550 BOERAGINE^. (BORAGE FAMILY). 



* Fruiting calyx groicing; tube crested or tubercled. Corolla yellow. 



2. A. coriiuta, Ledeb. .1 to .4, erect, hispid with appressed, 

 and yellowish spreading hairs; stem usually branching from base. 

 Lower leaves linear-oblong, upper linear-lanceolate, acute. Fruiting 

 I'Eicemes elongated, hose; bracts as long as calyx, or longer; base of fruit- 

 ing calyx indurated, pentagonal^ giWous^ crested at angles^ lobes linear^ 

 connivent; corolla .01 to .02 long, tube hirsute, once to twice as 

 long as calyx; stigma 2-4-cleft; nutlets .001 long, unequally tubercled — 

 Spring — Deserts from Et-Tih and Jericho to Palmyra, Aleppo, Ain- 

 tab, and northward and eastward. 



3. A. liuearifolia, DC. KahaU. Hind-el-Ghul. TeJialiq. 

 .05 to .1, strigulose with yellow, appressed and spreading hairs; stems 

 branching from neck. Root-leaves oblong-spathulate, somewhat pe- 

 tioled ; stem-leaves oblong-linear, obtuse. Fruiting racemes short, dense; 

 bracts linear, somewhat shorter than calyx ; fruiting calyx growing- 

 much, inflated, scarcely indurated at base, tubercled and hairy along 

 prominent nerxes, lobes often .02 long, linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved; co- 

 rolla-tube mllous, once-and-a-half as long as calyx; nutlets .002 long, 

 scrobiculate-tubercled — Sands ; Et-Tih to Palmyra, and northward an;^ 

 eastward. 



* * * Fruiting calyx groioing, tube not crested or tubercled, lobes elongated. 



4. A. tinctoria, Forsk. 5 S7iajarat-el-Arnab. .04 to. 06, ciner- 

 ascent with appressed, tubercled hairs ; stem branching from base. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, tapering at base. Fruiting racemes 

 dense, short, one-sided; bracts linear, somewhat longer than calyx; 

 calyx hirsute, lobes linear, .01 long, somewhat 3-nerved; corolla-tube 

 glabrous, pale molet, not longer than calyx; stigma 4-cleft; nutlets 

 smooth, glossy — Spring — Et-Tih, and southward. 



23. ECHIUM, L. Viper's Bugloss. Echium. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped or tubular-obconical, with 

 spreading, naked throat, and a more or less bilabiate, 5-lobed limb. 

 Stamens unequal, filaments long, anthers ovate, inserted by back. 

 Style long, filiform. Xutlets 4, free, inserted on a flat, triangular 

 areola at base of calyx, ovate, triquetrous, or pyramidal-tetragonal 

 tubercled-wrinkled — Perennial or monocarpic herbs. 



* Stamens exserted. 

 t Corolla flesh-colored, not more than .013 long. 



1. E. Italicum, L. (f) .5 to 2, or more, ashy or yellowish, 

 bristly-hispid, ending in a sjjreading or somewhat thyrsoid panicle, .3 to 

 .8 long. Leaves appressed-bristly, linear-lanceolate, the radical taper- 

 ing to a petiole, the floral long- acuminate, shorter than bi-fid racemes. 

 Racemes loose, spreading in fruit ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, densely se- 

 tose; corolla .013 long, twice as long as calyx — May to July — Fields 

 and waste places ; Syrian coast and interior plains. 



2. E. gloiiieratum, Poir. (f) .6 to 2, or more, ashy; stem simple, 

 bristly -hispid and pubescent, ending in an interrupted spilxc .Zto\ long. 

 Leaves appressed-setose, the radical lanceolate, tapering into a petiole, 



