Borage Family •'!•'!! 



at their bases <»r below the middle to the receptacle, the 

 scai- of the attachment concave or raised. 



1. A. trachycarpa (Gray) Greene. Stem branching from the 

 base, decumbent, 3 dm. long or less, rough with a rather coarse and 

 somewhat spreading pubescence; racemes leafy almost through- 

 out; Begments of the calyx linear, widely spreading; corolla very 

 small ; nutlets ovate, straight, carinate on both sides, the dorsal 

 keels and nearly straight transverse rugae dentate-interrupted ; 

 scar suborbicular, nearly basal. 



In low ground near Inglewood. 



4. EREMOCAEYA Greene. 



Hirsute-canescent low annuals with numerous leafy- 

 bracted racemose branches. Roots imparting a purple 

 stain. Leaves in a basal rosulate tuft. Racemes dense, 

 biserial, Leafy-bracted ; pedicels filiform, short and per- 

 sistent with the calyx. Calyx 5-parted to the base, 

 campanulate in fruit, its lobes nerveless, not bristly. 

 * lorollas small, white. Nutlets neither margined nor car- 

 inate, erect, attached for their whole length, the groove 

 open, slightly dilated and not furcate at base. Style 

 enlarged in fruit and persistent. 



1. E. micrantha (Torr.) Greene. Hirsute-canescent through- 

 out; stems slender, erect, diffusely branched from the base, 6-12 

 cm. high ; leaves linear, 4-10 mm. long ; flowers crowded ; corolla 

 scarcely 2 mm. long, its lobes about 1 mm. long, obscurely append- 

 aged at the throat ; nutlets oblong-ovate, acuminate, smooth 

 or nearly so, about 1 mm. long. 



Frequent in dry washes in the interior valleys. 



2. E. lepida (Gray) Greene. Stems stouter than in the last, 

 S-15 cm. high; corolla larger, its limb 4-6 mm. broad, append- 

 ages conspicuous ; nutlets nearly 2 mm. long, pectinate-scabrous. 



Frequent in the dry interior foothills of San Diego and San Bernardino 

 Counties. 



5. PIPTOCALYX Torr. 



Hispid-canescent low diffusely branching annuals, 

 leafy-racemose throughout. Calyx villous-hispid, o-cleft 



