BORRAGINE 73 
deflexum, Lehm.; stem branching from the middle or 
lower part, fruit-stalks deflexed ; shady gorges ; Oberland, 
Glarus, Valais, very rare. 
12. OMPHALODES, Tourn. 
Flowers regular, large, bright blue; corolla rotate, 
throat closed by five scales; nutlets 4, depressed in a 
cavity of the receptacle. Not alpine. 
O. verna, Mecench.; flowers in small axillary or ter- 
minal few-flowered racemes, corolla twice as long as 
the downy calyx; Southern Tirol, Styria, Pyrenees. 
13. ASPERUGO, L. 
Flowers regular, small, blue, in axillary cymes; corolla 
funnel-shaped, throat closed by scales; calyx with five 
large leafy lobes, enlarged after flowering and concealing 
the fruit. 
A. procumbens, L.; flowers I or 2 in the axils of 
the leaves, stem procumbent, prickly, leaves narrow, 
hispid ; rubbish-heaps; Southern Switzerland, Pyrenees. 
14. HELIOTROPIUM, L. 
Flowers regular ; corolla saucer-shaped, with five longi- 
tudinal folds at the throat; nutlets ovoid-triquetrous. 
HI. europeum, L., Heliotrope; flowers small, white 
or bluish, in dense axillary or oppositifoliar rolled-up 
cymes, calyx expanded in fruit, leaves whitish-green, 
pubescent ; fields; Southern Switzerland, Jura, Pyrenees. 
Lorrago officinalis, L., Borage, is naturalised through- 
out Central and Southern Europe. 
