BORRAGINE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 541 



1. S. Palaeitinwni, Boiss. If .3 to .5, pale-green, pubescent- 

 viscid, with a few bristles. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, round or 

 cordate at base, .03to.l long, the lower long-petioled, the upper 

 short-petioled or sessile. Calyx .015 long in fruit, lobes linear; corol- 

 la more than twice as long as flowering calyx, scales as long as anthers ; 

 nutlets straight, reticulate-rugose, tubercled — Spring — Hill country 

 from Jerusalem and Es-Salt to Lebanon, Antilebanon, Nusairy Moun- 

 tains, Amanus, Aintab, Marash, and northward. 



2. S. Orieiitale, L. 11 .3 to .5 or more, soft-hirsute with wavy 

 hairs; stems erect. Leaves oblong-cordate, the lower petioled, the 

 upper sessile, all rounded or cuneate at base. Calyx .008 long in fruit, 

 with lanceolate lobes ; corolla twice as long as flowering calyx, scales 

 a little longer than anthers; nutlets minute, smooth, oMique, constrict- 

 ed above base — Spring — Gilead and Hauran (Tristram). 



15. SOMACtO, L. Borage. Lisdn-eth-Thaur. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, tube short or 0, limb spreading, 

 5-lobed; scales glabrous, retuse. Filaments short, thick, furnished 

 with an obtuse appendage beneath tip; anthers exserted, connivent in 

 a cone. Nutlets 4, free, hollowed out at base, and surrounded by a 

 plicate ring — Annual or perennial herbs. 



B. officinalis, L. © .5 to 1, hispid-strigose ; stems erector 

 ascending, thickish, panicled-corymbose. Lower leaves ovate, taper- 

 ing to a petiole, upper sessile, oblong. Peduncles elongated, in fruit 

 nodding at tip ; calyx-lobes linear; corolla blue, .015 broad, villous 

 within, lobes ovate-oblong, acute; scales triangular-ovate, retuse; an- 

 thers mucronate ; nutlets straight, wrinkled and tubercled, 2-toothed 

 at tip — Summer — Abeih (adveutive). 



16. AIVCHUSA, L. Bugloss. 



Calyx 5 -cleft or parted, generally growing in fruit. Corolla fun- 

 nel-shaped, with straight or curved, gibbous tube, throat closed by 5, 

 obtuse, papillose scales. Stamens included. Nutlets hollow at the 

 base, which is surrounded by a tumid, often plaited ring — Perennial 

 or monocarpic herbs. 



* Perennials. 

 t Calyx 5-eleft. Nutlets oUiquely curved. 



1. A. officinalis, L. 2f (D .4 to .6, patulous-hispid or woolly, 

 panicled. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, entire or sub- 

 repand, wavy-margined. Bracts triangular-lanceolate to ovate-cordate; 

 pedicels shorter than calyx, at length nodding ; calyx campanulate, 

 cleft for one-third to one-half of its length into lanceolate lobes; co- 

 rolla blue, tube exserted; scales ovate, velvety; nutlets .003 long, 

 minutely tubercled, more or less constricted above ring — April to 

 August — Coast to subalpine regions ; common throughout. 



2. A. liybrida, Ten. (D .4 to .5, villous hispid, branching 

 from base or above, panicled. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong- 

 linear, somewhat wavy-margined. Bracts ovate-cordate; pedicels 

 shorter than calyx, at length nodding ; calyx campanulate, cleft for 



