Kehiochilon. — Symphytum. — Borrago. 793 
Flor. Sirb., p. 812 no. 26. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 801 no. 184. 
-— Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 660 no. 226. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 260. — A dwarf much-branched 
perennial, with stems and leaves densely clothed with white bristly 
hairs. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, 6—12 mm long. Flowers sessile 
in the axils of the upper leaves, crowded towards the tip of the 
branchlets. Calyx-segments 27/, mm long. Corolla-tube as long as 
the calyx; limb bright blue, 5 mm diam. — Flow. March to May. 
M.a. Marmarica: Matruqa; Mariut; Alexandria-West and -Kast; 
Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Damietta; Rosetta; Gels-Mohammediya: 
Tawil-es-sakham; el-“Arish. — D.1. D.i. D. a. sept. Often abundantly 
in the Wadies on calcarious ground or in deep sandy places. 
Local name: okrush; shiqra (Ascherson). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, 
Western Marmarica, Nubia, Arabia Petraea and Syria. 
448. (8.) Symphytum Linn. 
Rough, hairy perennials, with yellow or purple drooping flowers, 
in short, terminal, forked cymes, and no bracts under the pedicels. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla tubular, but enlarged above the 
middle, where it is closed inside by 5 lanceolate scales, and termi- 
nates in 5 very small spreading teeth or lobes. Stamens shorter 
than the corolla. Nuts ovoid, smooth, attached by their base. 
The genus contains but few species, nearly resembling each other, and 
extends over Europe and northern Asia. 
1108. Symphytum orientale L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 195. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 171. — Icon. Tournef. Voy. I, p. 524. — 
Jeq. Fil. Eel. tab. 82. -—- A perennial plant, 20—50 cm high, or 
sometimes somewhat more, soft-hirsute with wavy hairs; stems erect. 
Leaves oblong-cordate, the lower ones petioled, the upper ones 
sessile, all rounded or cuneate at the base. Calyx 8 mm long in 
fruit, with lanceolate lobes; corolla twice as long as the flowering 
calyx, scales a little longer than the anthers; nutlets minute, smooth, 
oblique, constricted above the base. — Flow. February. 
M. p. Rosetta, rare in sandy places, recently introduced (Muschler). 
Also known from Greece, Arabia Petraea and Syria. 
449. (9.) Borrago Linn. 
Rough, hairy annuals or biennials, with blue flowers in loose 
forked cymes. Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla rotate; the tube exce- 
edingly short; the mouth closed by short scales. Stamens 5; the 
filaments very short and forked; the anthers forming an erect cone 
