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No. 1. Cordate, palmately three- to five-nerved, and toothed with 

 glandular-mucronate, obtuse teeth. 



Nos. 2 and 3. Eeniform, five- or six-nerved with glandular-mucro- 

 nate, obtuse teeth. 



No. 4. Eeniform, palmately seven-nerved and toothed or sub- 

 lobulate. 



Wigandia Vigieri, Hort. (fig. 582). 



Primary root tender, succulent, flexuose, frequently giving off 

 rootlets at the angles. 



Hypocotyl short, tapering downwards, colourless under the soil, 

 red above it and hairy, 3-5 mm. long. 



Cotyledons very small, petiolate, pubescent, pale green; lamina 

 rhomboid, acute, 2 mm. long, T5 mm. wide ; 

 petiole 1-1-25 mm. long. 



Stem erect, terete, densely and coarsely 

 hairy, succulent in the young stage, purple ; in- 

 ternodes very variable, bringing the early leaves 

 nearly or quite opposite. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate (or a few 

 of the seedling leaves opposite), exstipulate, 

 petiolate, coarsely hairy on both sides, deep 

 green above with a purple midrib and fre- 

 quently splashed with purple, paler beneath 

 and irregularly splashed with purple, alter- 

 nately penninerved ; petioles subterete, narrowly channelled above, 

 tapering upwards from a stout base. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Small, opposite, ovate, obtuse, entire. 



Nos. 3 and 4. Opposite, ovate, subacute or obtuse, serrate. 



No. 5. Alternate, oblong, acute, cordate at the base, irregularly 

 or somewhat doubly dentate. 



No. 6. Cordate-oblong, obtuse, doubly dentate. 



No. 7 and 8. Cordate, elongate, acute, doubly dentate. 



BORAGINEJE. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL ii. 832. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary is superior, syncarpous, and 

 consists of two carpels each of which is two-ovuled. Some- 

 times it is entire, or again more or less deeply four-lobed and 

 two-celled, or the cells may be divided by spurious septa or 



