540 BORRAGnSTE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



E. frutico§uiii, Desf. 5 Mugheird. Kahlidleli. .1 to .25, much 

 branched, with white Tjarlc^ appressed-canescent. Leaves oblong, .005 

 long, obtuse, closely appressed below, spreading above. Flowers sol- 

 itary, nearly sessile, in .02 to .04 long spikes at end of branches — 

 Spring — Coelesyria; Coast from Beirtit to Jaffa, and southward to 

 Et-Tih, Sinai, and Egypt. 



12. ROCHELIA, R'chb. Rochelia. 



Calyx 5-9-parted, lobes generally growing in fruit. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, minute, nearly equal to calyx, with obscure scales under 

 middle of tube. Stamens 5, included, filaments very short, anthers 

 oblong, retuse at base, with short, exserted connective at apex. Stigma 

 capitate. Nutlets 2, rarely 1, pyramidal, generally tubercled-glochid- 

 iate — Herbs. 



R. stelliilata, R'chb. .1 to .2, appressed-canescent, diffuse- 

 ly branching from base and above. Lower leaves orbicular to oblong- 

 spathulate, petioled, upper oblong to linear, sessile. Fruiting racemes 

 .05 to .1 long; bracts linear, longer than 5-lobed calyx; pedicels as 

 long as flowering, shorter than fruiting calyx, at length deflexed; 

 lobes of fruiting calyx hooJced-incurded, beset with hooked hairs, twice as 

 long as fruit; nutlets densely covered with steilate-giochidiate tu- 

 bercles — Spring — Fields and sandy places. 



Yar. g^enuiiia, Post. Spreading; corymbose paniculate from 

 base, .1 to .2 high — Fields and sandy places, Lebanon, Antilebanon 

 to Damascus, Aleppo, and northward. 



Var. erect a, Post. .2 to .4, stem simple below, paniculate above 

 — Aintab. 



13. ASPERUOO, L. German Madwort. 



Flowering calyx 5-clef t, lobes sinuate-dentate at base ; fruiting 

 calyx growing, flattened, with 2, broad valves, one 6- and the other 7- 

 dentate-lobed. Corolla small, nearly as long as calyx, almost funnel- 

 shaped, throat closed with small, obtuse scales, limb 5-lobed. Anthers 

 included, nearly sessile, ovate, retuse on each side. Stigma capitate. 

 Nutlets flattened laterally, pear-shaped, warty — Annual, flaccid herbs. 



A. procumbens, L. .3 to .5 retrorsely scabrous, procum- 

 bent. Leaves elliptical-oblong, radical petioled, upper tapering at base 

 opposite or in threes or fours. Flowers short-pedicelled, 3-4 in a clus- 

 ter opposite floral leaves; fruiting pedicels nodding; fruiting calyx 

 netted- veined, with acute, ciliate lobes — April and May — Fields and 

 roadsides ; everywTiere. 



14. SYMPHYTUM, Tourn. Comfrey. 



Calyx tubular, 5-cleft or -parted. Corolla cylindrical or funnel- 

 shaped, with a somewhat inflated limb cleft into short, broad lobes, 

 and furnished with long scales alternating with anthers (Fig. 251 g). 

 Stamens included. Nutlets 4, free, straight, oblique or horizontally 

 curved, excavated at the base which is surrounded by a ring — Peren- 

 nial, branching herbs, stems winged by decurrent petioles ; flowers (in 

 ours) white. 



