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B0EA6INACEAE. 



4. EOCHEFOKTIA Sw. Prodr. 53. 1788. 



Shrubs or small trees, mostly armed witli short spines, the leaves entire, 

 petioled, often fascicled, the small flowers cymose or glomerate. Calyx 4r-5- 

 parted, the lobes imbricated. CbroUa snbrotate, the tube very short, the 4 or 5 

 lobes broad, imbricated. Stamens 4 or S, borne on the corolla- tube, asserted; 

 filaments filiform; anthers ovate. Disc tiiiek. Ovary 2-celled or falsely 

 4-celled; styles 2, terminal, filiform; stigmas dilated. Drupe fleshy, globose, 

 containing 4 hard nutlets. [Commemorates Ce.sar de Eochefort, a French 

 naturalist of the seventeenth century.] About 8 spijcies, natives ©f the West 

 Indies and northern South America. Type species: JSochefortia cuneata Sw. 



1. Kochefortia bahamensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 5: 317. 1907. 



A shrub or small tree up to 4 m. high, with a trunk 6 dim. thick, the bark 

 scaly, the branches spreading, the twigs gray-green, flexuous,, sometimes with 

 spines 4^6 mm. long at the nodes. Toung foliage sparingly puberulent, soon 

 glabrous; leaves coriaceous, obovate to orbicular, 2-6 em. li»g, obtuse or 

 emarginate at the apex, obtuse to euneate at the base, the midvt'iin prominent, 

 the few lateral veins inconspicuous, the upper surface dark-green and dull or 

 faintly shining, the under surface somewhat lighter green, the ptitioles 2-10 

 mm. long, green or yellowish; cymes axillary, 2-4-flowered, their' peduncles 

 pubescent, 5 mm. long or less ; calyx sparingly pubescent, oboonic, ab'Out 4 mm. 

 long, its 5 lobes nearly orbicular, ciliate; corolla greenish- white, 6 riim. long, 

 cleft to about the middle, its lobes oblong, obtuse; filaments about as' long as 

 the anthers; ovary ovoid, about 3 mm. long, the two styles erect or a little 

 incurved. 



Scrub-lands anc3 rocky coppices, Watling's, Crooked, Acklin's and F.prtune 

 Islands. Endemic. Bahama Rochefoetia. : 



Cordia gerascanthoides Kuuth, referred to by DoUey as Bahamian, has not .been 

 found by us in the archipelago. The record is, presumably, erroneous. 



Cordia alba (Jacq. ) R. & S. is doubtfully recorded as Bahamian by Urban (Syfcib. 

 Ant. 4 : 516) from his examination of a barren specimen, which proves to be Sehesi^en 

 Sebestena. t 



Family 6. BORAGINACEAE Lindl. 



Borage Family. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or verticillate, 

 estipulate, mostly entire and hispid, pubescent, scabrous or setose. Flow- 

 ers perfect, usually regular, in one-sided seorpioid spikes, racemes, cymes, 

 or sometimes scattered. Calyx inferior, mostly 5-lobed, 5-cleft, or 5-parted, 

 usually persistent. Corolla gamopetalous, mostly reg^ular and 5-lobed, 

 rarely irregular. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and alternate with 

 them, inserted on the tube or throat ; anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally 

 dehiscent. Disk commonly inconspicuous. Ovary superior, of 2, 2-ovuled 

 carpels, entire, or the carpels commonly deeply 2-lobed, making it appear 

 as of 4, 1-ovuled carpels; style simple, entire or 2-oleft; ovules anatropous 

 or amphitropous. Fruit mostly of 4, 1-seeded nutlets, or of 2, 2-seeded 

 carpels. Endosperm fleshy, copious, or none; cotyledons mostly .flat or 

 plano-convex; radicle short. About 85 genera and 1,500 species, of wide 

 distribution. 



Fruit drupaceous. 



Fruit hollowed at base ; coastal canescent shrub. 1. Monotonia. 



Fruit not hollowed at base; Bahama species vines. 2. Tournefvrtia 



Fruit separating Into nutlets. 3. Heliotropium. 



