330- BORRAGINACEJE&, (BORAGE FAMILY.) 
Sea-shore, South Florida. — Shrub 29-49 high. Leaves 3! long. Corolla 
small, white. 
* ** Fruit globose, more or less lobed, composed of 1—4 nutlets, each 1-seeded : corolla- 
lobes narrow, acute. a Md 
2. T. volubilis, L. Stem twining, and, like the lower surface of the | 
leaves and spikes, tomentose ; leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, petioled, roughish 
above, paler beneath; spikes lateral and terminal, very slender, cymose, short- 
peduncled, spreading ; tube of the corolla contracted in the middle, the lobes — 
linear-subulate ; anthers connivent; berry small, 1 —3-seeded. — South Florida. - 
— Leaves 1' -1j'long. Corolla 2" Jong. sd 
4. HELIOTROPIUM, Toum. 
Calyx 5-parted, persistent. Corolla salver-form, open at the throat, folded — 
between the 5 lobes. Filaments and style very short. Stigma somewhat coni- 
cal. Fruit separable into four l-seeded nutlets.— Herbs or shrubby plants. — 
Leaves rarely opposite. Spikes l-sided. Flowers white or blue. alent 
1. H. Curassavicum, L. Annual, smooth, fleshy; stems at length | 
prostrate and diffuse; leaves alternate or opposite, lanceolate or linear, obtuse, — 
narrowed at the base; spikes peduncled, simple or 2-parted, coiled in the bud; 
flowers small, sessile, white, bractless ; nutlets smooth. — Saline marshes, Flor- . : 
ida to North Carolina. June - Aug. — Stem 6/-18/ long. Leaves 1/-2/lomg —— — 
— Plant dries black. aed ae 
2. H. myosotoides, n. sp. Annual; stem erect, branched, rough with. 
rigid white appressed hairs; the young branches hoary ; leaves oblong or Janet: 
olate, obtuse, hispid on both sides, narrowed to the base, the lower ones opposite; 
spikes filiform, elongated, 1-sided; flowers short-pedicelled, some of them leafy- 
bracted, others bractless ; exterior calyx-lobes larger; corolla minute (}!’ long), 
white; anthers hairy at the apex; nutlets united, hispid at the apex, with the 
sides concave. — South Florida. — Stem 4'— 6! high. Leaves j' long. Corolla - 
slightly hispid. 
5. HELIOPHYTUM, DC. 
Throat of the corolla bearded, or closed by 5 inflexed folds. Fruit separating o 
into two 2-celled nutlets. Otherwise like Heliotropium. ee 
~ leaves lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, entire, tapering into 
* ee ones mostly opposite ; spikes slender; co 
