EORRAGINE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 535 



inserted on tube, with short filaments and long anthers, velvety or 

 woolly at back, with awl-shaped tips twisted to the left, connivent in 

 a cone. Style filiform. Nutlets erect, central column quadrangular — 

 Strigose, desert herbs, leaves in ours opposite. 



1. T. Africanuni, L. If Khulr. Shauk-ed-DaV . Hamimah. 

 Murreiq. Lizzeiq. A to .5, glabrous or pubescent between pricldes. 

 Leaves oblong-ovate to oblong, with truncate or cuneate base. Racemes 

 terminal, nearly naked ; pedicels filiform, strigose, as long as calyx ^ at 

 length nodding; flowers .006 long, calyx truncate at base, slightly 

 auricled, with triangular, acute lobes ; nutlets granular at back, with 

 denticulate margin — Spring — Wadis around the Dead Sea, and 

 southward. 



Var. Ehrentoergii, Post. Leaves truncate at base, pubescent 

 between prickles. Flowers scarcely .004 long {T. ElirenbergiijSchiceinf.) 

 Sinai. 



2. T. Boi§sieri, Post. or If (Journ. Linnsean Soc, Lond., 

 Bot. vol. xxiv. p. 436). .4 to .5, silky-grey, somewhat pannous above; 

 stems ascending, corymbose-[>auicled above. Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, entire, acutish, the lower .05 long, .02 broad, tapering to 

 a petiole, the upper sessile, heart-shaped at base, clasping, elliptical. 

 Racemes few-flowered, terminal; bracteoles linear-lanceolate ; pedicels 

 tioice to thrice as long as calyx, at length nodding; flowers .02 broad; 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate; outer and lower aspect of anthers 

 densely pannous — Spring — Ruins of Qosr-el-'Abd at 'Iraq-el- Amir 

 (Moab). 



4. CACCINIA, Savi. Caccinia. 



Calyx 5-cleft beyond middle, growing in fruit and then stellate. 

 Corolla salver-shaped, tube longer than calyx, throat broadening sud- 

 denly, closed within by arched scales, lobes spreading, somewhat un- 

 equal, linear to oblong. Stamens inserted at apex of tube ; anthers 

 exserted, the lateral and anterior smaller, unequal, nearly sessile, the 

 posterior longer, versatile, long-exserted. Style filiform, long-exsert- 

 ed, expanded at base in fruit to a membranous-crustaceous cup,^ en- 

 closing nutlets. Fertile nutlets 2 or 1, flattened, ovate or orbicular, 

 horizontal-suspended — Strigose herbs. 



C Russelii, Boiss. (D .2 to .6; stem thick, leafy, stiff branched, 

 ending in a pyramidal thyrsus. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 

 upper surface and margin tubercular-aculeate. Corolla-tube twice as 

 long as calyx, lobes linear, obtuse ; posterior anther thrice as long as 

 the others; nutlets ovate, keeled, with flat disk, and denticulate margin 

 — Spring — Fields and dry places; Damascus to Aleppo, and eastward. 

 Syrian Desert (Qaryetein to Palmyra). 



5. CY^^OOLOSSUM, L. Hound's Tongue. Lisdn-el-Kelb. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped, the tube nearly as long 

 as calyx ; the limb 5-lobed, spreading ; the throat closed by 5 scales. 

 Stamens included ; anthers oblong. Stigma entire or retuse. Nutlets 



