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Diagnosis.— Echiail 



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Trees or shrubs, or herbaceous plants, 

 alternate, .nfcout stipules. Flow, 



ovation. ( orolla monopetalous, tubular, with 

 M manj * gn ■ ats ol its limb as the calyx, with 

 an imbricated Bsstivation. Stamens alten 

 with the Begments of the corolla, and i 

 them in number, arising from the bottom 

 the tube; anthers innate. Ovarj seated in an 

 annular disk, - 2- or more-celli .1 ; Btyle terminal ; 

 Btigma Bimple, 2-lobed • vul< - 

 l mil drupaceous, with as manj 

 are true cells of tli<- ovary. Seed susp n 

 solitary; testa simple, thin; embryo in tlio 

 midst of thin fleshv albumen, or without :m\ ; 

 radicle superior ; cotyledons plano-convi \. 



A branch of the old Boragineae, distinguished 

 by a terminal style pi : ., ^ 



of a perfectly concrete ovarj of i cells, a I 

 cate fruit, and seeds furnished with thin flesh} 

 albumen. The Order is re-combined with 

 Borage worts by Alph. 1>< Candolle, but it 

 in- sufficiently characterised by it- concrete 

 carpels, and the prest nee of a small quantity 

 Albumen, The separate, not separable, nuts 

 of Borageworts an bo peculiar, notwiths 

 that Cerinthe has thi m combined in pairs, that 

 a r. al objection Be< ms to exist to tl 



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them of these concrete-fruit* i Ehretiada. 



Most of 'them i are tropica] tre, s or shrubs, nativ, - of eith 

 "*"*&<* Europe and the > southerns 

 me north than the parallel ol i.v. 



Tl, Eairetia buxifolia is reckoned in Ind 



maltermgandpunfymgrnehabitincas 

 standing, l.an.limn mdicum is represented I 

 ulcers, or to allay aiflammation, Martius says with und 

 umbellata has a similar application in Mexic », wh. re ii is 

 aii.1 it is to be observed that the leaves ol Heliotropiun 

 in the samewaj as Tiaridium. Some Ehre( 

 oduur ol the Peruvian Heliotrope is known to eve] 





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