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1. E. penduliflora, Benth. A span to a foot high; somewhat viscid; leaves pinna- 

 tifid; pedicels filiform, abont half an inch long, equaling the nodding corolla. 



5. ROMANZOFFIA, Cham. 



Stamens unequal; style filiform. Low perennial herbs, with the aspect of saxifrages; 

 the leaves mainly radical, round-cordate, or reniform, crenately 7-11-lobed, long petioled. 



1. R. Sitchensis, Bong. Scapes weak, a span long, bearing several pink or pur- 

 ple, varying to white flowers; corolla veiny. 



6. ERIODICTYON, Benth. 



Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla funnel-form to salver-form. Stamens included. Low 

 ehrubs; the leaves alternate, of rigid coriaceous texture, the finely reticulated veinlets 

 conspicuous on a fine woolly ground, at least underneath, their margins beset with rigid 

 teeth. 



1. E. glutinosum, Benth. (MOUNTAIN BALM, or YERBA SANTA.) Smooth, glu- 

 tinous with a resinous exudation, 3 to 5 ft. high; leaves lanceolate, 3 to 6 inches long; 

 cymes in a naked panicle; corolla tubular, funnel-form, violet or nearly white, half an 

 inch long. 



E. tomentosum, Benth. , grows farther down the coast. It is larger with smaller almost salver-form 

 flowers; densely villous. 



ORDER 40. BORRAGINACEJE. 



Mostly roughly pubescent herbs, with alternate entire leaves without stipules, scor- 

 pioid inflorescence, and perfectly regular 5-androus flowers; the ovary of 4 lobes or 

 divisions around a central style, ripening into seed-like nutlets. Calyx free, 5-parted 

 or 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla with a 5-lobed limb, commonly imbricated in the bud. 

 Stamens distinct, inserted in the tube or throat of the corolla alternate with its lobes. 

 The one-sided and coiled apparent spikes or racemes straighten as the blossoms develop. 



All our species except the first belong to the true Borrage Tribe. 



* Fruit not prickly. 



Corolla with plaited sinuses; stigma sessile Heliotropium. 1 



Corolla yellow. Bristly-hispid plants Amsinckia. 2 



Corolla white Eritrichium. 3 



* * The nutlets prickly, bur-like. 



Flowers sky-blue (rarely white) in bracteate racemes Echinospermum. 4 



Flower purple, blue and violet in a peduncled raceme Cynoglossum. 5 



Flowers minute; nutlets winged, or boat-shaped Pectocarya. 6 



