408 LXXX. BORAGINE^, [JiQchUa, 



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hemisplicre an J from western Asia. The only Australian species is endeniicj l)ut is very 

 Dearly allied to one of the east Mediterranean ones. The genus is nearly allied to Echino* 

 sj^ermam, but has only 1 cell and ovule to each carpel. 



1. R. Maccoya, F, MuelL 771s. A luspid annual with several procuin- 

 bent or asceiidiuijr steins, a few inches in len"-th. Leaves linear, the radical 

 ones 1 in. long or even more, those of the stem few and small, llowers on 

 veiy short pedicels, usually below the floral leaves or bracts, the upper ones 

 forming an irregular one-sided leafy raceme. Calyx about 3 lines long, ob- 

 lique, incurved, divided into from 7 to 9 rather unequal linear-segineuts. 

 Corolla shorter than the calyx, witli 4 to 6 very short obtuse lobes, without 

 scales in the throat. Stamens usually 4. Nuts enclosed in the hardened 

 base of the calyx-segments. — Maccoya plurisepala^Y. Muell. Fragm. i. 127. 



K. S- Wales. Murray Desert towards the Darling river, F. Mueller. In the fe>^ 

 flowers I opened, I found 7 calyx-segments and only 4 stamens, the corolla-lobes sometirocs 

 5, sometimes 6 ; F. Mueller has ohserved as many as 9 calyx-segments. The species is 

 nearly allied to R, cancellata, Boiss., which has a similar multiplication of calyx-segments 

 hut with the normal number of 5 corolla-lobes and stamens. 



12. CYNOGLOSSUM, Linn. 



(Omphalodes, Mceiich,) 



Calyx deeply divided into 5 segments. Corolla Avith a short broad tube, 

 the throat closed with scales opposite the lobes, the limb spreading, ahuost 

 rotate, 5-lobed. Anthers enclosed in the tube. Ovary 4-lobed; style 

 shortly filiform, inserted between the lobes, with a small usually capitate 

 stigma. Nuts 4, depressed, attached by the inner end of the under surface 

 or by the inner edge to the convex or hemispherical receptacle, the upper 

 surface usually more or less covered with short hooked prickles or bordereil 

 by a raised often toothed maro-m. Seeds without albumen; radicle short. 



Herbs clothed with stiff hairs, either appressed and hoaiy or spreading, 

 sometimes reduced to scattered tubercles. .Leaves entire, Tlowers blue 

 purplish or rarely white, in one-sided simple or forked racemes, with or with- 

 out bracts. 



The genns is widely dispersed over the temperate and warmer regions of the Old nor 

 The Australian species appear to be all endemic. 



Diffuse or straggling. Leaves ovate, petiolate. Floral leaves or .^ ,. ^ 



bracts at or near all the pedicels 1. C lali^^^i^'-^^' 



Erect. Leaves lanceolate or oblouj^. 

 Nuts glochidiate all over- 

 Pedicels longer than the calyx, with bracts at or neai* them all, , . 



or at least the lower ones 2. C. suaveoiens. 



Pedicels shorter than calyx. Bracts none !!!*..!* 3* ^' aialrafe. 

 Nuts glochidiate only on the raised maririu or rarely alone; a cen- j:: 



tral raised ridge. Bracts none ,. T ....,.., 4. f?. Briamnondn^ 



1. C. latifolium^ R, Br. Prod. 495. A perennial, with di^^^f ^JJ^ 

 straggling branching stems, extending sometimes to several feet, scabrou 

 with scattered tubercles, which rarely lengthen into short hairs or pncue^^- 



