El/droka.'] LXXIX. HYDKOPHYLLACEiE. 383 



terminal panicle. Bracts small and narrow. Calyx- segments lanceolate, 

 striate, about 3 lines long-. Corolla scarcely exceeding tlic calyx, divided to 

 about the middle into broad lobes. Stamens and styles sliorter than tlie 

 corolla; anthers sap:ittate. Capsule membranons, shorter than the calyx. 

 Seeds very small and numerous. — Wight, 111. t. 167 ; Ic. PI. t. COl. 



N. Australia. Giilf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller. Abundaut in tropical Asia and 

 Africa, less so iu tropical America. 



2. H. spinosa, Linn. ; Chois. in DC. Prod. x. 181. An erect perennial 

 or undershrub of 1 to 2 ft., glandular-pubescent and hispid with spreadiiinj 

 hairs, more or less viscid and armed with axillary spreading spines of \ to 

 i in. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, contracted into a short 

 petiole, from under 1 in. to about 2 in. long. Tlowcrs larger than in 

 S- seylanica, in compact leafy cymes terminating the stems and upper 

 hranchlets. Calyx-segments narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, above 3 Inies 

 long. Corolla exceeding the calyx, divided to about the middle into broad 

 lobes. Stamens and styles rather" long ; antlicrs lobcd at both ends. Ovary, 

 capsule, and seeds of//, zeylanica. —?,oi. Eeg. t. 50G. 



Q«eensland. Cape York, Baemel {Eerl. F. Mueller). Very abundant in tropic-al 

 America; not as yet Ivnown from the Old World, excepting the Timor specimen lu ttic Uank- 

 siaa Herbarium referred to by Choisy. 



Oedee lxxx. BORAGINE^. 



T'lowers regular or nearly so. Calyx free, of 5 rarely 4 or 6 or more divi- 

 sions or teeth or rarely irregularly split. Corolla with a long or short tube, 

 and 5 rarely 4 or 6 or more lobes, imbricate or induplicate iu the bud. Sta- 

 mens as many as corolla-lobes or veiy rarely fewer, inserted in the corolla- 

 t"be and alternate with its lobes ; anthers 2-celled, tlie cells opening ni lon- 

 gitudinal slits or rarely in terminal pores. Ovary superior, entire or 4-lol)ea 

 j-^'rely 2-lobed, either 4- or 2-celled with 1 ovule in each cell or 2-cel]ed with 

 2 ovules in each cell (in all cases formed of 2 carpels) ; style termmal or m- 

 serled between the lobes ■ ovules laterally attached, ascending or pendulous. 

 Jrmt either a drupe with the endocarp entire or separating mto 2 carpels or 

 * PJTenes, or dry and separating into 4 rarely 2 nuts. Seed with a thin testa ; 

 albumen none or scanty ; embryo straight; cotyledons flat and rather tluck 

 or rarely folded ; radicle short.-Herbs, usually rough with coarsehmrs. or 

 ;« the drupaceous genera sometimes trees or shrubs with a softer mdumen- 

 «m or glabrous. Leaves alternate or very rarely opposite, usually nndmded 

 f'ltire or toothed, very rarely deeply lobed. Flowers m one-sided spikes or 

 racemes, rolled back when young and often forked or dichotomous or rarely 

 in irregularly.branched panicles or solitary. Bracts often not immediately 

 subtending the pedicels and sometimes entirely wanting; bracteoles very 

 rarely present. 



A considerable Order, the herbaceous genera cliiefly spread over the northern ^l"f^^^^^_ 

 Jth.a j.^^^.^^^ ^^^^ ^T southern species; the trutescent drupaceous f ""'^.^^^''^Jy ^^^^^ 



P eal m the New as^ell as the Old World. Of the twelve "'l.genous A"? «' ^'^ f "[^J 

 ^ «1 t"^t° the tropical Flora of the New as well as the Old World ; a f ^^h ^;' ° ;^™ 

 P"--ab but liuiited to the Old World ; five are southern representatives of genera cLietly 



