Nolanacee— Nolana., 319 
N. atriplicifolia, paradéaa, and lanceolata are closely allied 
species or perhaps varieties ; the first, having white, blue, and 
yellow, or wholly white flowers, is the best. 
Orpen LXXVIL—BORRAGINACEZ. 
Herbaceous or suffruticose plants having terete stems and 
alternate simple exstipulate usually scabrid leaves. Flowers 
regular or irregular, in gyrate spikes, racemes or cymes, rarely 
solitary and axillary. Calyx persistent, 4~ or 5-lobed, valvate 
in bud. Corolla of various forms, usually 5-lobed, with an im- 
bricate estivation, the throat often furnished with hairs or 
scales opposite the lobes. Stamens equalling the corolla-lobes 
in number and alternate with them. Fruit of 4 indehiscent 
l-seeded distinct nuts, or rarely of two 2-celled nuts; seeds 
separable from the pericarp, usually destitute of albumen. This 
is an extensive order, comprising 50 genera and 600 species, 
distributed all over the globe, and especially abundant in the 
Mediterranean region. 
1. CERINTHE. 
A small European genus remarkable for the smooth glaucous 
stem-clasping foliage of its species. They are with one or two 
exceptions of annual duration. The flowers are in one-sided 
leafy racemes, yellow or yellow and purplish violet. Corolla 
tubular; throat naked. Anthers sagittate, cohering at the 
pase. But the principal distinctive character is in the fruit, 
which is composed of 2 free 2-celled nuts. The name is from 
«npos, Wax, and dvos, a flower, in allusion to the fondness of 
bees for these flowers, and hence the English name Honey- 
wort. 
1. C. méjor.—A branching annual about a foot high. Leaves 
glaucous, oval, stem-clasping, minutely toothed and clothed 
with rough white tubercles. Corolla pale yellow, violet and 
yellow, or dull violet, constricted at the mouth and shortly 5- 
toothed, the teeth reflexed. 
C. minor is of smaller growth, with similar auricled leaves and 
smaller yellow flowers, sometimes with 5 brownish spots. Corolla 
divided about a third of the length into 5 subulate erect teeth. 
C. retérta has yellow and brown flowers with a curved corolla, 
and the leaves covered with silvery blotches. 
