BORBAGINE^. (ROEAGE FAMILY.) 



T. cerinthioides, Boiss. 21 .6 to 

 1, glabrous, glaucescent ; stem stout, end- 

 ing in a corymb partly concealed by upper 

 leaves. Leaves sparingly beset with small 

 calcareous tubercles beneath, the radical 

 oblong, .4 to .5 long, petioled, tapering or 

 truncate at base ; the upper smaller, oblong 

 from subcordate base. Racemes few-flower- 

 ed; pedicels slender, longer than calyx; 

 calyx-lobes elliptical, to oblong, obtuse or a- 

 cutish; fruits .012 broad, nutlets echinate- 

 gloehidiate, with short prickles — Spring — 



Kurdicus, Post. Calyx-lobes oblong- 

 linear. Prickles of fruit longer. {T. Kurdi- 

 cus, Ky. Gerinthopsis foliosa, Paine.) 



537 



Fig. 252. 



Fruit of 



Traclielanthus cerinthioides. 



Yar. Kurdicus, Post. 



§. RINI>£RA, Pall. RiNDERA. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla tubular to funnel-shaped, with upright 

 lobes, and long or short scales inserted near base or throat of tn.be. 

 Stamens more or less exserted. Stigma (in ours) dot-like. Nutlets 



flattened, unarmed, with a broad, 

 ulate margin — Perennial herba. 

 Mattia. Schultz.) 



flattened, entire, repand, or dentic- 

 (lucludes Cyphomattia, Boiss., and 



Stout-stemmed herhs, not growing in tufts 



Fig. 353. 



1, R. lauata, Lam. 2f .15 to .5; root- 

 stock thick, scaly; stems stout, corymbose- 

 paniculate. Leaves firm, appressed-canescent 

 or green, tubercled-dotted, the radical petioled, 

 oblong, cuneate at base, those of stem oblong 

 to lanceolate, petioled to sessile-half-clasping. 

 Inflorescence fleecy ; flowering racemes capitate, 

 fruiting elongated; corolla pinTc, at length 

 iluish, with 5, inflated gibbi above base, and 

 linear-lanceolate lobes longer than tube ; scales 

 near base of corolla, oblong; stamens much 

 shorter than corolla; pedicels about as long as 

 fruits or longer, ascending; wings of nutlets as 

 broad as cells or broader, orbicular, radiately 

 plaited, entire or repand; fruit .03 in diameter; 

 styles nearly as long as fruit — Spring — Rocky 

 places; Aintab, and northward. {Cyphomattia 

 lanata, Lam. in Fl. Or. IV. 272). 



* * Tufted, alpine herds. 



2. R. Sclilumbergeri, Boiss. If .06 to .1, appressed-canes- 

 cent. Root-leaves ovate-oblong, spathulate, .015 to .02 long, .01 broad, 

 tapering to a petiole ; stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile, tapering at 

 base. Lower pedicels axillary, the others naked at base, all stiff, twice 

 to thrice as long as fruit ; corolla purple, cleft for one-sixth its length 

 into ovate lobes; scales transversely plaited, shorter than filaments and 



71 



Fruit of 

 Eindera lanata. 



