Mnchlim.} LXSX. BORAGIXE^. '^^' 



short. Nuts sliovter tlian the calyx, rugose, with raucli-raised reticulations. 

 —Eeliotropinm elacUanthum, F. Muell. in Linnsca, xxv. 424, 



Victoria. Wimmcra, Ballachj ; Skipton, Whan (the latter specimens very yoni.g and 

 somcvfhat doubtful). 

 8. Australia. Pastures, Rocky Creek, F. Mueller. 

 W. Australia, Dnimmond, n. 505. 



10. ECHINOSPERMUM, Swaitz. 



Calyx deeply divided into 5 se-ments. Corolla with a cvliudrical tube, 

 tie. throat with 5 small scales inside; lobes 5, spreading. Stamens inserted 

 in the tube; anthers included. Ovary 4-lobed; style inserted between the 

 lobes, mth a small usually capitate stigma. Nuts 4, usually more or less 

 muricate with hooked prickles, erect, laterally attached to a narrow-comcal 

 Kceptacle. Seeds without albumen, radicle short.— Herbs with the habit 

 foliage and flowers of Myosotis, but the flowers usually interspersed wim 

 bracts. 



A consideraWe genus dispersed over the temperate and mouutainons regions of Europe 

 ana Asia, but scarcely tropical. The ouly Australian species appears to be endemic. 



1. E. concavum, F. Ilnell. Fragm. ii. 139; vi. 116. 

 «lngose or hoaiy with appressed hairs, looser on the main s 

 •either erect nearly simple and under 6 in. high or longer, diffuse and almo t 

 ^oody at the base. Leaves linear or oblauceolate, the larger ones above 

 {>. long, the upper ones passing into the small floral leaves or bracts 

 flowers ia one-sided leafy niceu< °s, the pedicels at first ^'ery short, ut 

 englhening to \ in. or more when in fruit. Calyx-segments about ^ line 

 «ng, lanceolate, enh.rging after flowering. Corolla about 1 line lo"=.^^« 

 t^ e with a ring of obtuse scales inside above the anthers the lol^^« «^;;;:^^: 

 «Wong. much shorter than the tube. Nuts about 2 lines long very concave 

 O'^ the back, with thick raised almost involute margins bordered by stout 

 conical glochidiate prickles, the enclosed area tuberculate. 



Darling river, Victorian Expedition ; betweea Stokes' Range and 



™- S. Wales. Darlinn; river, Victorian Exj) 

 o^per's Creek. Wheeler. 

 Victoria. Wimmera, Ballachy. 

 ?• Australia. Near Gawler Town, F. Mueller. 

 W^- Australia, Brummond, n. 165. 



11. ROCHEiilA/l^eichenb. 



(Maccoya, i-'. iMKt?//.; . 



Calyx deeply divided into 5 or more segments. Corolla with a c.vl^^dma 

 ^'^"letimes in/urved tube, tlie throat with or without scales ^ff^^^f^ 

 preading, 5-lobed or rarely 4- or G-lobed. Stamens o or rarely fe«er in 

 f'ided in the tube." Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled, with 1 ovule m each cell , vie 

 "verted between the lobes, with a small usually capitate stigma xNuts ^ 

 '^l' rugose, laterally attached to the narrow-conical feceptacl^. Seed 

 ;"l>out albumen; radicle short.-Herbs with the habit «f ^3'''*^/; J ^^Vor 

 f^'-escence usually interspersed with bracts, the fruiting calyx often more 

 ^^s hardened at the base round the nuts. 



^^^ genus comprises very few species from the Mediterranean region of the nortut u 



