474 BORAGINACE ERIODICTYON 
ticulated leaves and violet purple or white flowers in scorpioid 
cymes. Sepals narrow, not enlarging upward. ~ Corolla funnel- 
form or approaching campanulate. Filaments more or less in- 
cluded, inserted on the tube and more or less adnate to it, usually 
sparsely hirsute. Ovary nearly or completely 2-celled by the 
meeting of the dilated placentae in the axis. Capsule small, 
crustaceous, 4-valved, that is first loculicidal then septicidal thus 
splitting into 4 half-carpels which are closed on one side owing to 
the widely dilated placentae, and partly open on the other. Seeds 
rather few, pendulous, | 
E. glutinosum Benth. 1. c. Glabrous, and glutinous with a balsamic 
resin: stems erect, 3-5 feet high: leaves lanceolate, 83-6 inches long, irregu- 
larly more or less serrate, sometimes entire, whitened beneath between the 
reticulation by a minute and close tomentum, dark green and glabrous above, 
persistent for more than a year: flowers purple, numerous, in elongated naked 
thyrsoid cymes: sepals subulate, 2 lines long, sparsely hirsute: corolla 6 lines 
long, tubular-funnelform, sparsely hairy: capsule globose-ovate, pointed; 2 
lines ong. On dry open hillsides, southern Oregon to California. 
~ OrpER LXV. BORAGINACE Lindl, Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 274. 
Mostly scabrous or hispid-hairy plants with bland watery 
juice, mostly alternate entire leaves without stipules and rather 
small regular flowers in scorpioid racemes spikes or cymes. 
Flowers perfect, generally 5-merous. se free from the 
ovary, usually persistent. Corolla gamopetalous, mostly regu- 
lar and 5-lobed, sometimes crested or appendaged in the throat. 
Hypogynous disk usually present but inconspicuous. Stamens 
inserted on the throat or tube of the corolla, as many as and 
alternate with its lobes. Style simple, rising between the 
divisions of a deeply 4-parted ovary, or from the summit of an 
undivided one. Ovary of 2 biovuled entire or more commonly 
deeply 2-lobed carpels, making it appear like 4 l-ovuled car- 
pels. Ovules anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit 4, or by 
abortion fewer, nutlets, or a drupe containing 2-4 nutlets or 
cells, rarely reduced to one. Seeds with little or no albumen, 
and straight or curved embryo with superior or centripetal 
radical. | 
I Ovary undivided and surmounted by the style. 
TrIBE 1 Low herbs shrubs or trees. Style once forked: the 
branches tipped with a simple stigma. 
Coldenia Corolla-lobes imbricated or partly convolute in the bud: style 
simply and deeply 2-cleft: fruit separating into 4 dry carpels. 
TRIBE 11 Herbs cr sometimes shrubby plants. Style terminal, 
sometimes very short or none, entire. Stigma a fleshy ring, or 
margin of a disk, often surmounted by a mostly conical appendage. 
2 Heliotropium Corolla-lobes imbricated in the bud with the sinuses plait- 
e1: fruit splitting into 4 one-seeded or 2 two-celled and 2-seeded carpels. 
