518 BORRAGINACE.^]. Eriodidyon. 



12. ERIODICTYON, Benth. 

 Calyx deeply S-parted, the lobes or sepals not broader upwards. Corolla fiiiinel- 

 form or approaching «;;unpanulato or salvorform. JStanions more or less iiiLJiideil. 

 Stylos 2, distinct to the base ; thoir tips or the stignuis clavato-capitate. (Japsule 

 cnistaceous, small, globose-ovato and pointed, 2-cellod and with dilated placenta', 

 4-valved, i. e. at lirst loculicidal in the manner of the tribe, then septicidal, thus 

 splitting into four hard and thick half-valves, closed by a portion of the partition 

 on one side and partly open on the other. Ovules rather numerous, but seeds few. 

 — Low shrubs (Californian, &e.); the leaves alternate, of rigid coriaceous texture, 

 pinnately veined and with finely reticulated veinlets conspicuous on a fine woolly 

 ground (whence the generic name), at least underneath, their margins beset witli 

 rigid teeth, the base tapering into more or less of a petiole. Flowers in scorpioid 

 cymes collected in a terminal panicle : corolla violet or purple, varying to white. 

 Filaments variably adnate to the tube of the corolla, sometimes almost up to the 

 throat. — Benth. But. .Sulph. 35. 



1. E. tomentosum, Benth. White or in age rusty-colored with a dense coat 

 of short villous down, G to 10 feet high; branches leafy to the top: leaves oblong 

 or oval, very rigid, obtuse (2 to 4 inches long) : calyx and corolla villous, the 

 latter somewhat salverform and about twice tlie length of the former, — Torr. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 148. E. a-assi/oHum & U. tomentosum, Benth. 1. c. 



San Gabriel and Fort Tejon to San Diego, &c. Corolla hardly half an inch long. 



2. E. glutinosum, Benth. Smoothish, glutinous with a resinous exudation, 

 3 to 5 feet high : leaves (3 to 6 inches long) lanceolate, irregularly serrate or nearly 

 entire, whitened beneath between the reticulations by a minute close woolliness, 

 glabrous above : cymes in a long naked panicle : corolla tubidar-funnellonn, thrice 

 the length of the sparsely and slightly hairy calyx. — ]Vi(jandia Califoraica, Hook. 

 k Arn. Bot. Jieechey, 3(54, t. 88. 



Dry hills ; common throngh the western and southern portion of the State. Corolla half an 

 inch long. Infusion of the balsamic-rcsiniferous leaves in spirit used as a tonic. 



K. ANou.sTiroi.iu.M, Nutt. 1*1. fianil). (A', glutinosum, var. anguslifolium, Torr.), is found only 

 in the interior, from S. Nevada and Utali to the adjacent borders of New Mexico. It is barely 

 distinguished from E. g/utinosum by its linear leaves with revolute margins, and almost campau- 

 ulate corolla only 2 or 3 lines long. 



Order LXV. BORRAGINACE^. 



Mostly roughish-pubescent herbs, with colorless and inert juice, alternate entire 

 leaves without stipules, scorpioid inflorescence, and perfect regular 5-andr()Us llowers; 

 the ovary of 4 lobes or divisions around a central style, ripening into seeil-liko 

 nutlets, or when undivided 4-celled and 4-ovuled and splitting into nutlets (if 

 drupaceous containing Heed-like Htcnies). Calyx free, /)-j)arled or fi-cleft, pi isist- 

 ont. Corolla with a Globed lind), commonly imbricated in the bud. Stamens 

 distinct, inserted in the tube or throat of the corolla alternate with the lobes : an- 

 thers 2-cclled, opeiung lengthwise. Ovules solitary, anatropous, ami)hitro[»ous, or 

 almost orthotropous ; the orifice and the radicle of the straight end)ryo (mostly with- 

 out albumen) always superior or when the nutlets are horizontal centripetal, or in 

 one anomalous genus inferior in an erect nutlet. Lower leaves not rarely opposite. 



