84 BORRAGINACEH. (BORRAGE FAMILY.) 
1. HELIOTROPIUM, Tourn. 
Corolla with plaited sinuses. Filaments short or none; anthers connivent and some 
times cohering. Style entire or none; stigma a fleshy ring or the edge of a peltate or 
umbrella-shaped disk. Fruit dry, splitting into 4 nutlets. 
1. H. Curassavicum, L. A smooth and somewhat glaucous succulent herb with 
spreading or prostrate stems; leaves oblanceolate, an inch or two long; flowers crowded, 
white or blue; stigma sessile, flat-topped. Blackens in drying. 
2. AMSINCKIA, Lehm. 
Corolla salver-form, or somewhat funnel-form, more or less plaited in the bud at the 
sinuses, with the tube exceeding the calyx, lobes rounded. Filaments short. Style fili- 
form; stigma capitate-2-lobed. Nutlets ovate-triangular. . Hispid annuals with oblong- 
ovate to linear leaves, and yellow flowers in at length loose scorpioid spikes or racemes, 
without bracts, except sometimes the lowest. 
* Nutlets rough, the back convex. 
1, A. spectabilis, Fisch. & Mey. Erect, a span to a foot high; leaves mostly linear; 
tube of the bright orange-yellow corolla, two or three times the length of the linear, 
rusty-hispid calyx, nearly half an inch long; the throat enlarged, and the expanded limb 
a third to half an inch in diameter. 
2, <A. intermedia, Fisch. & Mey. Erect, usually a foot or two high; leaves linear 
or only the lower lanceolate; corolla bright yellow, 3 or 4 lines long; its tube a little 
surpassing the calyx-lobes; the limb 2 or 3 lines in diameter. 
3. A. lycopsoides, Lehm. Loosely branched, soon spreading, sometimes decum- 
bent, sparsely hispid with bristles, which on the leaves have conspicuous pustulate bases; 
leaves from lanceolate to ovate, the margins usually undulate; upper flowers mostly 
bractless; corolla light yellow, about 4 lines long; the throat little enlarged; the limb 2 
or 3 linesin diameter. Passes into 
Var. bracteosa, Gr., a smaller-flowered decumbent form, with most of the flowers 
bracteate. . 
** Nutlets nearly flat on the back, coarsely granulate. 
4, A, tessellata, Gr. About a foot high, rather stout, coarsely hispid, the bris- 
tles of the calyx rusty; corolla orange-yellow, 3 or 4 lines long, the throat plaited, the 
tube rather longer than the obtuse calyx-lobes; nutlets broadly ovate, thickly covered 
with warty granulations closely fitting like the blocks of a pavement. 
*** Nutlets at maturity, whitish, smooth and polished. 
5. A. vernicosa, Hook & Arn. Sparsely bristly; leaves linear to ovate-lanceolate; 
corolla light yellow, 4 or 5 lines long, and the limb narrow; nutlets shaped like a graim 
of buckwheat. 
