BORAGINE^: 



359 



Flowers in a double row on one side of a long 

 axis, which is coiled in a spiral at the end and may 



FIG. 81 

 TRICHODESMA INDICUM, Br. 



look like a one-sided spike, but is really a cymose 

 inflorescence of a sympodial type, each flower being 

 the end of the axis a typical scorpioid cyme (p, 195). 

 Calyx of five lanceolate segments, corolla small, tubu- 

 lar below, spreading above with five lobes which are 

 imbricate in bud, stamens five, with short filaments 



