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BORAGINE^E. III. MATTIA. 



1. Throat of corolla furnished with vaulted processes. 



III. MA'TTIA (meaning unknown to us.) Sclmltes, obs. p. 

 SO. syst. 4. p. X. Cynoglossum species of authors. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogynia. Calycine segments linear- 

 lanceolate. Corolla tubularly funnel-shaped ; tube pentagonal ; 

 segments of the limb linear, lanceolate, or roundish ; throat 

 furnished with compressed emarginate conniving processes, 

 which are the length of the tube. Anthers sagittate, inclosed 

 or exserted, connivent. Stigma simple. Nuts 4, 1-seeded, 

 winged by a flat, emarginate, orbicular, diaphanous membrane, 

 concave outside, glabrous, shining, fixed to the central column at 

 the base (top ?). Erect plants, with sessile leaves, and terminal 

 racemes of drooping flowers. 



1. Nuts compressed, smooth. Stamens exserted. 



1 M. UMBELLA'TA (Schultes obs. p. 32.) leaves narrow-lance- 

 olate, downy, canescent ; racemes terminal, umbellate ; corolla 

 a little longer than the calyx, 

 with oblong obtuse segments ; 

 nuts smooth. If.. H. Native 

 of Siberia and Hungary. Cy- 

 noglossum umbellatum, Waldst. 

 et Kit. pi. hung. 2. p. 158. t. 

 148. Horn. hort. hafn. 1. p. 

 178. Willd. enum. 1. p. 181. 

 Sym phylum regium, Gmel. syst. 

 2. p. 320. Gmel. itin. 3. t. 

 36. f. 1. Root nearly simple, 

 perpendicular. Stems simple, 

 bluntly angular, hairy. Radical 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, tapering 

 into the petioles ; upper cauline 

 ones sessile. Pedicels and ca- 

 lyxes woolly. Corolla yellow, 

 tinged with red ; processes of 

 the throat red or wanting ? 



Umbellate-flowered Mattia. 



FIG. 33. 



Fl. May, June. Clt. 1822. 



PI. 1| foot. 



2. Nuts compressed. Stamens inclosed. 



2 M. LANA'TA (Schultes, obs. p. 31. syst. 4. p. 82.) leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate; villous, canescent, rather scabrous ; flowers race- 

 mose; corolla twice longer than the calyx, with linear, connivent 

 segments ; nuts smooth. 7{ . H. Native of Armenia. Cyno- 

 glossum lanatum, Lam. diet. 2. p. 238. Desf. ann. mus. 10. p. 

 432. t. 37. Tourn. cor. p. 7. Stems angular, simple, clothed 

 with hoary tomentum, divided into simple floriferous branches at 

 top. Racemes loose, simple, terminal, and in the axils of the 

 superior leaves ; pedicels recurved, and are, as well as the 

 calyxes, woolly. Calycine segments linear, acute. Nuts ovate, 

 cordate, clypeate. Corollas reddish, drooping. 



Woolly Mattia. Fl. June. Clt. 1800. PI. 1| foot. 



3 M. GLASTIFOLIA ; leaves lanceolate, glabrous, beset by a few 

 scattered papillae beneath, and denticulately scabrous on the edges ; 

 flowers racemose ; corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx, with 

 roundish segments ; nuts muricate in the centre, with mem- 

 branous edges. If.. H. Native of Armenia. Cynoglossum 

 glastifblium, Willd. spec. i. p. 764. Desf. cor. Tourn. in ann. 

 mus. 10, p. 430. t. 35. Rindera glastifolia, Roem. et Schultes, 

 syst. 4. p. 83. Stem branched at top. Peduncles axillary and 

 terminal, few-flowered, glabrous ; pedicels racemose, loose ; and 

 are, as well as the edges of the calyxes, papillose. Segments 

 of the calyx lanceolate, obtuse. Corollas blue. 



Glastum-leaved Mattia. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



4 M. ANGUSTIFOLIA ; leaves linear, hispid from pili ; flowers 

 racemose ; corollas twice as long as the calyx, with rounded 



segments ; nuts smooth, having the marginal membranes denti- 

 culated. I/ . H. Native of Armenia. Cynoglossum angusti- 

 folium, Willd. spec. l.p. 763. Lehm. asp. p. 171. Cynogl. 

 emarginatum, Lam. ill. no. 1799. Cynogl. racemosum, Schreb. 

 in act. bonn. 3. p. 4 76. Rindera ? emarginata, Roem. et Schultes, 

 syst. 4. p. 83. Stems numerous, simple, canescent, pilose, 

 angular. Flowers erect, secund, disposed into 2 terminal bract- 

 less racemes. Calyx hoary, with lanceolate bluntish segments. 

 Scales in the throat lanceolate-acute, small. Corollas blue. 

 Narrow-leaved Mattia. PI. | to 1 foot. 



5 M. CRISTA'TA ; leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuated at the 

 base, hispid from pili ; flowers racemose ; corollas a little longer 

 than the calyx, with rounded segments ; nuts muricated in the 

 centre, and crestedly rayed along the edges of the wings. 

 I/ . H. Native of Armenia. Cynoglossum crist&tum, Lam. 

 diet. 2. p. 237. Lehm. asp. 189. Schreb. nov. act. cur. 3. 

 p. 478. exclusive of the synonymes. Omphalodes cristata, 

 Schrank, denks. acad. wiss. munch. 1811 and 1812, p. 221. 

 Root perpendicular. Stems hispid, simple, furnished with some 

 racemiferous peduncles at apex. Racemes 2-3 terminal, and 

 some lateral, many-flowered, loose, drooping before florescence. 

 Pedicels secund, and are, as well as the calyxes, hispid, grey. 

 Calycine segments lanceolate, bluntish. Corollas blue. Stamens 

 inclosed, as in the 2 preceding species. 



CVesW-fruited Mattia. PI. l foot. 



6 M. COLU'MN* ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, stem-clasping, 

 villous ; flowers racemose ; corollas about equal in height to 

 the calyx, with rounded lobes; nuts muricated in the centre, and 

 denticulately rayed on the edges of the wings. T. H. Native 

 near the town of Aversa, in stony dry places. Cynoglossum 

 Columnse, Biv. stirp. rar. sic. man. 2. Tenore, prod. fl. neap, 

 p. 33. Cynogl. cristatum, /3. Lam. diet. 2. p. 298. Willd. 

 spec. 1. p. 764. Column, ecphr. 1. p. 177. t. 178. Morr. hist. 

 3. p. 449. sect. 11. t. 30. f. 7. Stem angular. Racemes panicled, 

 terminal. Calycine segments ovate-lanceolate, bluntish. Corolla 

 dirty purple, with deeper veins. Scales of the throat ciliated. 

 Stamens inclosed. 



Columna's Mattia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1825. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



7 M. MAGELLE'NSE ; leaves linear-lanceolate: superior ones 

 broader at the base ; flowers disposed in compact racemes ; 

 corollas about equal in length to the calyx, with rounded lobes ; 

 nuts membranous, muricated in the centre and on the margins. 

 7|. H. Native of Magella. Cynoglossum Magellense, Tenore 

 prod. neap. p. 33. Lehm. asp. p. 108. Plant white from villi. 

 Calyx woolly, with linear segments. Said to be nearly allied to 

 M. lanata. Corolla purplish. 



Magella Mattia. PI. 1 foot. 



3. Nuts depressed, with denticulately ray edges. Stamens in- 

 closed. Flowers solitary. This section will probably consti- 

 tute a new genus. 



8 M. FILOSA ; leaves linear, pilose, hoary ; flowers solitary, 

 pedicellate, alternating with the leaves ; nuts denticulately rayed 

 on the edges. () H. Native of Peru, in the provinces of 

 Cercada and Chancay, in arid places. Cynogl&ssum pilosum, 

 Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 6. t. 111. f. 6. Lehm. asp. p. 167. 

 Plant hoary pilose. Stem slender, divided into loose, nearly 

 simple branches. Leaves 1 to Ij inch long. Pedicels much 

 shorter than the leaves. Calyx pilose. Corolla tubular, with 

 a flat limb. Nuts ovate, depressed, glabrous, surrounded by a 

 serrated membrane. 



Pilose Mattia. PI. \ foot. 



9 M. LATERIFLOKUM ; leaves linear, pilose ; flowers solitary, 

 nearly sessile, opposite the leaves ; calyxes unequal, a little 

 shorter than the corolla; nuts with deeply-rayed edges. O- H. 

 Native of Chili about Santiago, and of Peru about Lima, in 

 arid fields. Cynoglossum lateriflorum, Lam. diet. 2. p. 237. ill. 



