-ovate, serrate-toothed, rugose, paler beneath, abruptly petioled ; flowers 
capitate, on peduncles which are shorter than the leaves, and nearly terminal, 
but elongated and lateral in fruit ; calyx ovoid, the subulate bristly teeth spread- 
ing; corolla short, hairy in the throat; stigmas club-shaped ; drupe 1-seeded. — 
South Florida. — Leaves Y -14 long. Heads 4-5 in diameter. 
2, EHRETIA, L. 
Calyx tubular, 4-5-toothed. Corolla salver-form or wheel-shaped, 5-lobed. 
Stamens 5: anthers ovate. Ovary entire, 4-celled. Style terminal, 2-cleft at 
the apex. Berry composed of 2 more or less separable 2-seeded nutlets.— 
Tropical shrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers corymbose, white. 
l. B. Beurreria, L. Smooth; leaves petiolate, obovate or oblong-obo- 
vate, entire, mucronate, obtuse, or notched at the apex, paler beneath ; corymb 
many-flowered, divaricate ; calyx leathery, the teeth acute, rune on the 
margins; stigmas depressed; nutlets 4, apparently 2-celled, 1-seeded, finely 
furrowed on the back. — South Florida.— A small tree. Leaves 13/—3' long, 
acute at the base. Flowers white and fragrant. 
2. E. Radula, Poir. Stem smooth; leaves obovate, entire, rounded or 
notched at the apex, tapering at the base into a short petiole, smooth beneath, 
very rough and at length white-spotted above; corymb few-flowered ; pedicels 
minutely bracted and sparingly hispid; calyx 4--5-toothed; the teeth ovate, 
Acute, pubescent on the margins ; lobes of the corolla rounded, wavy ; stigmas 
peltate, depressed in the centre; berry ovate, separable into 4 one-seeded nutlets. 
— South Florida, — Leaves 1’-1}/ long. Corolla 6” long. 
3. TOURNEFORTIA, L. vA 
gm 5-parted. Corolla salver-form or wheel-shaped, 5-lobed. fem 5, 
included. Style short, terminal; stigma conical Berry composed of two 
2-seeded nutlets, which are either united or separable, or by abortion 1— 2-seeded. 
—Erect or twining shrubs, with entire leaves, and white or yellowish flowers, 
in 1-sided bractless often cymose spikes. 
* Fruit ovate, separable into two 2-seeded nullets : didus ovate, plicate. 
leaves very numerous and imbricated, linear, MAT, oria 
l T. gnaphalodes, R.Br. White-silky throughout; stem thick, erect; ` : 
