BORAGINACEAE 393 



120. BORAGINACEAE » (Borage or Anonang Family) 



/ / Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, mostly entire, simple, stipules 

 none. Inflorescence mostly^ terminal, of forked, scorpoid cymes, sometimes 

 spike-like, or corymbose. Flowers perfect. Calyx inferior, subentire, or 

 6-, rarely 4- to 8-lobed or toothed, usually persistent. Corolla tubular, 

 4- to 8-, mostly 6-lobed. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, alternate 

 with the lobes, inserted on the tube. Ovary superior, 2-celled, 2-ovuled, 

 or 4-celled, 1-ovuled; style terminal or from between the ovary-lobes. 

 Fruit a small drupe or divided into 2 or 4 nutlets. 



Genera 85, species more than 1,200 in most parts of t"he world, 10 genera 

 and 21 species in the Philippines. 



I. Shrubs, trees, or climbing vines. 

 2. Erect shrubs or trees. 



3. Styles single, twice forked 1. Cordia 



3. Styles 2, or single and 2-lobed '. 2. Ehretia 



2. Scandent 3. Toumefortia 



1. Herbs. 



2. Inflorescence scorpoid 4. Heliotropium 



2. Inflorescence not scorpoid. 

 S. Erect, branch<;d, the flowers of medium size in open leafy racemes 



or panicles '. _ 5. Trichodeema 



3. Prostrate, spreading, the flowers small, axillary, solitary or in very 

 short spikes 6. Coldenia 



1. CORDIA Linnaeus 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, often repand or undulate. 

 Flowers in terminal dichotomous corymbs, ebracteate, polygamous, those 

 with perfect flowers smaller than those with male ones. Calyx tubular or 

 bell-shaped, teeth short, <)|ften irregular, in fruit accrescent and persistent. - 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, 4- to 8-lobed, the lobes spreading, white or yellow. 

 Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes; filaments often hairy at the base. 

 Ovary 4-celled, glabrous ; style bipartite, the arms again cleft. Drupe ovoid 

 - - or ellipsoid, stone bony, 1- to 4-celled, usually only 1 cell with a seed. (In 

 honor of E. Cordus, an early German botanist.) 



Species about 180, in all tropical countries, 3 in the Philippines. 



1. C. myxa L. (C hlancoi Vid.)). Anonang (Tag.) 



A tree 5 to 10 m high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves i)vate to oblong- 

 ovate or elliptic-ovate, 6 to 15 cm long, entire or somewhat undulate-repand, 

 shortly blunt-acuminate, base acute, or subcordate-rounded. Inflorescence 

 corymbose, axillary and terminating short lateral branches, lax, 5 to 10 

 cm long. Flowers white or yellowish-white, sessile, about 7 mm long. 

 Calyx ovoid. Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx, the lobes spreading, 

 throat and stamens villous, the lobes refleXed. Drupe ovoid, yellowish- 

 white, 10 to 13 mm long, pulp rather scanty, stone hard, the persistent 

 calyx broadly funnel-shaped, enlarged, about 8 mm in diameter. (Fl. Filip.. 

 pi. US, C. sebestena.) 



In thickets, Pasay, etc., fl. Apr .-June; widely distributed in the Philip- 

 pines. India to Malaya. , 



' For a considerati9n of all the known Philippine species of this family 

 see Robinson, C. B., "Philippine Boraginaceafe." Philip. Joum. Sd. 4, 

 (1909) Bot. 687-698. 



