806 Borraginaceae. — Verbenaceae. 
Spicil. Il, p.80 partly. — Onosma orientale Lehm. Icon. Asper. I, 
p. 376. — A perennial herb, 3—5 m high, branching from the base 
and above; stems leafy, flexuous. Basilar leaves oblong-spathulate, 
stem-leaves oblong to linear and linear-lanceolate. Racemes 1—3, 
terminal, capitate, little elongated in fruit; calyx-lobes 1 em long 
in fruit, lanceolate-linear, connivent; corolla glabrous or puberulent, 
yellow, often drying purplish, one-third longer than the calyx; anthers 
somewhat exserted, longer than the filaments; nutlets 4 mm long, 
ovate, smooth, glossy. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Mariut; Montaza (Muschler). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and*Palestine. 
457. (17.) Podonosma. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla tubular, with naked throat, furnished 
with a circular nectary. Filaments adnate below to the corolla; anthers 
sagittate at the base, long appendaged at the apex, exserted. Style 
glabrous, with indistinct stigma. Nutlets curved, inserted by a basilar, 
flat, substipitate areola, and ending in a horizontal beak. — Perennial 
herbs with aspect, indument, and nutlets of Alkanna, and flowers 
differing from those of Onosma principally by the long-appendaged, 
exserted anthers. 
A small genus of only a few species in the Orient. 
1132. Podonosma galalense Schweinf. ex Boiss. Flor. Orient. 1V 
(1879), p.1199. — A perennial herb, 30—50 cm high or sometimes 
somewhat more, glandular-pubescent, with intermixture of hairs with 
tubercled base, very brittle; branches densely leafy. Leaves sessile, 
oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, the lower ones tapering at 
the base, the upper ones half-clasping, 3—4-cm long. Racemes leafy, 
at first capitate, then long, loose; calyx growing to 2mm in fruit, 
lobes linear from a broader.base, longer than the fruiting pedicel, 
more than half as long as the corolla; corolla bluish, 1 mm long: 
nutlets 2 mm long including beak, minutely tubercled. — Flow. April. 
D. a. sept. Northern and Southern Galala. 
Only known from these localities. 
95. Verbenaceae. 
Flowers irregular or rarely regular. Calyx persistent, truncate 
toothed or lobed. Corolla with 4 or 5, rarely 6—8 lobes or rarely 
truncate, the lobes more or less 2-lipped or nearly or quite equal, 
imbricate in the bud, the upper lip or uppermost lobe or sometimes 
the lateral one outside. Stamens inserted in the tube of the corolla, 
