538 BORRAGINE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



corolla; nutlets with denticulate margin; style longer than fruit — 

 Spring — Alpine Lebanon. (Mattia Schlumhergeri, Boiss.) 



9. PARACARYUm, Boiss. Paracartum. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped, with ascending lobes. 

 Stamens included ; anthers elliptical, longer than filaments and capitate 

 stigma. Nutlets with glabrous or tubercled disk, and inflexed or 

 flattened, toothed margins — Herbs with aspect of Cynoglossum. 



* Nutlets icith introjlexed, um-sTiajoed or cup-shaped margins. 

 t Annuals. 



1. P. micrantliuiii, Boiss. © SuleisileJi. .05 to .1, in fruit 

 .15, velvety-asperulous, greyish; stems tender, erect or ascending, few- 

 branched. Root-leaves oblong, obtuse, the others oblong-linear. Fruit- 

 ing racemes loose, one-sided; fruiting pedicels recurved as long as 

 calyx or shorter ; corolla blue, minute, limb as long as tube ; nutlets 

 .003 broad, cup-shaped with echinulate or unarmed disk, and more or 

 less introflexed denticulate margin — Spring — Et-Tih and Sinai. 



1 1 Perennials. 



2. P. ru|[u1osum, D. C. 2f Um-Libheid. .3 to .3, canescent, 

 often with retrorse hairs; root vertical; stems tufted. Lower leaves 

 oblanceolate, lonsr-tapering at base, upper lanceolate to linear. In- 

 florescence a stiff panicle ; corolla violet to purple, limb shorter than 

 tube ; fruiting racemes loose, short ; fruiting pedicels as long as calyx 

 or longer; nutlets hamper-shaped, with echinulate or unarmed disk, and 

 rugose, denticulate, introflexed margin — Spring — Et-Tih, and south- 

 ward to Sinai. 



* * Nutlets with slightly concave or flattened margin. 

 t Style onQ-Jifth to one-fourth as long as nutlets. 



3. P. Hiyo§otoicles, Labill. If .lto.25, with grey, appressed 

 indument ; stems ascending, simple or branching almost from base. 

 Radical and lower leaves oblong, petioled ; stem-leaves sessile, linear. 

 Corolla violet-blue, limb shorter than tube ; fruiting racemes elongated, 

 loose ; fruiting pedicels spreading-recurved, shorter than calyx; nutlets 

 with echinate, rarely unarmed disk, and membranous, denticulate, 

 rarely entire margins ; style one-fifth as long as nutlet — July to Oc- 

 tober — Alpine Lebanon and Hermon; Akher Dagh, and northward. 



4. P. lainprocarpum, Boiss. % .3 to .7, clothed with long, 

 white hairs tubercled at base. Leaves linear-lanceolate, the lower .06 

 to .1 long, .006 to .01 broad, petioled. Raceme terminal, generally 

 bifid, or several, elongated, loose in fruit. Pedicels somewhat shorter 

 than calyx ; corolla blue, once and a half as long as calyx ; scales short- 

 er than limb, ovate, inflated and recurved at tip; nutlets glossy^ un- 

 armed, with broad, flat, entire or obsoletely repand margin — Summer — 

 Rocks; Antilebanon and Coelesyria. 



1 1 St7jle as long as nutlets. 



5. P. velutinum, Post. Sp. Nov. (D ? .3 or more, appressed- 

 velvety, greyish-canescent. Root-leaves oblong-spathulate, tapering into 

 a petiole several times longer than blade ; stem-leaves linear-spathulate. 



