BORRAGINEiE. (BORAGE FAMILY,) 539 



Racemes 1 -3, from near base. Calyx-lobes linear, reflexed in fruit, 

 nearly as long as r^ei'^/'i pedicels ; corolla cylindrical-ohconical^ nearly 

 twice as long as calyx; scales erect, oblong, 5 times as long as short co- 

 rolla-lobes; nutlets .01 long and bioad, unarmed, glabrous, glossy, mar- 

 gin broader than cell, somewhat concave, denticulate — May — QakMn 

 (Antilebanon Plateau.), Plant resembling P. Aucheri, DC, but dis- 

 tinguished by its appressed-velvety indument and long corolla. 



10. ECHIXOSPERMUM, Swartz. Stickseed. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla salver-shaped, throat closed by minute 

 scales. Stamens included, anthers longer than filament. Nutlets 

 sometimes more or less adnate to each other, erect, 3-augied or flat- 

 tened ; disk tubercled or smooth, margined with 1-3 rows of glochidiate 

 prickles free or connate at base — Herbs with minute white or bluish 

 flowers, and pyramidal fruit usually appressed-strigulose, (ours not 

 more than ,002 to .003 long). 



* JSutlets heeled, icith 2ntted muricate surface, and indistinct margin. 



1. E. spinocarpiis, Forsk, .1, canescent or virescent, more 

 or less branched from base. Leaves linear-spathulate, ,01 to .015 long. 

 Racemes loose ; bracts linear, longer than fruit; pedicels very short; 

 fruiting calyx tioice as long as fruit; nutlets keeled — Spring — Deserts 

 east and south of Syria and Palestine. 



** Nutlets with dish, and 1-3 roios of glochidiate 'prichles at distinct margin. 



2. E. barbatuni, M. B. ©@ .3 to .5, canescent, many stemmed; 

 stems paniculate above. Leaves linear-S'pathulate to linear, .02 to .035 

 long. Racemes at length much elongated; bracts minute; frniMug 

 calyx scarcely longer than fruit; disk tubercled, margins with 3 rows of 

 prickles — Spring — Antilebanon ; Damascus plain, and northward 

 and eastward. 



3. E. Eappula, L. © @ .3 to .4, appressed-hirsute; stem 

 panicled. Leaves lanceolate-ollong, the radical petioled, .1 to .15 long, 

 the cauline stiff, sessile, diminished. Racemes at length elongated ; 

 lower bracts longer than calyx; fruiting calyx as long as fruit; disk tu- 

 bercled; margin with 3-3 rows of prickles — Summer — El-Jebel-el- 

 Ahmar (Amanus). 



* * * Nutlets iDith one row of glochidiate pricMes at margin. 



4. E. SiIlaicu^l, D. C. .1 to .3, hispidulous; stems slender, 

 flexuous, simple or sparingly branched. Lower leaves oblong, taper- 

 ing to a petiole, the upper oblong, sessile. Racemes few-flowered, at 

 length loose; pedicels as long as or longer than fruiting calyx, erect 

 or recurved ; calyx-lobes linear, reflexed in fruit; corolla minute, blue; 

 nutlets minutely tubercled — Spring — Sandy places ; Sinai. 



11. ECHIOCHIEON, Desf. Echiochilon. 



Calyx 5-parted, the inner lobe smaller, often 0. Corolla-tube slen- 

 der, somewhat curved, throat naked, limb spreading, 3-lipped, uppe 

 lip obsoletely 3-lobed, lower 3-lobed. Anthers 5, subsessile, includedr 

 Style included; stigma 2-lobed. Nutlets 4, ovate, glabrous — Low 

 shrubs growing in sand of coast and deserts. 



