BOBEAGINACEa:. (bORRAGE FAMILY.) 83 



1. E. penduliflora, Benth. A span to a foot high; somewhat viscid; leaves piniu- 

 tifid; pedicels filiform, abont half an inch long, equaling the nodding corolla. 



5. ROMANZOFPIA, 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. ERIODICTTON, Benth. 



Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla fuimel-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. E. glntinosiiin, Benth, (Mountain Bauu, or JTebba Santa.) Smooth, glu- 

 tinous with a resinous exudation, 3 to 5 ft. high; leaves /auceolate, 3 to 6 inches long; 

 cymes in a naked panicle; corolla tubular, funnel-form, violet or nearly white, half an 

 inch long. 



E. tomeniosum, Benttu, grows farther down the coast. It Is larger with sioaUer almost salTer-fonn 

 Sowers; densely villous. 



Order 40. BORRAGINACE^. 



Mostly roughly pubescent herbs, with alternate entire leaves without stipules, scor- 

 pioid inflorescence, and perfectly regular 5-androu3 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 a 5-lobed limb commonly imbricated in the bud. 

 Stamens distinct, inserted in the tube or throat of t tie 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. 



* I'ruit not prickly. 



CoroUa with plaited sinuses; stigma sessil'i Heliotropium. 1 



Corolla yellow. Bristly-hispid plants Amsinckia. 2 



CoroUa white Eritrichium. 3 



* * The nutlets prickly, bur-like. 



Flowers sky-blue (rarely white) in bracteate racemes Echinospermuzo. 4 



Flower purple, blue and violet in a pedunoled raceme. Cynoglossum. 5 



Flowers minute; nutlets winged, or boat-shaped Pectocarya. 6 



