BORRAGINACEZ. (BORRAGE FAMILY.) 83 
1. E. penduliflora, Benth. A span to a foot high; somewhat viscid; leaves pinna- 
tifid; pedicels filiform, abont half an inch long, equaling the nodding corolla. 
5, ROMANZOFFIA, Cham. 
Stamens unequal; style filiform. Low perennial herbs, with the aspect of saxifrages; 
the leaves mainly radical, round-cordate, or reniform, crenately 7-11-lobed, long petioled. 
1. R. Sitchensis, Bong. Scapes weak, a span long, bearing several pink or pur- 
ple, varying to white flowers; corolla veiny. 
6 ERIODICTYON, Benth. 
Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla funnel-form to salver-form. Stamens included.—Low 
shrubs; the leaves alternate, of rigid coriaceous texture, the finely reticulated veinleta 
conspicuous on a fine woolly ground, at least underneath, their margins beset with rigid 
teeth. 
1, &. glutinosum, Benth. (Movunrarn Bato, or YerBa Santa.) Smooth, glu- 
tinous with a resinous exudation, 3 to 5 ft. high; leaves ranceolate, 3 to 6 inches long; 
cymes in a naked panicle; corolla tubular, funnel-form, violet or nearly white, half an 
inch long. 
E. tomentosum, Benth., grows farther down the coast. It is larger with smaller almost salver-form 
flowers; densely villous. 
Oxzprer 40. BORRAGINACEZ:, 
Mostly roughly pubescent herbs, with alternate entire leaves without stipules, scor- 
pioid inflorescence, and perfectly regular 5-androus flowers; the ovary of 4 lobes or 
divisions around a central style, ripening into seed-like nutlets. Calyx free, 5-parted 
or 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla with 4 5-lobed limb commonly imbricated in the bud. 
Stamens distinct, inserted in the tube or throat of ihe corolla alternate with its lobes. 
The one-sided and coiled apparent spikes or racemes straighten as the blossoms develop. 
All our species except the first belong to the true Borrage Tribe, 
* Fruit not prickly. 
Corolla with plaited sinuses; stigma sessila............22 sees eeeeee Heliotropium. 1 
Corolla yellow. Bristly-hispid plants............. seseecceseeeeeees Amsinckia. 2 
Corolla white isis cso -o1os steesinnsistaratasaiciie cenhesieesinisess a) Walsp eiapemeieeeeies Eritrichium. 3 
** The nutlets prickly, bur-like. 
Flowers sky-blue (rarely white) in bracteate racemes............ Echinospermum. 4 
Flower purple, blue and violet in a peduncled raceme. .............. Cynoglossum. 5 
Flowers minute; nutlets winged, or boat-shaped...................4- Pectocarya. 6 
