536 BOERAGINEiBS. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



4, flattened-ovate, roughened all over with barbed or hooked prickles, 

 ■with or without a tumid margin — Herbs with petioled lower and half- 

 clasping upper leaves, and paniculate racemes. 



1, C. l^ebrodense, Guss. (D .3 to .6, pubescent or hirsute; 

 stem-leaves scattered, oblong-linear to oblong lanceolate, .05 to .1 long. 

 Corolla red. Fruiting racemes loou; fruit generally not more than .006 

 to .008 broad — May to August — Mountains of Gilead, Antilebanon, 

 Lebanon, Cassius, and northward. 



2. C. pictum, Ait. (D .5 to .8, cauescent with soft wool; stem- 

 leaves crowded, oblong lanceolate, .05 to .15 long. Corolla Mue^ netted- 

 veined. Fruiting racemes <^ews^, fruit often .01 broad — May to Au- 

 gust — Common throughout. 



6. SOL.EIVAIVTIIUS, Ledeb. Solenanthus. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla tubular, with erect lobes. Scales obtuse, 

 usually villous. Stamens 5, filaments inserted below middle of corolla, 

 usually long-exserted. Anthers oblong, entire. Stigma dot-like. 

 Nutlets 4, flattened, echinate with glochidiate prickles, concave, mar- 

 gined, or convex, not margined — More or less pubescent herbs, with 

 aspect of Cynoglossum. 



1, S. Tournefortii, DC. 1( .4 to .5 appressed-velvety, canes- 

 cent, thyrsoid above. Leaves 3-5-nerved, nerves parallel; the lower 

 leaves oblong, obtuse, tapering to a long petiole, blade .1 to .15 long, 

 .015 broad; stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, base somewhat clasping-de- 

 current. Racemes dense in flower, .05 to .1 long in fruit; calyx-lobes 

 oblong-linear, woolly ; corolla reddish-blue ; filaments nearly twice as 

 long as corolla; nutlets uniformly beset with barbed prickles with a 

 broad base ; margin distinct — May and June — Subalpine and alpine 

 Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



2. S. amplifolius, Boiss. If .6 to 1, sparingly and minutely 

 pubescent, green; stem stout, grooved, ending in a h-oad p)anicle. 

 Leaves membranous, netted-veined, the radical ovate-oblong, .3 to .3 

 long, .1 broad, cordate at hase, long-petioled ; the upper ovate to round- 

 ovate, cordate at base, obtusely auricled. Racemes .2 to .3 long in 

 fruit; calyx-lobes linear-spathulate, hirsute; corolla blue; filaments long- 

 exserted ; nutlets with tubercular-echinate disk, and margin beset with 

 several rows of barbed prickles with broad base — Spring — Jebel- 

 QulSb (Hauran) ; Antilebanon. 



7. TRACHELAI^THUS, Kunze. Trachelanthus. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla somewhat longer than calyx, cylindrical, 

 the upper half-dilated, deeply 5-lobed, lobes erect-connivent linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, and furnished at the base of the lobes with 5, promi- 

 nent, . retuse gibbi. Scales oblong, elongated. Stamens 5, with 

 broad, short filaments inserted under the throat, anthers long, linear, 

 sagittate at base. Stigma capitate. Nutlets 4, flattened-convex, in- 

 serted on a central column, echinate-glochidiate, not margined — Tall, 

 glabrous herbs, with large leaves, and large fruits. {CerintTwpsis, 

 Kotschy). 



