68 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
Order LVIII.—BORRAGINE.? 
Flowers usually regular, in scorpioid cymes; calyx 
persistent, 5-lobed, valvate; corolla 5-lobed, often with 
5 projections (staminodes) between the stamens; stamens 
5, epipetalous ; ovary 4-lobed, 4-seeded ; fruit of four inde- 
hiscent I-seeded nutlets; leaves alternate, undivided and 
entire, usually hispid. A large order, belonging to ali 
climates, especially the warmer temperate ; but with very 
few alpine species. 
I. CERINTHE, Tourn. 
Ovary composed of two carpels; corolla yellow, throat 
naked, without scales; plant glabrous. Alpine. 
1. C. major, L. (aspera, Roth); corolla golden-yellow 
with red centre, or purple, anthers as long as the fila- 
ments, leaves ciliate; very rare; Sion. C. alpina, Kit. 
(glabra, Mill.); corolla light yellow spotted with red, 
anthers four times as long as filaments, leaves not ciliate ; 
dry places at a high altitude, local. C. mznor, L.; a 
smaller plant, with smaller flowers and narrower corolla- 
lobes ; Dauphiny. 
2. SYMPHYTUM, L. 
Corolla regular, tubular, throat closed with scales; 
flowers in terminal forked cymes; leaves hispid, stem- 
leaves usually decurrent ; carpels 4. Not alpine. 
S. officinale, L., Comfrey; stem branched, strongly 
winged from the decurrent leaves; wet places, common. 
1 Usually spelt Boraginee in English botanical works, and the genus 
from which the order takes its name, Borago, 
