794 Borraginaceae. 
in the centre of the flower. Nuts attached by their excavated base, 
and free from the style. 
A genus of few species, chiefly from north-eastern Europe and 
western Asia. 
1109. Borrago officinalis L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 197. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 150. — Rehbch. Ic. XVIU tab. 101 fig. UI. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.109 no.723. — Stem erect, 
with spreading branches, 30 cm high, or rather more. Lower leaves 
obovate or oblong, narrowed at the base into long stalks; the upper 
ones more shortly stalked, and narrower. Flowers on long pedicels, 
drooping, of a clear blue or sometimes white; the dark anthers 
very prominent in the centre. — Flow. December to March. 
M. ma. Sidi-Gaber; Ramle. — N.d. N. v. Sometimes natura- 
lized in the old gardens of Cairo. 
Local name: lisan-eth-thor. 
Indigenous to the East Mediterranean region, cultivated and naturalized 
in Central and Western Europe. 
450. (10.) Anchusa Linn. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft, but little accrescent. Corolla hypocrateri- 
form; tube straight, cylindrical; throat closed with scales; lobes 
short, patent, obtuse. Stamens 5, inserted above the middle of the 
corolla-tube, included; filaments very short; anthers small, oblong, 
obtuse. Lobes of the ovary 4, attached to the narrow gynobase; 
style filiform; stigma entire or 2-lobed; ovules erect, inserted at 
the inner angle. Nuts 4, oblong erect. Seeds straight; cotyledons 
flat, ovate. — Annual or perennial herbs, often very hispid. Leaves 
alternate. Racemes scorpioid, often long and leafy. Flowers blue 
or white, rarely yellow. 
Species about 30; also in North and South Africa, Europe and Asia. 
A. Biennials or Perennials. 
I. Calyx 5-cleft. Nutlets obliquely curved. . . 1. A. undulata. 
II. Calyx 5-parted. Nutlets straight, erect . . . 2. A. strigosa. 
B, Annuals. . 
‘I. Nutlets horizontal, wrinkled, short-beaked. 
Corolla-tube straight. 
) Flowers nearly sessile. . .....: .. 3. A. aggregata. 
Flowers pedicelled. ...... . . . 4. A. hispida, 
Il. Nutlets oblique, wrinkled-netted, acute. Corolla- 
tube straight. 
a) Calyx-lobes lanceolate ....... . - 5. A. aegyptiaca. 
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