322 BORAGINACEAE, { Bothriospermum. 
4 angular-convex nuts which are foveolate near the base of the inner 
ne 
Common in low marshes near nel sea. The gt has a wide range, extending o 
the American continent from Oregon to Chile on the west, and from Mexico to vues 
on the east, being found also in wed and at the apsiebag of Good Hope. 
2. H. anomalum, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 66. — A decumbent 
erennial, much branch a 4—6' high, the branches densely foliose and 
canescent oan soft silky appressed hair. Leaves thick, but not fleshy, 
linear-lanceolate or spathulate, 9—12" > 1—1'/2", entire, gradually 
attenuate from above the middle. Spikes short, 4—6“, on a long (1'/2—2 y 
terminal once or twice forking peduncle, forming a sort of glomerule. 
Jalyx 11/2—2", stiff coriaceous, deeply parted into 5 unequal linear lobes, 
one or two being generally broader than the others. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, 3—5“’, twice the length of the calyx, silky, pale blue, the lim 
1/3 the length of the slightly curved tube, 5—6-lobed, with lobes folded 
in the bud, one a little longer than the others and spreading. Anthers 
5—6, cae capi cnr below the middle of the tube, conniving 
and coher at first with their pointed and penicillate apices. Style 
short, Gtne below fe aa and penicillate apex. Nutlets 4, ge 
avy 
5 or 6, all free and strigoso- pubescent. — Gray, in Proc. Am. 
gos cuetates heliotropioides, DC. Prod. IX, 559. — anew in- 
canum, For 
In dry uae soil near the coasts, as in Puloa, Kailua and Waimea, Oahu oe in 
Koloa, Kauai, and on Hawaii. The flowers are quite fragrant. The species grows also 
on several coral- nan of the Pacific, as Whitsunday, Savage, George and abi 
and in the Society group. 
OTHRIOSPERMUM, Fisch. & Meyer. 
Calyx pete 5-cleft. Corolla-tube cylindrical, the limb spreading with 
imbricate ae the mouth of the tube closed by obtuse scales. nthers 
included. ary 4-lobed. Style very short, rising from the centre of 
the lobes, ne a capitate stigma. Fruit of 4 distinct nuts erect and 
attached by the base, convex and warted on the back, marked with @ 
margined cavity on the inner side. Cotyledons flat. — Hispid herbs with 
shortly pedicellate extra-axillary flowers disposed in a foliose terminal 
Sit and white or bluish corollas 
mall pe of a few Indian and C€ Bicale species. 
nellum, F. ¢ M. — DC. Prod. X, 116. — A slender diffuse 
mets eriemasyan as or biennial, usually 6—8‘ long, more OF less 
clothed with appressed or spre ilies hairs. Leayes ovate or oblong; 
shortly stalked, ce entire, !/2--1‘ long, the upper floral leaves smaller. 
wers very small, white or pale blue, on short ss pedicels. 
Corolla scarcely above 1" long. Fruiting drs 1'/2—2" long. — Benth. 
Fi. Poin p. 235, 
cultivated fields in Pauoa, Oahu! A native of China = India; a recent arrival. 
