552 BOIIRAGINE.E. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



* * Stamens included. 



7. E. arenariuni, Guss. © (D hirsute -with appressed or 

 spreading hairs; stems ascending or prostrate, simple or branched. 

 Root-leaves oblong-spathulate, obtuse, tapering to a petiole, cauline 

 sessile, somewhat dilated at base, half-clasping, lanceolate. Spikes at 

 length elongated, loose ; bracts oblong-snbcordate; lower flowers often 

 outside of axils ; calyx strigose, almost uncfianged, lobes lanceolate, 

 obtuse; corolla .008 long, tubular-obconical, hirtulous, nearly twice as 

 long as calyx; nutlets acuminate, acutely tubercled, .002 long — Spring 

 — Sands; Phoenician coast (Tristram). 



8. E. calycimuMi, Viv. © .3 to .4, strigulose with appressed 

 and spreading bristles ; stems ascending and prostrate, ending in a 

 simple, rarely branched spike. Root-leaves rosetted, oblong to oblong- 

 spathulate, tapering to a petiole ; stem-leaves oblong to linear-lanceo- 

 late, sometimes half-clasping. Lower flowers often out of axils ; calyx 

 .005 long in fiower, .01 long in fruit, hispid; corolla .008 long, blue, 

 hirtulous, limb scarcely spreading, nutlets .0015 long, pyramidal, 

 rough-tubercled — Spring — Sandy places ; Beirut ; Aleppo. 



24. OBy'OSMA, L. Onosma. 



Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft. Corolla tubular or club-shaped, regular, 

 with naked throat, 5 teeth, and a nectariform, lobuled scale at inner 

 aspect of base. Filaments adnate to middle of tube, more or less free 

 above. Anthers sagittate at base, membranous-tipped, often coherent. 

 Style long, stigma bilobed. Nutlets straight, triquetrous-ovate to ob- 

 long, glossy or tubercled-scrobiculate ; basilar area flat — Herbs or 

 shrubs, often changing color after flowering. 



* Bristles of leaves arising from glabrous tubercles. 

 t Biennials. Nectary hisjnd. 



1. O, Aleppiciini, Boiss. (D .5 to .6, exceedingly strigose, wdth 

 spreading, .003 long bristles, and puberulent ; stems stifi", panicled. 

 Leaves oblong-linear to linear-lanceolate, the lewder tapering to a pe- 

 tiole. Racemes nodding in flow^er, erect and loose in fruit, few^-flowered ; 

 calyx .02 long in fruit, lobes linear, tapering ; corolla white, one- 

 fourth longer than calyx ; anthers exserted at tip, as long as their fila- 

 ments ; nutlets .007 long, tubercled — April to June — Wilderness of 

 Judea and Gaza to Lebanon, Coelesyria, Damascus, Antilebanon, Alep- 

 po, Aintab, and northward and eastward. 



0. echioides, L., said by Tristram to be found in Moab and Gilead, 

 is doubtless this species. 



1 1 Perennials. Nectary glabrous. Anthers free or coherent at base. 

 X Hairs of leaves and stems appressed. 



2. O. §ericeuiu, Willd. If .3 to .5, often yellowish ; branches 

 procumbent, - the sterile densely leafy, the fertile sparingly so, ending 

 in a simple or bifid raceme or few-flow^ered panicle. Lower leaves pe- 

 tioled, obovate-spathulate, upper oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, ses- 

 sile. Calyx-lobes 5, or by adhesion 4-3, .015 to .02 long in fruit, ob- 

 long-linear, indurated at base, keeled-gibbous ; corolla cream-colored, 



