HYDROLEA.] HYDEOPHYLLACE^. 81 



Common in wet ground, and often met with in rice-fields. Flowers Octo- 

 ber December. DISTRIB. Throughout India, ascending to 4,000 ft. on 

 the Himalaya, also in Ceylon and Burma, extending to the Malay Penin- 

 sula and Islands, China, the Philippines, Australia, Trop. Africa and 



' America. The leaves are sometimes used as a poultice and are regarded 

 as possessing antiseptic properties. 



LXXVI.-BORAGINACEJE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, often hispid or scabrous. Leaves usually 

 alternate, exstipulate. Inflorescence usually a dichotomous cyme 

 with scorpioid branches, sometimes S-chotomounly panicled, rarely 

 solitary and axillary. Flowers 2-sexual and usually regular, with or 

 without bracts. Calyx inferior, 5- rarely 6-8-toothed or lobed, usually 

 persistent and often accrescent in fruit, tube sometimes very sbort. 

 Corolla usually 6 -lobed, often with scales in the throat ; lobes imbri- 

 cate in bud, rarely twisted. Stamens on tbe corolla-tube, as many as 

 the lobes and alternate with them ; filaments filiform, often dilated at 

 the base. Disk bypogynous or obsolete. Ovary superior, 2-celled 

 witb 2 ovules in each cell, or 4-celled with one ovule in each cell ; style 

 terminal or gynobatdc, long or sbort, simple or once or twice forked, 

 ovules erect, anatropous. Fruit a drupe, or dividing into 2-4 

 nutlets. Seeds erect OP obliq ue, testa membranous, albumen fleshy 

 -or none, radicle superior. Species about 1,500, cosmopolitan. 



Ovary entire or slightly 4-lobed, style terminal. 

 Style twice forked. Trees . . . .1. CORDIA. 

 Style once forked or styles 2. 



Style bifid. Trees or shrubs . . . 2. EHEETIA. 

 Styles free at the base and apex, but easily 

 separable at the middle. A prostrate 



herb 3. GOLDEN IA. 



Style 1 , simple. A virgate shrub . . . 4. EHABDIA. 

 Style with a depressed stigmatose ring below 



the apex. Herbs 5. HELIOTROPIUM. 



Ovary deeply 4-lobed, style gynobasic (except 

 in Trichodesma). 



Anthers connivent in a cone, connectives 

 much produced and twisted together at the 

 apex, style subterminal. Herbs . . 6. TRICHODESMA. 

 Anthers not connivent in a cone, included, 

 style gynobasic. Herbs. 

 -Nutlets attached to a convex or conical 



carpophore. . . - 



