320 BORAGINACEAE, [Cordia. 
dotted with glands as well as the corolla. Corolla 2“, ochraceous, urceolate, 
5-cleft to the middle, the somewhat acute lobes inflected at the tip, erect 
or reflexed, but at aes appressed to the capsule. Anthers ovoid, sub- 
sessile below the sinus. No scales. Styles distinct, unequal, exserted; 
the stigmas age eons globose, nearly 2“ in diameter, indehiscent, 
but with a small intrastylar aperture, surrounded below by the withered 
corolla. Seeds nearly 1“ in diameter, reticulate or warty, angular-convex 
or depressedly crokeies not beaked, with a small eircatar umbilicus and 
a short linear hilum. — Engelmann, in Trans. St. Louis Ac. Sc. I, 453. 
The plants collected by myself grew on agape sat oor weet on J. ee 
along the seashore of Waialua, Oahu! a N «Pololo: 
Orprer LX. BORAGINACEAE. 
Calyx persistent, with 5 or rarely 4 divisions. Corolla regular or nearly 
so, 5-lobed, usually imbricate in the bud. Stamens 5, alternating with 
the lobes of the corolla and inserted in the tube. Ovary 4-celled and 
often deeply 4-lobed (consisting of two 2-celled carpels), with 1 ovule in 
each cell. Style inserted between the lobes of the ovary, or terminal 
where the ovary is entire, simple, entire or once or twice bifid. Fruit 
either a 4-seeded drupe or berry, or consisting of 4 distinct small 1-seeded 
nuts having the appearance of naked seeds. A none or very thin. 
Embryo usually straight, with flat or pte oe. ete. — Herbs, 
shrubs or trees, often rough with stiff hai aves alternate, entire or 
too 
thed, without stipules. Flowers sem in Ee simple or bifid 
spikes or racemes, or on the one-sided branches of a dichotomous cyme 
which are rolled back (circinnate) before the flowers expand. 
A tihng spread Order, _the geceeeeet or shrubby genera chiefly tropical, the herba- 
re n the temperate regions, especially of the northern hemisphere. 
rage entire; style terminal, twice pa fruit a — atree . 1. Cordia 
Ovary entire: style terminal, en — with annular stigma below the 
apex; fruit separating more or less ate into 2—4 dry 
nutlets; suffrutescent herbs 2. Heliotropium. 
Ovary 4-lobed style between the lo’ bes, entire, with capitate stigma; 
fruit of 4 distinct seed-like nutlets; a tender an 3. Bothriospermum. 
1. CORDIA, Plum. 
Calyx tubular, often closed in the bud, 4—8-toothed. Corolla vg 
or salver-shaped. Style twice bifid, terminal; ovary entire. 
-eelled drupe, but by: abortion often 3—1-celled, each cell “its 
1 suberect seed. Cotyledons thick, folded lengthwise. Albumen none. ~~ 
—~ or shrabe: Flowers often polygamous, in expanded or con 
A large genus, diffused through the tropical regions of both Worlds. 
