226 54. BORAGINACl^. 



[C. hassiaca (Pfeiff.) ;fl. stalked, cor. -tube bellshaped closed 

 with converging scales, stig. capitate ; Heliotrope-scented. On 

 Lucerne in Essex. Introduced. A. VIII. IX.] 



Order LIV. BORAGINACE.E. 



Cal. inferior, 4 5-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, re- 

 gular. Stain. 5, inserted on the corolla. Ovary 4-parted, 4- 

 seeded ; ovules pendulous. Style simple. Fr. separating in 4 

 nutlike or 2 bilocular portions. Seeds without albumen. Figures 

 of all the genera are in G. F. G. Gam. ii. 



Tribe I. CYNOGLOSSE^E. Nuts 4, on the persistent base of 

 the style. Stain, included. 



1. ASPERUGO. Cal. 5-cleft with alternate smaller teeth, en- 

 larged and compressed in fruit. Cor. funnelshaped with 

 rounded scales in the throat. Filaments of stam. short. 

 Nuts verrucose, compressed, attached by their narrow side, 

 covered by the compressed calyx. 



[2. ECHINOSPERMUM. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. salver- 

 shaped with rounded scales in the throat. Stam. subsessile. 

 Nuts triquetrous with muricated margins, attached by their 

 inner edge.] 



3. CYXOGLOSSUM. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. funnelshaped, the 

 mouth closed with prominent blunt scales. Filaments very 

 short. Nuts roundish-ovate,' depressed, muricated, attached 

 by their inner edge. 



Tr. II. ANCHUSE^E. Nuts 4, on an hypogynous disk, with 

 an excavated space surrounded by a tumid ring at their base. 



4. BORAGO. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. rotate ; tube very 

 short ; throat with short erect emarginate scales. Stam. 

 exserted ; filaments bifid, the inner fork bearing the anther ; 

 anthers linear-lanceolate, connivent in the form of a cone. 



5. ANCHUSA. Cal. 5-fid. Cor. funnelshaped with a straight 

 tube ; throat closed by prominent obtuse scales. Stam. in- 

 cluded, subsessile. Nuts depressed. 



6. LYCOPSIS. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Tube of the cor. 

 curved ; limb oblique. Otherwise like Anchusa. 



7- SYMPHYTUM. Cal. 5-cleft or 5-parted. Cor. cylindrical- 

 bellshaped, throat closed by a prominent cone of connivent 

 lanceolate-subulate scales. Stam. exserted from the tube but 

 covered by the scales ; filaments short. Nuts ovate. 



